John Foster Dulles Quote

You have to take chances for peace, just as you must take chances in war.... The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.


From James Shepley, How Dulles Averted War, in Life [January 16,1956]


You have to take chances for peace, just as you must take chances in war.... The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the...

You have to take chances for peace, just as you must take chances in war.... The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the...

You have to take chances for peace, just as you must take chances in war.... The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the...

You have to take chances for peace, just as you must take chances in war.... The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the...