I'll tell you what leadership is. It's persuasion and conciliation, and education, and patience.

The quest for peace is the statesman's most exacting duty... Practical progress to lasting peace is his fondest hope.

For all that we cherish and justly desire - for ourselves or for our children - the securing of peace is the first requisite.

A preventive war, to my mind, is an impossibility today. How could you have one if one of its features would be several cities lying in ruins, several cities where many, many thousands of people would be dead and injured and mangled, the transportation systems destroyed, sanitation implements and systems all gone? That isn't preventive war; that is war.

The purpose is clear. It is safety with solvency. The country is entitled to both.

You, of Canada, are building a magnificent record of achievement. My country rejoices in it.

I shall make that trip. I shall go to Korea.