Dean Acheson quotes Born: 04/11/1893 Died: 10/12/1971 Country: usa

• The future comes one day at a time. (Dean Acheson) [future/day/time]
• Great Britain has lost an Empire and has not yet found a role. (Dean Acheson) [role]
• A memorandum is not written to inform the reader, but to protect the writer. (Dean Acheson)
• Negotiating in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree. (Dean Acheson) [more]
• We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation. (Dean Acheson) [cooperation]
• A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer. (Dean Acheson)
• Always remember that the future comes one day at a time. (Dean Acheson)
• Controversial proposals, once accepted, soon become hallowed. (Dean Acheson)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• It is worse than immoral, it's a mistake. (Dean Acheson)
• Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree. (Dean Acheson)
• No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies. (Dean Acheson)
• The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull. (Dean Acheson)
• The great corrupter of public man is the ego. Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem. (Dean Acheson)
• The greatest mistake I made was not to die in office. (Dean Acheson)
• The manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured. (Dean Acheson)
• 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)
• Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up. (Dean Acheson)

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