List of John Foster Dulles Quotes

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

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.

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.

If You Are Scared To Go To The Brink, You Are Lost.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Peace Can Be A Cover Whereby Evil Men Can Perpetrate Diabolical Wrongs.

I Am Aware How Almost Impossible It Is In This Country To Carry Out A Foreign Policy Not Approved By The Jews.

We Walked To The Brink And We Looked It In The Face.