Lester B. Pearson

"When I came back to Ottawa I found myself faced with a very difficult parliamentary situation... I think it is fair to say that Mr St Laurent, on the basis of private discussions with the Opposition l…"

"One of the interesting byways in this whole situation was the conviction expressed when the Users' Association was created and the principles established for the international operation of the canal. …"

"My own views began to change before the next Nazi move, the occupation of Austria in 1938.... No longer was it possible for me to believe that Nazism was a temporary aberration in German politics, tha…"

"Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects."

"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 co…"

"This was not enough for a minority now demanding much sterner action to meet the Nazi threat. At the head of this group was Winston Churchill. His prestige, however, after his stand during the abdicat…"

"Nothing, I suppose, could better demonstrate than the Suez crisis the extent to which the United Nations had remained a central factor in our foreign policy. Our problem was, and is, one of long stand…"

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