JOHN FOSTER DULLES

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

You should not expect to find a big U. S. market for your goods because Japan does not make the things Americans want.

Mrs. Roosevelt is more subversive and dangerous than Moscow.

We are pursuing what I trust is a correct course from the point of international law, and we are not intervening in the internal affairs of this country …

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

Peace will never be won if men reserve for war their greatest efforts.

The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is a necessary art …. If you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.

Am deeply disappointed. Your campaign had dignity and elevation and was in the best American tradition. I am rather frightened by the influences which prevented it from succeeding.

Foreign Aid is like opium. There are withdrawal pains if you remove it.

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

Local defenses must be reinforced by the further deterrent of massive retaliatory power.

Jesus teaches us that nothing is unforgivable.

One of the great advances of our time is the recognition that one of the ways to prevent war is to deter it by having the will and the capacity to use force to punish the aggressor.

Resistance to Communism needs popular support.

... that shirt salesman from Kansas City.

The policy of the United States does not flow from transitory considerations.

There isn't any rule in diplomacy that can't be broken.... There are times when diplomatic principles should be violated, but when you violate them you ought to know you're violating them.