The Only Failures Are Those Who Fail

Diplomacy Is Letting Someone Else Have Your Way.

As We Enter Our Centennial Year We Are Still A Young Nation, Very Much In The Formative Stages. Our National Condition Is Still Flexible Enough That We Can Make Almost Anything We Wish Of Our Nation. No Other Country Is In A Better Position Than Canada To Go Ahead With The Evolution Of A National Purpose Devoted To All That Is Good And Noble And Excellent In The Human Spirit.

Not Only Did He [dean Acheson] Not Suffer Fools Gladly, He Did Not Suffer Them At All.

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 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.