Great Corrupter Quotes by Dean Acheson

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• I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe…
• Always remember that the future comes 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.
• A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
• Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.
• The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is…
• Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up.
• Controversial proposals, once accepted, soon become hallowed.
• The great corrupter of public man is the ego.... Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem.
• Time spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of foot-binding.
• It is worse than immoral, it's a mistake.
• The greatest mistake I made was not to die in office.

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