John Foster Dulles Quotes

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• Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence.
• The United States of America does not have friends; it has interests.
• You have to take chances for peace, just as you must take chances in war. Some say that we were brought to the verge of…
• Peace can be a cover whereby evil men can perpetrate diabolical wrongs.
• Our capacity to retaliate must be, and is, massive in order to deter all forms of aggression
• Once - many, many years ago - I thought I made a wrong decision. Of course, it turned out that I had been right all…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• The U.S. has no friends, only interests.
• I am aware how almost impossible it is in this country to carry out a foreign policy not approved by the Jews.
• 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.…
• 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…
• 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…
• I hope the day will never come when the American nation will be the champion of the status quo. Once that happens, we shall have…
• A capacity to change is indispensable. Equally indispensable is the capacity to hold fast to that which is good.
• Local defense will always be important. But there is no local defense which alone will contain the mighty land power of the Communist world. Local…
• Somehow we find it hard to sell our values, namely that the rich should plunder the poor.
• 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…

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