Dean Acheson Quotes
"No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies."
- Dean Acheson
(Related: History, Thought, People, Enemies, Freedom)
"The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time."
- Dean Acheson
(Related: Time, Day, Future)
"The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull."
- Dean Acheson
(Related: First)
"The great corrupter of public man is the ego. Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem."
- Dean Acheson
(Related: Attention, Ego, Man, Public)
"Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree."
- Dean Acheson
(Related: Negotiation, Sense)
"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
(Related: Office, Public, Will)
"Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up."
- Dean Acheson
(Related: Military, Self, Washington)
"The greatest mistake I made was not to die in office."
- Dean Acheson
(Related: Mistake, Office)
"Negotiating in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree."
- Dean Acheson
(Related: Sense)
"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
(Related: Art, Past, Present)
"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
(Related: Father, Example)
"Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role."
- Dean Acheson
"Controversial proposals, once accepted, soon become hallowed."
- Dean Acheson
"Always remember that the future comes one day at a time."
- Dean Acheson
(Related: Time, Day, Future)
"A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer."
- Dean Acheson
(Related: Writer)
"We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation."
- Dean Acheson
(Related: Cooperation, Nations, United)
"It is worse than immoral, it's a mistake."
- Dean Acheson
(Related: Mistake)