51 Quotes by Dean Acheson

Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.

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

The manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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