Failure Quote by Dean Acheson Download Open image “Vietnam was worse than immoral - it was a mistake.” — Dean Acheson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Failure Immoral Mistake Vietnam
Take a look at public opinion. About 70 percent of the population, in the polls, said the [Vietnam ] war was fundamentally wrong and… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Why did the people think [Vietnam war] was fundamentally wrong and immoral? The guys who ran the polls, John E. Rielly, a professor at… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Vietnam was a terrible mistake for the United States. But like Iraq, Vietnam was a badly chosen battlefield in a larger conflict with totalitarianism… — Jacob Weisberg Copy Share Image
Vietnam was really an idealistic thing to stop the spread of communism, which, incidentally, it did. It was a pretty costly way to do… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
Immorality is just as bad now as it was in the past. The difference is that now we flaunt it. It used to be… — J. Vernon McGee Copy Share Image
Some of the critics viewed Vietnam as a morality play in which the wicked must be punished before the final curtain and where any… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
I do not believe the United States is well served by a policy that says it is OK to be immoral in any way. — Peter Pace 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
A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer. — 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
When you do things they're absolutely right at that time for you and it can always teach you something about yourself. You can take… — Kym Marsh Copy Share Image
Failures happen. You can't cry over them. You just take it in your stride because you know that you have done your best... Sometimes,… — Divya Dutta Copy Share Image
“Rhiannon's Law #28: If you're going to fuck up, be sure to fuck up good and proper. Nothing makes failure acceptable, so you might… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Failure is a part of life and you have to learn to deal with it. Failure is something that is part of life's cycle… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
First action was a mistake. What about the second? third? fourth and fifth?...Mehn you are bad... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Don’t you just hate nights like that, when you think over every mistake you’ve made, every hurt you’ve received, every bit of meanness you’ve… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
“Our failure to understand another being's inner reality doesn't make that reality any less real, or any less valuable to that being. (p.255)” — Kathryn Schulz Copy Share Image
I hope that the Palestinians don't make the mistake of unleashing a new intifada. They've tried it twice before, and the consequences were bad… — Tom Segev Copy Share Image
Don't take too much comfort in the fact that you're successful today because tomorrow could bring failure. There's no surety in life. — Michael Savage Copy Share Image
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