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Posted on June 5, 2025 by Seamas Anstruther

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

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Posted on May 5, 2025 by Seamas Anstruther

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

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Dean Acheson was born
on this day in 1893

Posted on April 11, 2025 by Dmitri O'Bannon

Dean Acheson – the American statesman and lawyer – was born on April 11, 1893 in Middletown, Connecticut.

He was a graduate of both Yale University and Harvard University.

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Posted in 0330 - Today in History | Tagged 11apr0330, Birthday, Dean Acheson

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Posted on April 5, 2025 by Seamas Anstruther

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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Posted on April 1, 2025 by Seamas Anstruther

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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Posted on March 5, 2025 by Seamas Anstruther

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

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Posted on March 4, 2025 by Seamas Anstruther

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

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Posted in 1259 - Quote Unquote | Tagged 04m1259, Dean Acheson

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Posted on March 1, 2025 by Seamas Anstruther

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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Posted on February 5, 2025 by Seamas Anstruther

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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Posted on February 4, 2025 by Seamas Anstruther

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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