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Dean Acheson [1893-1971] American
Rank: 105
Statesman, Former United States Secretary of State


Dean Gooderham Acheson was an American statesman and lawyer. As United States Secretary of State in the administration of President Harry S. Truman from 1949 to 1953, he played a central role in defining American foreign policy during the Cold War.

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The manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured.
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The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time. Best, Future, Time
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I learned from the example of my father that the manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured.
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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 holding public office.
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A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
105
Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role.
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Negotiating in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.
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Controversial proposals, once accepted, soon become hallowed.
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No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.
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The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president. Relationship
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We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation.
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Negotiation 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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The great corrupter of public man is the ego. Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem.
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The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull.
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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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The greatest mistake I made was not to die in office.
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It is worse than immoral, it's a mistake.
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