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Charm never made a rooster.
Dean Acheson / Former United States Secretary Of State
Charm
Made
Roosters
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Brains are no substitute for judgement.
Dean Acheson / Former United States Secretary Of State
Brain
Judgement
Substitutes
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It is worse than immoral, it's a mistake.
Dean Acheson / Former United States Secretary Of State
Immoral
Mistake
Worse
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Vietnam was worse than immoral - it was a mistake.
Dean Acheson / Former United States Secretary Of State
Immoral
Mistake
Vietnam
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The greatest mistake I made was not to die in office.
Dean Acheson / Former United States Secretary Of State
Mistake
Office
Political
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Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.
Dean Acheson / Former United States Secretary Of State
Change
Inspirational
Motivational
Smile
Success
Uplifting
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The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull.
Dean Acheson / Former United States Secretary Of State
Politics
Dull
Requirements
Requirement
Statesman
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Controversial proposals, once accepted, soon become hallowed.
Dean Acheson / Former United States Secretary Of State
Politics
Acceptance
Accepted
Controversial
Political
Hallowed
Proposals
Soon
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Great Britain has lost an Empire and has not yet found a role.
Dean Acheson / Former United States Secretary Of State
History
Britain
Empires
Found
Great Britain
Lost
Roles
Empire
Role
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The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Dean Acheson / Former United States Secretary Of State
Best
Future
One Day
One Day At A Time
Time Best Day
Time Best Future
About
Thing
Best Future Time
Day
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Greatness is a quality of character and is not the result of circumstances.
Dean Acheson / Former United States Secretary Of State
Quality
Character
Greatness
Results
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A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
Dean Acheson / Former United States Secretary Of State
Funny
Accountability
Political
Protect
Reader
Writer
Inform
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No man comes out of his own memorandum of conversation looking second best.
Dean Acheson / Former United States Secretary Of State
Men
Conversation
Second Best
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The trouble with a free market economy is that it requires so many policemen to make it work.
Dean Acheson / Former United States Secretary Of State
Economy
Free Market
Trouble
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With a nation, as with a boxer, one of the greatest assurances of safety is to add reach to power.
Dean Acheson / Former United States Secretary Of State
Add
Boxers
Safety
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Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.
Dean Acheson / Former United States Secretary Of State
Inspirational
Agree
Agree To Disagree
Anxious
Classic
Diplomatic
Disagree
Negotiation
Party
Assumes
Parties
Sense
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Negotiating in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.
Dean Acheson / Former United States Secretary Of State
Agree
Anxious
Classic
Diplomatic
Disagree
Negotiating
Assumes
Parties
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I have a curious and apprehensive feeling as I watch JFK that he is sort of an Indian snake charmer.
Dean Acheson / Former United States Secretary Of State
Feelings
Snakes
Watches
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[President Truman] was free of the greatest vice in a leader, his ego never came between him and his job.
Dean Acheson / Former United States Secretary Of State
Jobs
Ego
Leader
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Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up.
Dean Acheson / Former United States Secretary Of State
Aircraft
Military
Political
Self
Bullet
Closes
Washington
Passes
Tank
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The manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured.
Dean Acheson / Former United States Secretary Of State
Important
Endured
Manner
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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.
Dean Acheson / Former United States Secretary Of State
Art
Ifs
Past
Present
Save
Yielded
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The great corrupter of public man is the ego. Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem.
Dean Acheson / Former United States Secretary Of State
Mirror
Public Man
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Time spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of foot-binding.
Dean Acheson / Former United States Secretary Of State
Business
Chinese
Feet
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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 / Former United States Secretary Of State
One Day At A Time
Trying
Worry
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To leave positions of great responsibility and authority is to die a little, but the time comes when that must be faced.
Dean Acheson / Former United States Secretary Of State
Authority
Littles
Responsibility
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Americans assume Canada to be bestowed as a right and accept this bounty, as they do air, without thought or appreciation.
Dean Acheson / Former United States Secretary Of State
Appreciation
Air
Canada
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The defensive perimeter [of the United States in East Asia] runs along the Aleutians to Japan and then goes to the Ryukyus.
Dean Acheson / Former United States Secretary Of State
Running
War
Japan
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We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation.
Dean Acheson / Former United States Secretary Of State
Cooperation
Instruments
International
International Cooperation
Nations
Seeking
United Nations
Actively
Effective
Instrument
Sought
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How could the USA champion individual freedom in the world generally while denying it to an important minority in its own country.
Dean Acheson / Former United States Secretary Of State
Champion
Country
Usa
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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 / Former United States Secretary Of State
Flow
Purpose
Rivers
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The limitations imposed by democratic political practices makes it difficult to conduct our foreign affairs in the national interest.
Dean Acheson / Former United States Secretary Of State
Affair
Political
Practice
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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.
Dean Acheson / Former United States Secretary Of State
Enemy
People
Protect
Survived
Enemies
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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.
Dean Acheson / Former United States Secretary Of State
Work
Doe
Employment
Glad
Office
Public Office
Describe
Happily
Holding
Seek
Undoubtedly
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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.
Dean Acheson / Former United States Secretary Of State
Relationship
Aspect
Important
President
Secretary
Understanding
The Most Important
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Between 9 and 10 AM the American radio is concerned almost exclusively with love. It seems a little like ending breakfast with a stiff bourbon.
Dean Acheson / Former United States Secretary Of State
Breakfast
Littles
Radio
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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.
Dean Acheson / Former United States Secretary Of State
Future
Live In The Moment
One Day
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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!
Dean Acheson / Former United States Secretary Of State
Bird
Tacky
Toady
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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.
Dean Acheson / Former United States Secretary Of State
Father
Important
Keys
Endured
Manner
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I have almost invariably found that charm is used as a substitute for intelligence in persons of both sexes. Thus, I have always been and will remain wary of it.
Dean Acheson / Former United States Secretary Of State
Charm
Sex
Used
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The test for aid to poor nations is therefore whether it makes them capable of being productive. If it fails to do so, it is likely to make them even poorer in the - not so very - long run.
Dean Acheson / Former United States Secretary Of State
Running
Long
Poor Nations
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The great corrupter of public men is the ego - corrupter because distracter. Wealth, sensuality, power cannot hold a candle to it. Looking in the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem.
Dean Acheson / Former United States Secretary Of State
Men
Ego Problem
Mirrors
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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.
Dean Acheson / Former United States Secretary Of State
Men
Country
Political
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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.
Dean Acheson / Former United States Secretary Of State
Government
Europe
Special
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I think Churchill is right, the only thing to be said for democracy is that there is nothing else that's any better, and therefore he used to say, Tyranny tempered by assassination, but lots of assassination. People say, If the Congress were more representative of the people it would be better. I say the Congress is too damn representative. It's just as stupid as the people are; just as uneducated, just as dumb, just as selfish.
Dean Acheson / Former United States Secretary Of State
Selfish
Stupid
Thinking
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Like apples in a barrel infected by one rotten one, the corruption of Greece would infect Iran and all to the east. It would also carry infection to Africa through Asia Minor and Egypt, and to Europe through Italy and France, already threatened by the strongest domestic Communist parties in Western Europe. The Soviet Union was playing one of the greatest gambles in history at minimal cost. It did not need to will all the possibilities. Even one or two offered immense gains. We and we alone were in a position to break up the play.
Dean Acheson / Former United States Secretary Of State
War
Party
Two
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