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Former U.S. Senator

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“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.”

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Author:John Foster Dulles
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“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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Book: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
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