John Foster Dulles Quotes

If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.

In a shrinking world, the absence of order among nations is becoming less and less tolerable.

U.S. academics and Upper East Side New Yorkers like to think of the United Nations as a place where foreign ambassadors have intellectual discussions about power and world peace.

My vision of a 'new world order' foresees a United Nations with a revitalized peacekeeping function.

My main concern is with the world order

It is not the Soviet Union or indeed any other big Powers who need the United Nations for their protection. It is all the others. In this sense, the Organization is first of all their Organization and I deeply believe in the wisdom with which they will be able to use it and guide it. I shall remain in my post during the term of my office as a servant of the Organization in the interests of all those other nations, as long as they wish me to do so.

What we need now is a Treaty of the World not a Treaty of Rome.

The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.

The United Nations is a foolish attempt at world government inspired by Satan.

We shall have world government whether or not we like it. The only question is whether World government will be achieved by conquest or consent.

The day is coming when no single nation, however powerful, can undertake by itself to keep the peace outside its borders.

I think we are realizing that we are going to have to have an international rule of law.

There is, and there will be, an increasing demand for a principled global security provider, for a superpower that believes in multilateralism and cooperation.

Out of these troubled times, our fifth objective - a New World Order - can emerge. . . Now, we can see a New World Order coming into view. A world in which there is a very real prospect for a New World Order. . .A world where the United Nations, freed from a Cold War stalemate, is poised to fulfill the historic vision of its founders.

Out of these troubled times, our fifth objective- a new world order-can emerge... We are now in sight of a United Nations that performs as envisioned by its founders.

There was an implicit conviction that the UN would be stronger than the sum of its constituent member-states.

As we have seen, the wireless and the airplane have made the world so small and nations so dependent on each other that the only alternative to war is the United States of the World.

It may surprise people to know that I advocate the reform of the United Nations, not its abolishment.

I talked about the need for American leadership, I talked about the importance of the United States to a more peaceful world, a world that has been quite turbulent in recent years, and needs a strong American anchor.

To solve the problem of organizing world peace we must establish world law and order.

Now, the United Nations is an organization that I believe was founded with good intentions. As a matter of fact, a prominent Tennessean named Cordell Hull was very involved with it.

We shouldn't discuss the world of tomorrow in terms of becoming a balance to the United States. The real issue is whether the United States will define herself as part of the U.N. system-or not.

The U.N. can be very frustrating and at times impotent, but it can also be a valuable forum for discussion and resolution of world problems. We should not walk away from it just because it's failed to live up to its promise.

Legislation that would withhold funding for the United Nations is fundamentally flawed in concept and practice, sets us back, is self-defeating, and doesn't work.

The purpose of the United Nations should be to protect the essential sovereignty of nations, large and small.