Dean Acheson

The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time. ↗

— Dean Acheson

#best #comes #day #future #one day

No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies. ↗

— Dean Acheson

#ever #freedom #history #making #people

Controversial proposals, once accepted, soon become hallowed. ↗

— Dean Acheson

#become #controversial #hallowed #once #proposals

I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe holding public office. ↗

— Dean Acheson

#describe #does #employment #glad #happily

A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer. ↗

— Dean Acheson

#memorandum #protect #reader #writer #written

Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role. ↗

— Dean Acheson

#empire #found #great #great britain #lost

I learned from the example of my father that the manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured. ↗

— Dean Acheson

#endures #example #father #i #important

If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing present, we can save the best of the past. ↗

— Dean Acheson

#best #changing #learn #must #past

It is worse than immoral, it's a mistake. ↗

— Dean Acheson

#mistake #than #worse

Negotiating in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree. ↗

— Dean Acheson

#anxious #assumes #classic #diplomatic #disagree