Lester Pearson
Lester Pearson
Lester Bowles "Mike" Pearson OM CC OBE PC PCwas a Canadian scholar, statesman, soldier and diplomat, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1957 for organizing the United Nations Emergency Force to resolve the Suez Canal Crisis. He was the 14th Prime Minister of Canada from 22 April 1963 to 20 April 1968, as the head of two back-to-back Liberal minority governments following elections in 1963 and 1965...
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth23 April 1897
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Whatever it is that leads men to fight and suffer, to face mutilation and death, the motive is not now self-interest in any material sense.
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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.
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We have achieved the most amazing things, a few million people opening up half a continent. But we have not yet found a Canadian soul except in time of war.
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During my lifetime greater and more spectacular progress has been made in the physical sciences than in many centuries that preceded it.
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Nevertheless, defense by power as a first obligation on a state has to be considered in relation to things other than economics.
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It is already difficult to realize that a mere twenty years ago poverty was taken almost for granted over most of the earth's surface.
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Our problem, then, so easy to state, so hard to solve, is how to bring about a creative peace and a security which will have a strong foundation.