"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."

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Source : John Foster Dulles (1954). “Evolution of Foreign Policy: Text of Speech by John Foster Dulles Secretary of State Before the Council on Foreign Relations, New York, N.Y., January 12, 1954”

John Foster Dulles

#Land Quotes #Important Quotes #Defense Quotes

“A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a roue to retire upon.”
“An ethic gone wrong is an essential preliminary to the sweat shop or the concentration camp and the death march.”

Source : Simon Blackburn (2003). “Ethics: A Very Short Introduction”, p.22, OUP Oxford
“My mom enlisted in the U.S. Navy in World War II, and my parents actually bought our home thanks to the loan she got through the GI Bill.”
“The great thing about suicide is that it's not one of those things you have to do now or you lose your chance. I mean, you can always do it later.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Cruise passengers can be blinded to the very real perils of the sea by ship operators unwilling to interrupt the party for security warnings. And after an incident occurs, a thorough investigation can be profoundly difficult when the crime scene literally floats away, on schedule, to its next port of call.”
“From my mother's sleep I fell into the State, And I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze. Six miles from earth, loosed from the dream of life, I woke to black flak and the nightmare fighters. When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose.”
“Coach Landry was a master at maintaining discipline and creating an environment where ordinary people could achieve extra ordinary results.”
“The character of God is today, and always will be, exactly what it was in Bible times.”

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