Quotes from John Foster Dulles

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

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.

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

A man's accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention to detail.

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

Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize the potentialities, particularly the moral and spiritual potentialities, which we usually reserve for war.

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.

You have to take chances for peace, just as you must take chances in war…. 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize the potentialities, particularly the moral and spiritual potentialities, which we usually reserve for war.

Of all the tasks of government, the most basic is to protect its citizens from violence.

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.

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.

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

The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities.

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.

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.

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

The mark of a successful organization isn't whether or not it has problems, its whether it has the same problems it had last year.

If you are scared to go to the brink you are lost.

A capacity to change is indispensable. Equally indispensable is the capacity to hold fast to that which is good.