John Foster Dulles

“The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art.”

“Of all the tasks of government, the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence.”

“The world will never be at peace so long as men use prayer to say, 'I thank thee, Lord, that I am not as other men.'”

“Soviet Communism is a creed which is materialistic, atheistic, and totalitarian. It denies the existence of God or of any moral law.”

“Freedom, to be preserved, must be used.”

“Neutrality has increasingly become an obsolete conception, and, except under very exceptional circumstances, it is an immoral and shortsighted conception.”

“America's capacity to help create a world of order and justice is a leadership capacity.”

“Peace is a coin which has two sides - one is the avoidance of war, the other is the creation of conditions of justice and order.”

“The United States is a strong and powerful nation, but it should not be arrogant. We should be confident, but not boastful.”

“Our policies are designed to promote peace. The tragedy is that we have to use weapons to do it.”

“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.”