The more I see of Mankind, the more I prefer my dog.
~ Blaise Pascal
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The more I see of Mankind, the more I prefer my dog.
~ Blaise Pascal
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Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.
~ Blaise Pascal
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The best environment for diplomacy is found where mutual confidence between governments exists.
~ Dean Acheson
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The simple truth is that perseverance in good policies is the only avenue to success.
~ Dean Acheson
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We have a tradition in this country of skepticism about government, of looking at it very carefully, of seeing whether our public servants can take it. That isn’t always comfortable, but, on the whole, it is good.
~ Dean Acheson
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My constant appeal to American liberals was to face the long, hard years and not to distract us with the offer of short cuts and easy solutions begotten by good will out of the angels of man’s better nature … The road to freedom and peace is a hard one.
~ Dean Acheson
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The qualities which produce the dogged, unbeatable courage of the British, personified at the time by Winston Churchill, can appear in other settings as stubbornness bordering on stupidity.
~ Dean Acheson
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Force can overcome force, but a free society cannot long steel itself to dominate another people by sheer force.
~ Dean Acheson
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It is a mistake to interpret too literally and sweepingly the poet’s admonition that things are not what they seem. Sometimes they are, and it is often essential to survival to know when they are and when they are not.
~ Dean Acheson
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