John Foster Dulles Quotes

John Foster Dulles — American Public Servant born on February 25, 1888, died on May 24, 1959

John Foster Dulles served as U.S. Secretary of State under Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 to 1959. He was a significant figure in the early Cold War era, advocating an aggressive stance against Communism throughout the world. He negotiated numerous treaties and alliances that reflected this point of view. He advocated support of the French in their war against the Viet Minh in Indochina but rejected the Geneva Accords that France and the Communists agreed to, and instead supported South Vietnam after the Geneva Conference in 1954... (wikipedia)

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.

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.

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

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

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