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

— Lester B. Pearson

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

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14th Prime Minister of Canada 1897–1972

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