We are all descendants of Adam, and we are all products of racial miscegenation.

The scientific and technological discoveries that have made war so infinitely more terrible for us are part of the same process that has knit us all so much more closely together.

Whether we live together in confidence and cohesion; with more faith and pride in ourselves and less self-doubt and hesitation; strong in the conviction that the destiny of Canada is to unite, not divide; sharing in cooperation, not in separation or in conflict; respecting our past and welcoming our future.

And I have lived since - as you have - in a period of cold war, during which we have ensured by our achievements in the science and technology of destruction that a third act in this tragedy of war will result in the peace of extinction.

The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.

Diplomacy is letting someone else have your way.

Today continuing poverty and distress are a deeper and more important cause of international tensions, of the conditions that can produce war, than previously.