"Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects."

"Alfred Nobel decreed that this award should be conferred on someone who, in the opinion of the Committee, should have…"

"Of all our dreams today there is none more important — or so hard to realise — than that of peace in the world. May w…"

"True there has been more talk of peace since 1945 than, I should think, at any other time in history. At least we hea…"

"Until the last great war, a general expectation of material improvement was an idea peculiar to Western man. Now war …"

"This was not enough for a minority now demanding much sterner action to meet the Nazi threat. At the head of this gro…"

"My own views began to change before the next Nazi move, the occupation of Austria in [March] 1938.... No longer was i…"

"One of the interesting byways in this whole situation (it was perhaps more than a byway) was the conviction expressed…"

"When I came back to Ottawa I found myself faced with a very difficult parliamentary situation... I think it is fair t…"

"Nothing, I suppose, could better demonstrate than the Suez crisis the extent to which the United Nations had remained…"