Quote: The future comes one day at a time. [Dean Acheson]
Quote: Great Britain has lost an Empire and has not yet found a role. [Dean Acheson]
Quote: A memorandum is not written to inform the reader, but to protect the writer. [Dean Acheson]
Quote: Negotiating in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree. [Dean Acheson]
Quote: We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation. [Dean Acheson]
Quote: A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer. [Dean Acheson]
Quote: Always remember that the future comes one day at a time. [Dean Acheson]
Quote: Controversial proposals, once accepted, soon become hallowed. [Dean Acheson]
Quote: I learned from the example of my father that the manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured. [Dean Acheson]
Quote: I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe holding public office. [Dean Acheson]
Quote: If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing present, we can save the best of the past. [Dean Acheson]
Quote: It is worse than immoral, it's a mistake. [Dean Acheson]
Quote: Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree. [Dean Acheson]
Quote: No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies. [Dean Acheson]
Quote: The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull. [Dean Acheson]
Quote: The great corrupter of public man is the ego. Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem. [Dean Acheson]
Quote: The greatest mistake I made was not to die in office. [Dean Acheson]
Quote: The manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured. [Dean Acheson]
Quote: The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president. [Dean Acheson]
Quote: Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up. [Dean Acheson]
Quote: We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation [Dean Acheson]
Quote: I learned from the example of my father that the manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured [Dean Acheson]
Quote: Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree [Dean Acheson]
Quote: Always remember that the future comes one day at a time. [Dean Acheson]
Quote: The great corrupter of public man is the ego. Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem. [Dean Acheson]