John Foster Dulles Quotes

Of all our dreams today there is none more important - or so hard to realise - than that of peace in the world. May we never lose our faith in it or our resolve to do everything that can be done to convert it one day into reality.

Peace is much more precious than a piece of land... let there be no more wars.

Nothing is more precious than peace, by which all war, both in Heaven and Earth, is brought to an end.

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.

But when will our leaders learn - war is not the answer.

If peace cannot be maintained with honour, it is no longer peace.

You don't have to have fought in a war to love peace.

All we are saying is give peace a chance.

Peace is a fragile thing. It takes courage to secure it. It takes wisdom to maintain it.

Alliance does not mean love, any more than war means hate.

We all want a world without war, without conflict, without human suffering.

Let me just say: Peace to you, if you're willing to fight for it.

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.

War is never a lasting solution for any problem.

It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

A war can perhaps be won single-handedly. But peace - lasting peace - cannot be secured without the support of all.

War is not the quintessential emergency in which man has to prove himself, as my generation learned at its school desks in the days of the Kaiser; rather, peace is the emergency in which we all have to prove ourselves.

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

We want peace, but not at any price.

We will not have peace by afterthought.

There are two traditions in Northern Ireland. There are two main religious denominations. But there is only one true moral denomination. And it wants peace.

Smoke the pipe of peace, bury the tomahawk, and become one nation.

We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.

I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace.

Let us have peace.