Dean Acheson Quotes

Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.
Dean Acheson

Change, Time, Future

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

History, Freedom, Thought

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

Time, Best, Future

Controversial proposals, once accepted, soon become hallowed.
Dean Acheson

Become, Once, Soon

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

Public, Office, Known

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

Writer, Written, Protect

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

Great, Lost, Found

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.
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Father, Important, Learned

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

Best, Art, Past

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

Mistake, Worse, Immoral

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

Sense, Agree, Disagree

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

Sense, Agree, Disagree

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

Dull, Statesman

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

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

Greatest, Made, Die

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

Important, Manner, Endured

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

Important, Understand, Between

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

Through, Military, Washington

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

United, Nations, Effective

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Statesman

Born: April 11, 1893

Died: October 12, 1971

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