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John Foster Dulles

John Foster Dulles (/ˈdʌləs/; February 25, 1888 – May 24, 1959) was an American diplomat. A Republican, he served as United States Secretary of State under President Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 to 1959. He was a significant figure in the early Cold War era, advocating an aggressive stance against communism throughout the world.

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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.

Circumstances, Commitment, Increasingly, Obsolete, Principles, Special

Peace will never be won if men reserve for war their greatest efforts, Peace, too, requires well-directed and sustained sacrificial endeavor. Given that, we can, I believe, achieve the great goal of our foreign policy, that of enabling our people to enjoy in peace the blessings of liberty.

Believe, Men, Requires, War

A capacity to change is indispensable. Equally indispensable is the capacity to hold fast to that which is good.

Capacity, Change, Equality, Good, Hold, Indispensable

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.

History, Occasionally, Paris, Riots, Sorbonne, Too Much

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.

Peace, War, Sacrifice, Men, Faith

Freedom & Duty always go hand in hand and if the free do not accept the duty of social responsibility, they will not long remain free.

Duty, Hands, Long, Responsibility, Social

Local defense will always be important. But there is no local defense which alone will contain the mighty land power of the Communist world. Local defense must be reinforced by the further deterrent of massive retaliatory power.

Defense, Important, Land, Massive, Reinforced, World

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

Arms Race, Brink, Encouraging, Lost, Scared

We walked to the brink and we looked it in the face.

Face, Faces, Looked, Victory, Walked, War

In order to bring a nation to support the burdens of maintaining great military establishments, it is necessary to create an emotional state akin to war psychology. There must be the portrayal of an external menace. This involves the development to a high degree of the nation-hero, nation-villain ideology and the arousing of the population to a sense of sacrifice. Once these exist, we have gone a long way on the path to war.

Emotional, External, Hero, Ideology, Military, War

A peaceful world is a world in which differences are tolerated, and are not eliminated by violence.

Differences, Peaceful, Tolerated, World

The United Nations represents not a final stage in the development of world order, but only a primitive stage. Therefore its primary task is to create the conditions which will make possible a more highly developed organization.

Order, Organization, Tasks, Represents, Make

Peace can be a cover whereby evil men can perpetrate diabolical wrongs.

Cover, Evil, Evil Man, Men, Peace, Perpetrate

Once - many, many years ago - I thought I made a wrong decision. Of course, it turned out that I had been right all along. But I was wrong to have thought that I was wrong

Decision, Made, Right, Turned, Years

The Soviets sought not a place in the sun, but the sun itself. Their objective was the world. They would not tolerate compromise on goals, only on tactics.

Goal, Sought, Soviets, Sun, Tactics, World

The U. S. has no friends, only interests.

Friends, Interest, Interests, No Friends

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.

Inspirational, Inspiring, Measure, Same, Success, Tough

Forgive everybody everything everyday.

Everybody, Everyday, Everything, Forgive, Forgiving

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

Assumed, Be Good, Good, Nations, United Nations, Would Be

I hope the day will never come when the American nation will be the champion of the status quo. Once that happens, we shall have forfeited, and rightly forfeited, the support of the unsatisfied, of those who are the victims of inevitable imperfections, of those who, young in years or spirit, believe that they can make a better world and of those who dream dreams and want to make their dreams to come true.

Believe, Champion, Day, Dream, Happens, Years

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