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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Vietnam was worse than immoral — it was a mistake.
~ Dean Acheson
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Vietnam was worse than immoral — it was a mistake.
~ 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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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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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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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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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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Neutrality has increasingly become obsolete and, except under very exceptional circumstances, it is an immoral and shortsighted conception.
~ John Foster Dulles
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Great Britain has lost an Empire and has not yet found a role.
~ Dean Acheson
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