Dean Acheson quotes and words of wisdom

"A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer."
Found in the topic Writing.

"The future comes one day at a time."
Found in the topic Present.

"Great Britain has lost an Empire and has not yet found a role."
Found in the topic Engineer.

"Time spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of foot-binding."
Found in the topic Advertising.

"Controversial proposals, once accepted, soon become hallowed."
Found in the topic Change.

"Always remember that the future comes one day at a time."
Found in the topic Future.

"The manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured."
Found in the topic Endure.

"Negotiating in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree."
Found in the topic Assume.

"The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president."
Found in the topic Unsorted.

"The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull. This is not always easy to achieve."
Found in the topic Dull.

"It is worse than immoral, it"s a mistake."
Found in the topic Immorality.

Interesting Quotes

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.Dwight D. Eisenhower - US general & Republican politician (1890 - 1969)

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.George Bernard Shaw - Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)