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Vietnam was worse than immoral - it was a mistake.
— Dean Acheson
The limitations imposed by democratic political practices makes it difficult to conduct our foreign affairs in the national interest.
— Dean Acheson
Mr. Stevenson has a degree alright-a PhD from the Acheson College of Cowardly Communist Containment.
— Richard M. Nixon
Charm never made a rooster.
— Dean Acheson
You can't argue with a river, it isgoing to flow.You can dam it up?put it to useful purposes?deflect it, but you can't argue with it.
— Dean Acheson
Entwined with the strand of conservatism in the Democratic party is the strand of empiricism.
— Dean Acheson
The greatest mistake I made was not to die in office.
— 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
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
If I displayed this cup, I might look at it once or twice a week. By using it, I get pleasure from it continually.
— Lila Acheson Wallace
Time spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of foot-binding.
— 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
But just as misery cannot crawl across an endless path, so does the trail of happiness occasionally reach a sharp end." - The Last Gift
— Carla 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
The future comes one day at a time [so don't fear and try to solve all the worries and problems of the future today].
— Dean Acheson
We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation.
— Dean Acheson
It is worse than immoral, it's a mistake.
— Dean Acheson
Negotiating in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.
— Dean Acheson
The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull.
— Dean Acheson
Brains are no substitute for judgement.
— Dean Acheson
A painting is like a man. If you can live without it, then there isn't much point in having it.
— Lila Acheson Wallace
With a nation, as with a boxer, one of the greatest assurances of safety is to add reach to power.
— Dean Acheson
Not only did he [Dean Acheson] not suffer fools gladly, he did not suffer them at all.
— Lester B. Pearson
Dean Acheson was one of the very best and brightest of the men who ever came to Washington.
— Katharine Graham
The trouble with a free market economy is that it requires so many policemen to make it work.
— Dean Acheson
The great corrupter of public man is the ego. Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem.
— Dean Acheson
I knew right away that it was a gorgeous idea.
— Lila Acheson Wallace
I have a curious and apprehensive feeling as I watch JFK that he is sort of an Indian snake charmer.
— Dean Acheson
Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.
— 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
The manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured.
— Dean Acheson
Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up.
— Dean Acheson