30 Quotes by John Foster Dulles

You have to take chances for peace, just as you must take chances in war. Some say that we were brought to the verge of war. Of course we were brought to the verge of war. 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. We've had to look it square in the face... We walked to the brink and we looked it in the face. We took strong action.

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.

A man’s accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention to detail.

Forgive everybody everything everyday.

Our institutions of freedom will not survive unless they are constantly replenished by the faith that gave them birth.

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.

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.

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

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