"Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence." ― John Foster Dulles Topic(s): Government More From John Foster Dulles "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." "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." "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." More In Government "We used to play music for fun. Much more than now. Now nobody picks up a guitar unless they’re paid for it."― Leonard Cohen "Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear – kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor – with the cry of grave national emergency."― Douglas MacArthur "The technology backbone is no longer an afterthought."― Nick Price