8 Quotes & Sayings By John Foster Dulles

John Foster Dulles was the first Secretary of State to be fired from his position. He was also the first Secretary of State to have been recommended for the position by a President from his own party. His tenure as Secretary of State was brief, only a few months.

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The principle of neutrality ... has increasingly become an obsolete conception and except under very special circumstances it is an immoral and shortsighted conception. John Foster Dulles
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If you are scared to go to the brink you are lost. John Foster Dulles
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The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. John Foster Dulles
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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. John Foster Dulles
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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. John Foster Dulles
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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. John Foster Dulles
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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. John Foster Dulles