Economic and military power can be developed under the spur of laws and appropriations. But moral power does not derive from any act of Congress. It depends on the relations of a people to their God. It is the churches… — John Foster Dulles Copy Share Image
The United States of America does not have friends; it has interests. — John Foster Dulles Copy Share
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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
Somehow we find it hard to sell our values, namely that the rich should plunder the poor. — John Foster Dulles Copy Share
Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence. — John Foster Dulles Copy Share
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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
Peace can be a cover whereby evil men can perpetrate diabolical wrongs. — John Foster Dulles Copy Share
Our institutions of freedom will not survive unless they are constantly replenished by the faith that gave them birth. — John Foster Dulles Copy Share
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 Copy Share
You have to take chances for peace, just as you must take chances in war. Some say that we were brought to the verge… — John Foster Dulles Copy Share
Once - many, many years ago - I thought I made a wrong decision. Of course, it turned out that I had been right… — John Foster Dulles Copy Share
