Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
1961
AUTHOR:
John Foster Dulles (1888–1959)
QUOTATION:
Peace will never be won if men reserve for war their greatest efforts, Peace, too, requires well-directed and sustained sacrificial endeavor. Given that, we can, I believe, achieve the great goal of our foreign policy, that of enabling our people to enjoy in peace the blessings of liberty.
ATTRIBUTION:
JOHN FOSTER DULLES, secretary of state, news conference statement, December 31, 1954.—Department of State Bulletin, January 10, 1955, p. 44.
