Cooperation Quote by Dean Acheson

“We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation.”

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

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

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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