Top 42 Dulles Quotes
#1. In the mid-1950s Winston Churchill advised his American friends to recognize that Ho Chi Minh was unbeatable, accept his victory, and try to make the best of it. This the Dulles brothers could not do - because they were Americans.
Stephen Kinzer
#2. John Foster Dulles had called on me in his capacity as Secretary of State, and he had exhausted every argument to persuade me to place Cambodia under the protection of the South East Asia Treaty Organization.
Norodom Sihanouk
#3. If you stand with the Customs and Border Protection officers who staff the passport booths at Dulles airport near the nation's capital, their task seems daunting.
David K. Shipler
#4. [John Foster Dulles] invented Brinkmanship, the most popular game since Monopoly.
Richard Armour
#5. When asked about how he could have offered the Warren Report, full of inconsistencies, to the American people with a straight face, Dulles is reported to have said, "The American people don't read.
Michael C. Ruppert
#6. If Dulles could use a person, that person was somehow real for him. If not, that person didn't exist.
David Talbot
#7. Alaska is much larger than France and Germany - combined. Yet its population is less than one-tenth that of New York City. Keep that in mind the next time you hear some environmentalist hysteria about the danger of "spoiling" Alaska by drilling for oil in an area smaller than Dulles Airport.
Thomas Sowell
#8. One of our greatest assets is that all men aspire to be equal and free. This fact haunts the rulers of the Kremlin today for even they cannot change this law of nature and they know it. It is up to us, not only by example but by positive acts, to make the most of this driving force within mankind.
Allen Dulles
#9. The mark of a successful organization isn't whether or not it has problems, its whether it has the same problems it had last year.
John Foster Dulles
#10. 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.
John Foster Dulles
#11. I am aware how almost impossible it is in this country to carry out a foreign policy not approved by the Jews.
John Foster Dulles
#12. 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
#13. Somehow we find it hard to sell our values, namely that the rich should plunder the poor.
John Foster Dulles
#14. At least we're getting the kind of experience we need for the next war.
Allen Dulles
#16. The Church therefore has one inescapable task: To lift up Christ. When she seeks to lift herself up she becomes weak, but when she acknowledges her own weakness and proclaims her Lord, she is strong.
Avery Dulles
#17. 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.
John Foster Dulles
#18. 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
#19. A capacity to change is indispensable. Equally indispensable is the capacity to hold fast to that which is good.
John Foster Dulles
#20. 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.
John Foster Dulles
#21. If the Pope were to deny that the death penalty could be an exercise of retributive justice, he would be overthrowing the tradition of two millenia of Catholic thought, denying the teaching of several previous popes, and contradicting the teaching of Scripture.
Avery Dulles
#22. 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
#23. I'm making progress if today's problems are different from yesterday's.
John Foster Dulles
#24. Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence.
John Foster Dulles
#25. 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
#26. A man's accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention to detail.
John Foster Dulles
#27. 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.
John Foster Dulles
#28. 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
#29. But this could be interpreted primarily in terms of the ministry of word and sacrament, in accordance with the previous models of the Church, rather than in terms of caritative service.
Avery Dulles
#31. An intelligence service is the ideal vehicle for a conspiracy.
Allen Dulles
#32. 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
#33. Maximum security exists concerning the subject of UFOs.
Allen Dulles
#34. 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
#35. [The Soviet State Security Service] is more than a secret police organization, more than an intelligence and counter-intelligence organization. It is an instrument for subversion, manipulation and violence, for secret intervention in the affairs of other countries.
Allen W. Dulles
#36. Our capacity to retaliate must be, and is, massive in order to deter all forms of aggression.
John Foster Dulles
#37. The United States of America does not have friends; it has interests.
John Foster Dulles
#38. Our institutions of freedom will not survive unless they are constantly replenished by the faith that gave them birth.
John Foster Dulles
#39. There are plenty of problems in the world, many of them interconnected. But there is no problem which compares with this central, universal problem of saving the human race from extinction.
John Foster Dulles
#40. 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.
John Foster Dulles
#41. A peaceful world is a world in which differences are tolerated, and are not eliminated by violence.
John Foster Dulles
#42. 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.
John Foster Dulles
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