John Foster Dulles Quotes


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.


Citations

Dulles, John Foster. War or Peace. Macmillan, 1950, p. 268.

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John Foster Dulles
John Foster Dulles
  • Born: February 25, 1888
  • Died: May 24, 1959
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Public Servant

John Foster Dulles was an American diplomat, lawyer, and Republican politician. He served as United States Secretary of State under President Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 to 1959 and was briefly a U.S. Senator for New York in 1949. He was a significant figure in the early Cold War era, advocating an aggressive stance against communism throughout the world.