Quotes from Dean Acheson

Entwined with the strand of conservatism in the Democratic party is the strand of empiricism.

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

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

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

The future comes one day at a time [so don't fear and try to solve all the worries and problems of the future today].

Time spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of foot-binding.

To leave positions of great responsibility and authority is to die a little, but the time comes when that must be faced.

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

Americans assume Canada to be bestowed as a right and accept this bounty, as they do air, without thought or appreciation.

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

The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull. This is not always easy to achieve.

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

The future comes one day at a time.

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

No man comes out of his own memorandum of conversation looking second best.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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