A mixture of frustration and progress is the daily grind of foreign affairs.
~ Dean Acheson

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Not all the arts of diplomacy are learned solely in its practice. There are other exercise yards.
~ Dean Acheson

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I must plead guilty as any of escaping into immediate busywork to keep from the far harder task of peering into a dim future, which, of course, should be one of a diplomat’s main duties.
~ Dean Acheson

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Vietnam was worse than immoral — it was a mistake.
~ Dean Acheson

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If I have said nothing new tonight, it may well be because, in a family of nations as in families of individuals we should expect nothing more sensational than growth.
~ Dean Acheson

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The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull.
~ Dean Acheson

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