51 Quotes by Dean Acheson

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

When I walk into my office, the other portraits that I look at in addition to (Thomas) Jefferson, the portraits of George Marshall, but especially Dean Acheson.

The future comes one day at a time.

The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull. This is not always easy to achieve.

Vietnam was worse than immoral – it was a mistake.

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