Lester Bowles Pearson citations

Lester Bowles Pearson, dit Mike Pearson, né le 23 avril 1897 à Newtonbrook et mort le 27 décembre 1972 à Ottawa, est un diplomate et homme d'État canadien. Lauréat du prix Nobel de la paix en 1957, il est Premier ministre du Canada du 22 avril 1963 au 20 avril 1968, dirigeant deux gouvernements minoritaires successifs suivant les élections de 1963 et 1965.

Les cabinets de Pearson instaurent l'accès universel aux soins de santé, les prêts aux étudiants, le bilinguisme officiel, le régime universel de pensions et le drapeau du Canada. Combiné à son travail innovateur à l'Organisation des Nations unies et en diplomatie, Pearson peut être considéré comme l'un des Canadiens les plus influents du XXe siècle. Wikipedia  

✵ 23. avril 1897 – 27. décembre 1972
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Lester Bowles Pearson: Citations en anglais

“Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.”

As quoted in a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation tribute (1972), and in Chambers Dictionary of Political Biography‎ (1991) by John Ransley, p. 345

“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 leaders, did not expect any serious division in the House of Commons over our policies on Suez. However, bitter division there was, and we were condemned strongly for deserting our two mother countries. The Conservative attack was led by Howard Green (who in June 1959 was to become Secretary of State for External Affairs). Green accused us of being the "chore boy" of the United States, of being a better friend to Nasser than to Britain and France, and claimed that our government "by its actions in the Suez crisis, has made this month of November 1956, the most disgraceful period for Canada in the history of this nation," and that it was "high time Canada had a government which will not knife Canada's best friends in the back." Any feeling of exaltation and conceit or euphoria at our success in avoiding a general war in the Middle East (if in fact we had avoided it by our actions) was dissipated for me by the vigour of the assaults on my conduct, my wisdom, my rectitude, my integrity, and my everything else by an embattled Conservative Opposition. It was a very vigorous debate reflected in the general election of the next year. But I have always believed, and I think the great weight of Canadian opinion strongly approved what we had done. Further, I am absolutely certain and will remain certain in my own mind that the New Commonwealth would have soon shattered over the issue had the British not backed down.”

Memoirs, Volume Two

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

Memoirs, Volume Two
Source: NB: ghost-written post-mortem by Munro and Inglis

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