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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The best environment for diplomacy is found where mutual confidence between governments exists.
~ Dean Acheson

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