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Lester B. Pearson

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A great gulf, however, has been opened between man's material advance and his social and moral progress, a gulf in which he may one day be lost if it is not closed or narrowed.


— Lester B. Pearson


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The choice, however, is as clear now for nations as it was once for the individual: peace or extinction.


— Lester B. Pearson


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The scientific and technological discoveries that have made war so infinitely more terrible for us are part of the same process that has knit us all so much more closely together.


— Lester B. Pearson


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The stark and inescapable fact is that today we cannot defend our society by war since total war is total destruction, and if war is used as an instrument of policy, eventually we will have total war.


— Lester B. Pearson


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Today continuing poverty and distress are a deeper and more important cause of international tensions, of the conditions that can produce war, than previously.


— Lester B. Pearson


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Today the predatory state, or the predatory group of states, with power of total destruction, is no more to be tolerated than the predatory individual.


— Lester B. Pearson


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We are all descendants of Adam, and we are all products of racial miscegenation.


— Lester B. Pearson


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We must keep on trying to solve problems, one by one, stage by stage, if not on the basis of confidence and cooperation, at least on that of mutual toleration and self-interest.


— Lester B. Pearson


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When you're special to a cat, you're special indeed, she brings to you the gift of her preference of you, the sight of you, the sound of your voice, the touch of your hand.


— Lester B. Pearson


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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.


— Lester B. Pearson


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This document laid out a plan to merge the Royal Canadian Navy the Royal Canadian Air Force and the Canadian Army to form a single service called the Canadian Armed Forces. Pearson Park in St. Early political career

In 1948 Prime Minister Louis St.

In 1967 his government passed Bill C-168 de facto abolishing capital punishment in Canada (by restricting it to a few capital offenses for which it was never used and which themselves were aboliLester B. Pearsond in 1976). During Pearson's time as Prime Minister his minority government introduced universal health care student loans the Canada Pension Plan the Order of Canada and the current Canadian flag.

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