Author: John Foster Dulles

Quotes

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.

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

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.

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.

- John Foster Dulles

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.

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.

- John Foster Dulles

Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence.

Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence.

- John Foster Dulles

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.

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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