Nicholas Fischer’s Reviews > God's Cold Warrior: The Life and Faith of John Foster Dulles > Status Update

“Populations tended to give personal characteristics to their nation, casting the nation in innocent and heroic terms and ultimately deifying it... they vilified their enemies, casting those nations in personified demonic terms. They did this because the churches had lost their vitality and watered down their religion, and the people thus looked to something other than God to worship. The state filled the vacuum”

“My father felt that one acquired education through association with great men of the past”

“So that rather than study English grammar, we were just supposed to be exposed to great writing”

“After dinner, everyone would get together and sing hymns, talk about the sermon and bible lessons, and recite scripture verses from memory”