Quotes by John Foster Dulles

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with,...

#Success

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

#Government

The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary...

#Ability

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

#Humanity, #Peace, #War

There are plenty of problems in the world, many of them interconnected. But there is...

#Problems

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

#John Foster Dulles

The United Nations was not set up to be a reformatory. It was assumed that...

#John Foster Dulles

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

#John Foster Dulles

Once - many, many years ago - I thought I made a wrong decision. Of...

#John Foster Dulles

Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only...

#John Foster Dulles

I wouldn't attach too much importance to these student riots. I remember when I was...

#John Foster Dulles

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

#John Foster Dulles