Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence. — John Foster Dulles Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The United States of America does not have friends; it has interests. — John Foster Dulles Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 to which we must look to develop the resources for the great moral offensive that is required to make human… — 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 Image
Somehow we find it hard to sell our values, namely that the rich should plunder the poor. — John Foster Dulles Copy Share Image
Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence. — John Foster Dulles Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
Peace can be a cover whereby evil men can perpetrate diabolical wrongs. — John Foster Dulles Copy Share Image
Our institutions of freedom will not survive unless they are constantly replenished by the faith that gave them birth. — John Foster Dulles Copy Share Image
In order to bring a nation to support the burdens of maintaining great military establishments, it is necessary to create an emotional state akin to war psychology. There must be the portrayal of an external menace. This involves the development to a high degree of the nation-hero, nation-villain ideology and the arousing of the population to a sense of sacrifice.… — John Foster Dulles Copy Share
