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Danh ngôn của Lester B. Pearson (Sứ mệnh: 7)

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
I am grateful for the opportunities I have been given to participate in that work as a representative of my country, Canada, whose people have, I think, shown their devotion to peace.
I cannot think of anything more difficult than to say something which would be worthy of this impressive and, for me, memorable occasion, and of the ideals and purposes which inspired the Nobel Peace Award.
It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war.
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.
The choice, however, is as clear now for nations as it was once for the individual: peace or extinction.
The stark and inescapable fact is that today we cannot defend our society by war since total war is total destruction, and if war is used as an instrument of policy, eventually we will have total war.
The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.