John Foster Quotes
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.
A man's accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention to detail.
The Soviets sought not a place in the sun, but the sun itself. Their objective was the world. They would not tolerate compromise on goals, only on tactics.
The principle of neutrality ... has increasingly become an obsolete conception, and, except under very special circumstances, it is an immoral and shortsighted conception.
Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence.
Our capacity to retaliate must be, and is, massive in order to deter all forms of aggression
A peaceful world is a world in which differences are tolerated, and are not eliminated by violence.
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
Somehow we find it hard to sell our values, namely that the rich should plunder the poor.
A capacity to change is indispensable. Equally indispensable is the capacity to hold fast to that which is good.
Our institutions of freedom will not survive unless they are constantly replenished by the faith that gave them birth.
The mark of a successful organization isn't whether or not it has problems, its whether it has the same problems it had last year.
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
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 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
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
I am aware how almost impossible it is in this country to carry out a foreign policy not approved by the Jews.
Freedom & Duty always go hand in hand and if the free do not accept the duty of social responsibility, they will not long remain free.
The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities.
A man without decision can never be said to belong to himself he is as a wave of the sea or a feather in the air which every breeze blows about.
The principle of neutrality ... has increasingly become an obsolete conception and except under very special circumstances it is an immoral and shortsighted conception.