John Foster Dulles Quotes

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

  John Foster Dulles

  America, United States, Doe

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• The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.

  John Foster Dulles

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

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• 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

  Peace, War, Sacrifice

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

  John Foster Dulles

  Motivational, Men, Details

  "Trump's Secretary of State pick: What every American should know about Rex Tillerson" by Robert Charles, www.foxnews.com. December 13, 2016.

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• A peaceful world is a world in which differences are tolerated, and are not eliminated by violence.

  John Foster Dulles

  Differences, Peaceful, Violence

  John Foster Dulles (1957). “War Or Peace”

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

  John Foster Dulles

  Rich, Poor, Should

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• 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 war. Of course we were brought to the verge of war. 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 you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost. We've had to look it square in the face... We walked to the brink and we looked it in the face. We took strong action.

  John Foster Dulles

  Running, Art, Strong

  In Life 16 Jan. 1956

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• 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 defense must be reinforced by the further deterrent of massive retaliatory power.

  John Foster Dulles

  Land, Important, Defense

  John Foster Dulles (1954). “Evolution of Foreign Policy: Text of Speech by John Foster Dulles Secretary of State Before the Council on Foreign Relations, New York, N.Y., January 12, 1954”

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

  John Foster Dulles

  Men, Evil, Evil Man

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

  John Foster Dulles

  Government, Citizens, Violence

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• The Soviets sought not a place in the sun, but the sun itself. Their objective was the world. They would not tolerate compromise on goals, only on tactics.

  John Foster Dulles

  Goal, Tactics, World

  Comment to his brother Allen. Quoted in Peter Grose Gentleman Spy (1994).

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• I am aware how almost impossible it is in this country to carry out a foreign policy not approved by the Jews.

  John Foster Dulles

  Country, Impossible, Foreign Policy

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• In order to bring a nation to support the burdens incident to 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 or of internal conditions rendered intolerable by the unjust restraints of foreign nations. 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 the duty of sacrifice.

  John Foster Dulles

  Military, War, Hero

  "War, Peace and Change".

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• 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

  Commitment, Special, Principles

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• Our capacity to retaliate must be, and is, massive in order to deter all forms of aggression

  John Foster Dulles

  Order, Form, Capacity

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• The mark of a successful organization isn't whether or not it has problems, its whether it has the same problems it had last year.

  John Foster Dulles

  Success, Business, Organization

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• A capacity to change is indispensable. Equally indispensable is the capacity to hold fast to that which is good.

  John Foster Dulles

  Equality, Capacity, Indispensable

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• Once - many, many years ago - I thought I made a wrong decision. Of course, it turned out that I had been right all along. But I was wrong to have thought that I was wrong

  John Foster Dulles

  Years, Decision, Made

  Quoted in Henri Temuanka, Facing the Music (1973)

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• I'm making progress if today's problems are different from yesterday's.

  John Foster Dulles

  Yesterday, Progress, Different

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• Forgive everybody everything everyday.

  John Foster Dulles

  Forgiving, Everyday

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• 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 forfeited, and rightly forfeited, the support of the unsatisfied, of those who are the victims of inevitable imperfections, of those who, young in years or spirit, believe that they can make a better world and of those who dream dreams and want to make their dreams to come true.

  John Foster Dulles

  Dream, Believe, Years

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

  John Foster Dulles

  Birth, Institutions

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• The U.S. has no friends, only interests.

  John Foster Dulles

  No Friends, Interest

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• 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 saving the human race from extinction

  John Foster Dulles

  Race, World, Saving

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• Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize the potentialities, particularly the moral and spiritual potentialities, which we usually reserve for war.

  John Foster Dulles

  Spiritual, Peace, War

  John Foster Dulles (1957). “War Or Peace”

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