Leadership Quotes by Dean Acheson

How could the USA champion individual freedom in the world generally while denying it to an important minority in its own country.

— Dean Acheson

The test for aid to poor nations is therefore whether it makes them capable of being productive. If it fails to do so, it…

— Dean Acheson

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

— Dean Acheson

Between 9 and 10 AM the American radio is concerned almost exclusively with love. It seems a little like ending breakfast with a stiff bourbon.

— Dean Acheson

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

— Dean Acheson

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

— Dean Acheson

The Iraqi is really not whacky toady, perhaps, even tacky. When they gave him the word, he gave us the bird and joined with…

— 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

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

— Dean Acheson

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

— Dean Acheson

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

— Dean Acheson

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

— Dean Acheson