“The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.”
Dean Acheson“A memorandum is written to protect the writer - not to inform his reader.”
Dean Acheson“Negotiation 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. This is not always easy to achieve.”
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“I don't see the wisdom in modern politicians that I once saw in men like Dean Acheson, David Bruce, or George Marshall. In my day, the northeastern establishment dominated foreign policy formulation, but the composition and distribution of our population is very different today.”
Henry Kissinger