Dean Acheson
Dean Acheson
Dean Gooderham Achesonwas 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. Acheson helped design the Marshall Plan and was a key player in the development of the Truman Doctrine and creation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth11 April 1893
CityMiddletown, CT
CountryUnited States of America
It is worse than immoral, it's a mistake.
I doubt very much if a man whose main literary interests were in works by Mr. Zane Grey, admirable as they may be, is particularly equipped to be the chief executive of this country, particularly where Indian Affairs are concerned.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time. The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Greatness is a quality of character and is not the result of circumstances.
To leave positions of great responsibility and authority is to die a little, but the time comes when that must be faced.
No man comes out of his own memorandum of conversation looking second best.
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.
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].
Brains are no substitute for judgement.
Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up.
Charm never made a rooster.
The Iraqi is really not whacky toady, perhaps, even tacky. When they gave him the word, he gave us the bird and joined with the Arabs, by cracky!
Great Britain has lost an Empire and not yet found a role. The attempt to playa separate power rolethat is, a role apart from Europe, based on a special relationship with the United States, on being the head of the Commonwealthis about to be played out. Her Majesty's Government is now attempting, wisely in my opinion, to re-enter Europe.
[President Truman] was free of the greatest vice in a leader, his ego never came between him and his job.