Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.
- Dean Acheson
Classic, Anxious, Diplomatic, Assumes
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
Art, Past, Learn, Yielding
We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation.
- Dean Acheson
United, United Nations, Actively
Controversial proposals, once accepted, soon become hallowed.
- Dean Acheson
Once, Hallowed, Accepted, Controversial
Negotiating in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.
- Dean Acheson
Anxious, Diplomatic, Assumes, Negotiating
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
- Dean Acheson
Future, Best, One Day, One Day At A Time
Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role.
- Dean Acheson
Role, Found, Britain, Great Britain
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
Will, Say, Which, Employment
No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.
- Dean Acheson
Thought, Making, Could, Protect
The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull.
- Dean Acheson
Requirement, He, Statesman, Dull
The great corrupter of public man is the ego. Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem.
- Dean Acheson
Great, Mirror, Ego, Public Man
The manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured.
- Dean Acheson
Important, Which, Endured, Endures
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
More, Which, Learned, Endures
Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up.
- Dean Acheson
Through, Like, Passes, Bullet
The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president.
- Dean Acheson
Important, Secretary, Most, Aspect
A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
- Dean Acheson
Protect, Reader, Written, Inform
It is worse than immoral, it's a mistake.
- Dean Acheson
Mistake, Worse, Than, Immoral
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