Quotes of John Foster Dulles - somelinesforyou

“ Peace can be a cover whereby evil men can perpetrate diabolical wrongs. ”

- John Foster Dulles

“ The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year. ”

- John Foster Dulles

“ The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost. ”

- John Foster Dulles

“ If you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost. ”

- John Foster Dulles

“ The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost. ”

- John Foster Dulles

“ The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost. ”

- John Foster Dulles

“ If you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost. ”

- John Foster Dulles

“ The principle of neutrality… has increasingly become an obsolete conception, and, except under very special circumstances, it is an immoral and shortsighted conception. ”

- John Foster Dulles

“ The principle of neutrality… has increasingly become an obsolete conception, and, except under very special circumstances, it is an immoral and shortsighted conception. ”

- John Foster Dulles

“ Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence. ”

- John Foster Dulles

“ I wouldn't attach too much importance to these student riots. I remember when I was a student at the Sorbonne in Paris, I used to go out and riot occasionally. ”

- John Foster Dulles

“ The principle of neutrality… has increasingly become an obsolete conception, and, except under very special circumstances, it is an immoral and shortsighted conception. ”

- John Foster Dulles

“ Once — many, many years ago — I thought I made a wrong decision. Of course, it turned out that I had been right all along. But I was wrong to have thought that I was wrong. ”

- John Foster Dulles

“ Our capacity to retaliate must be, and is, massive in order to deter all forms of aggression. ”

- John Foster Dulles

“ Peace can be a cover whereby evil men can perpetrate diabolical wrongs. ”

- John Foster Dulles

“ The United Nations was not set up to be a reformatory. It was assumed that you would be good before you got in and not that being in would make you good. ”

- John Foster Dulles

“ The principle of neutrality… has increasingly become an obsolete conception, and, except under very special circumstances, it is an immoral and shortsighted conception. ”

- John Foster Dulles

“ The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year. ”

- John Foster Dulles

“ Our capacity to retaliate must be, and is, massive in order to deter all forms of aggression. ”

- John Foster Dulles

“ The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year. ”

- John Foster Dulles

“ The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith. ”

- John Foster Dulles

“ We walked to the brink and we looked it in the face. ”

- John Foster Dulles

“ Once — many, many years ago — I thought I made a wrong decision. Of course, it turned out that I had been right all along. But I was wrong to have thought that I was wrong. ”

- John Foster Dulles

“ The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith. ”

- John Foster Dulles

“ Our capacity to retaliate must be, and is, massive in order to deter all forms of aggression. ”

- John Foster Dulles

“ The measure of success is not whether you have tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year. ”

- John Foster Dulles

“ The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year. ”

- John Foster Dulles

“ There are plenty of problems in the world, many of them interconnected. But there is no problem which compares with this central, universal problem of saving the human race from extinction. ”

- John Foster Dulles

“ Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence. ”

- John Foster Dulles

“ The United Nations represents not a final stage in the development of world order, but only a primitive stage. Therefore its primary task is to create the conditions which will make possible a more highly developed organization. ”

- John Foster Dulles
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