"The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies."
-Lester B. Pearson
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"As a soldier, I survived World War I when most of my comrades did not."
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"It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war."
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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
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"True there has been more talk of peace since 1945 than, I should think, at any other time in history. At least we hear more and read more about it because man's words, for good or ill, can now so easily reach the millions."
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"The choice, however, is as clear now for nations as it was once for the individual: peace or extinction."
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