John Foster Dulles Quotes & Sayings
12 most famous John Foster Dulles quotes and sayings (public servant). These are the first 10 quotes we have.
“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 go out and riot occasionally.”
“We walked to the brink and we looked it in the face.”
“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.”
“A man's accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention to detail.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Our capacity to retaliate must be, and is, massive in order to deter all forms of aggression.”
“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.”
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