John Foster Dulles
Public Servant
1888-02-25
Books by John Foster Dulles
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War or peace
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War, peace and change
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The church's opportunities in world affairs
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Quotes by John Foster Dulles
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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.
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The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.
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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.
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Our nation was founded as an experiment in human liberty. Its institutions reflect the belief of our founders that men had their origin and destiny in God; that they were endowed by Him with inalienable rights and had duties prescribed by moral law, and that human institutions ought primarily to help men develop their God-given possibilities.
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The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities.
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