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.
ATTRIBUTION:
John Foster Dulles (1888–1959), U.S. Republican politician. Quoted in Life (New York, January 16, 1956).
Adlai Stevenson characterized the Dulles-Eisenhower foreign policy as “the power of positive brinking.”
