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 Quotes from John Foster Dulles:
I hope the day will never come when the American nation will be the champion of the status quo. Once that happens, we shall have forfeited, and rightly forfeited, the support of the unsatisfied, of those who are the victims of inevitable imperfections, of those who, young in years or spirit, believe that they can make a better world and of those who dream dreams and want to make their dreams to come true.John Foster Dulles
A man's accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention to detail.
John Foster Dulles
Local defense will always be important. But there is no local defense which alone will contain the mighty land power of the Communist world. Local defense must be reinforced by the further deterrent of massive retaliatory power.
John Foster Dulles
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.
John Foster Dulles
We walked to the brink and we looked it in the face.
John Foster Dulles
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
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