"Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence."
― John Foster Dulles
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Government
― John Foster Dulles
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