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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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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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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The best environment for diplomacy is found where mutual confidence between governments exists.
~ Dean Acheson
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The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art.
~ John Foster Dulles
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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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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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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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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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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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