Circumstances Quotes by John Foster Dulles

The United States of America does not have friends; it has interests.

— 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 United Nations was not set up to be a reformatory. It was assumed that you would be good before you got in and…

— John Foster Dulles

Economic and military power can be developed under the spur of laws and appropriations. But moral power does not derive from any act of…

— 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…

— John Foster Dulles

Somehow we find it hard to sell our values, namely that the rich should plunder the poor.

— John Foster Dulles

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

— 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…

— 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…

— John Foster Dulles

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

— John Foster Dulles

Our institutions of freedom will not survive unless they are constantly replenished by the faith that gave them birth.

— John Foster Dulles

In order to bring a nation to support the burdens of maintaining great military establishments, it is necessary to create an emotional state akin…

— John Foster Dulles