John Foster Dulles Quotes About War

Quotes about: War

• 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

  Peace, War, Sacrifice

• In order to bring a nation to support the burdens incident to maintaining great military establishments, it is necessary to create an emotional state akin to war psychology. There must be the portrayal of an external menace or of internal conditions rendered intolerable by the unjust restraints of foreign nations. This involves the development to a high degree of the nation-hero nation-villain ideology and the arousing of the population to a sense of the duty of sacrifice.

  John Foster Dulles

  Military, War, Hero

  "War, Peace and Change".

• We walked to the brink and we looked it in the face.

  John Foster Dulles

  War, Victory, Faces

  Quoted in Life, 16 Jan. 1956

• 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

  Spiritual, Peace, War

  John Foster Dulles (1957). “War Or Peace”

• 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.

  John Foster Dulles

  Running, Art, Strong

  In Life 16 Jan. 1956

• 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

  Running, Art, War

  In Life 16 Jan. 1956

• 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

  War, Believe, Blessing

  John Foster Dulles' statement at the news conference (December 31, 1954), as quoted in "Department of State Bulletin" (p. 44), January 10, 1955.

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