Lester B. Pearson

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.

Every state has not only the right but the duty to make adequate provision for its own defense in the way it thinks best, providing it does not do so at the expense of any other state.

The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.

Violence is not a constitutionally protected right. Damaging property is not a constitutionally protected right; inciting violence is not a constitutionally protected right.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

The government has once again made the right socially acceptable.