A capacity to change is indispensable. Equally indispensable is the capacity to hold fast to that which is good. John Foster Dulles More Quotes by John Foster Dulles More Quotes From 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 John Foster Dulles saving race world The U.S. has no friends, only interests. John Foster Dulles no-friends interest We walked to the brink and we looked it in the face. John Foster Dulles victory faces war 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 tasks organization order 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 responsibility long hands 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 foreign-policy impossible country If you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost. John Foster Dulles arms-race encouraging scared I'm making progress if today's problems are different from yesterday's. John Foster Dulles progress different yesterday 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 united-nations be-good would-be 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 paris too-much history Economic and military power can be developed under the spur of laws and appropriations. But moral power does not derive from any act of Congress. It depends on the relations of a people to their God. It is the churches to which we must look to develop the resources for the great moral offensive that is required to make human rights secure, and to win a just and lasting peace. John Foster Dulles military winning peace Peace can be a cover whereby evil men can perpetrate diabolical wrongs. John Foster Dulles evil-man evil men 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 war art Of all the tasks of government, the most basic is to protect its citizens from violence. John Foster Dulles