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

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

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

Dean Acheson

Writer

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

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

Father

Example

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

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

Dean Acheson

Sense

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

Dean Acheson

Mistake

Office

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

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.

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

Dean Acheson

Negotiation

Sense

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

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

Dean Acheson

First

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

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