Dean Acheson Quotes

Dean Acheson Quotes

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


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


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


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


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


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.


Controversial proposals, once accepted, soon become hallowed.


A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.

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