John Foster Dulles
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"John Foster Dulles" served as United States Secretary of State/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 First Indochina War/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 (1954)/Geneva Conference in 1954.

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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.

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The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art.. if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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