| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 17910 |
| QUOTATION: | 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.... We walked to the brink and we looked it in the face. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | John Foster Dulles (1888–1959), U.S. politician. quoted in Life (New York, Jan. 16, 1956).
Adlai Stevenson characterized the Dulles-Eisenhower foreign policy as “the power of positive brinking.” |
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