John Foster Dulles Quotes

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

The principle of neutrality ... has increasingly become an obsolete conception, and, except under very special circumstances, it is an immoral and shortsighted conception.

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

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.

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

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

Forgive everybody everything everyday.

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

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

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

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.

Freedom & Duty always go hand in hand and if the free do not accept the duty of social responsibility, they will not long remain free.

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