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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."

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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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"This programme to stop nuclear by 2020 is just crazy. If there were a nuclear war, and humanity were wiped out, the Earth would breathe a sigh of relief."

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"The only defensible war is a war of defense."

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"Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting."

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"War is the most evil kind of human approach, unless it is for good cause."

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"The tank, the submarine, the torpedo, the machine-gun, even the rifle and the hand grenade are still in use."

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"I had seen the films out of World War II, the great 82nd Airborne, the 101st, and all of those of you in the greatest generation and the service that you had provided."

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"There is neither a foreign war nor a civil war, there is only just and unjust war."

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"I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious."

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"The main force used in the evolving world of humanity has hitherto been applied in the form of war."

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"Why have we built warships to bring home peace?"

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John Foster Dulles
"A man's accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention to detail."

Life

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John Foster Dulles
"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."

Men

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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."

Being

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John Foster Dulles
"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."

Thought

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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."

War

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

Government

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John Foster Dulles
"Our capacity to retaliate must be, and is, massive in order to deter all forms of aggression."

Aggression

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John Foster Dulles
"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."

Problems

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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."

Importance

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John Foster Dulles
"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."

Faith

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