Lester B. Pearson

“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.”

“There are few, if any, Canadian problems which can be solved alone by Canadians.”

“There can be no peace in the world until there is peace in the minds of men.”

“My own government, if it had been given the opportunity, would have been the first to give the Communists diplomatic recognition.”

“Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable — the art of the next best.”

“International policy is a matter of joining a club and paying the fees.”

“We are now at the point where we must decide whether we are to be Cains, fearsome and hated, or whether we are to be Abel's, loved and slain.”