Books Quote by Dean Acheson Download Open image “A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.” — Dean Acheson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Protect Reader Writing Written
The following [addition to the Bill of Rights] would have pleased me: The people shall not be deprived or abridged of their right to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I learned early on that if you don't want your memos to get you in trouble someday, just don't write any. — Dick Cheney Copy Share Image
What can't be said can be written. Because writing is a silent act, a labor from the head to the hand. — Herta Muller Copy Share Image
“without the prior written consent of the author/publisher or the terms relayed to you herein.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Writing shouldn't come between the reader and what's being described. It should be as transparent as possible. — Diana Athill Copy Share Image
How could the USA champion individual freedom in the world generally while denying it to an important minority in its own country. — Dean Acheson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
To leave positions of great responsibility and authority is to die a little, but the time comes when that must be faced. — Dean Acheson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Negotiating in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree. — Dean Acheson Copy Share Image
Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up. — Dean Acheson Copy Share Image
Americans assume Canada to be bestowed as a right and accept this bounty, as they do air, without thought or appreciation. — Dean Acheson Copy Share Image
I learned from the example of my father that the manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the… — Dean Acheson Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image