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We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation.

Author: Dean Acheson (1893-1971) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 163 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up.

Author: Dean Acheson (1893-1971) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 170 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Time spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of foot-binding.

Author: Dean Acheson (1893-1971) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 157 | Rank: 0 | Fav

The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president.

Author: Dean Acheson (1893-1971) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 167 | Rank: 0 | Fav

The manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured.

Author: Dean Acheson (1893-1971) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 163 | Rank: 0 | Fav

The greatest mistake I made was not to die in office.

Author: Dean Acheson (1893-1971) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 191 | Rank: 0 | Fav

The great corrupter of public man is the ego. Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem.

Author: Dean Acheson (1893-1971) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 166 | Rank: 0 | Fav

The future comes one day at a time.

Author: Dean Acheson (1893-1971) | Theme: Opinion | Clicks: 176 | Rank: 0 | Fav

The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull. This is not always easy to achieve.

Author: Dean Acheson (1893-1971) | Theme: Politics | Clicks: 157 | Rank: 0 | Fav

The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull.

Author: Dean Acheson (1893-1971) | Theme: Politics | Clicks: 129 | Rank: 0 | Fav

The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.

Author: Dean Acheson (1893-1971) | Theme: Opinion | Clicks: 139 | Rank: 0 | Fav

No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.

Author: Dean Acheson (1893-1971) | Theme: Liberty | Clicks: 153 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.

Author: Dean Acheson (1893-1971) | Theme: Politics | Clicks: 158 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Negotiating in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.

Author: Dean Acheson (1893-1971) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 177 | Rank: 0 | Fav

It is worse than immoral, it's a mistake.

Author: Dean Acheson (1893-1971) | Theme: Moral | Clicks: 212 | Rank: 0 | Fav

If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing present, we can save the best of the past.

Author: Dean Acheson (1893-1971) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 166 | Rank: 0 | Fav

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.

Author: Dean Acheson (1893-1971) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 192 | Rank: 0 | Fav

I have a curious and apprehensive feeling as I watch JFK that he is sort of an Indian snake charmer.

Author: Dean Acheson (1893-1971) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 175 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role.

Author: Dean Acheson (1893-1971) | Theme: Politics | Clicks: 155 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Controversial proposals, once accepted, soon become hallowed.

Author: Dean Acheson (1893-1971) | Theme: Opinion | Clicks: 142 | Rank: 0 | Fav
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