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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Dean Acheson

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

— 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

I learned from the example of my father that the manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important…

— Dean Acheson

The trouble with a free market economy is that it requires so many policemen to make it work.

— Dean Acheson

I think Churchill is right, the only thing to be said for democracy is that there is nothing else that's any better,…

— Dean Acheson

Like apples in a barrel infected by one rotten one, the corruption of Greece would infect Iran and all to the east.…

— Dean Acheson

The great corrupter of public men is the ego - corrupter because distracter. Wealth, sensuality, power cannot hold a candle to it.…

— Dean Acheson

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

— Dean Acheson

The limitations imposed by democratic political practices makes it difficult to conduct our foreign affairs in the national interest.

— Dean Acheson

Vietnam was worse than immoral - it was a mistake.

— Dean Acheson

The defensive perimeter [of the United States in East Asia] runs along the Aleutians to Japan and then goes to the Ryukyus.

— Dean Acheson

I have almost invariably found that charm is used as a substitute for intelligence in persons of both sexes. Thus, I have…

— Dean Acheson

I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe…

— Dean Acheson

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

— Dean Acheson

Greatness is a quality of character and is not the result of circumstances.

— Dean Acheson