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Of all our dreams today there is none more important — or so hard to realise — than that of peace in the world. May we never lose our faith in it or our resolve to do everything that can be done to convert it one day into reality.

— Lester B. Pearson Nobel Prize acceptance (1957)

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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation tribute (1972)

Things can be done under the incentive of terror and fear that can not be done when the fear disappears.

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