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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,

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”

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. It depends on the relations of a people to their God. It is the churches to which we must look to develop the resources for the great moral offensive that is required to make human rights secure, and to win a just and lasting peace.

John Foster Dulles
Peace, Military, Winning
John Foster Dulles (1960). “The Spiritual Legacy of John Foster Dulles: Selections from His Articles and Addresses”, Philadelphia : Westminister Press

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

John Foster Dulles
War, Victory, Faces
Quoted in Life, 16 Jan. 1956

If you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.

John Foster Dulles
Encouraging, Scared, Arms Race
In 'Life' 16 January 1956

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 create the conditions which will make possible a more highly developed organization.

John Foster Dulles
Organization, Order, Tasks
John Foster Dulles (1957). “War Or Peace”

Peace will never be won if men reserve for war their greatest efforts, Peace, too, requires well-directed and sustained sacrificial endeavor. Given that, we can, I believe, achieve the great goal of our foreign policy, that of enabling our people to enjoy in peace the blessings of liberty.

John Foster Dulles
War, Believe, Blessing
John Foster Dulles' statement at the news conference (December 31, 1954), as quoted in "Department of State Bulletin" (p. 44), January 10, 1955.

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

John Foster Dulles
Running, Art, War
In Life 16 Jan. 1956

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.

John Foster Dulles
Paris, History, Too Much

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 that being in would make you good

John Foster Dulles
Would Be, Be Good, United Nations

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