John Foster Dulles quotes and words of wisdom

"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."
Found in the topic Unsorted.

"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."
Found in the topic War.

"The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it"s the same problem you had last year."
Found in the topic Success.

"You have to take chances for peace, just as you take chances in war. The ability to get to the verge without getting into 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."
Found in the topic Peace.

Interesting Quotes

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.Charles de Montesquieu - French lawyer & philosopher (1689 - 1755)

All great truths begin as blasphemies.George Bernard Shaw - Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)