Quotes by Dean Acheson

Dean Acheson

American statesman and lawyer.

Lived from: 1893 - 1971

Category: Politics Country: United States

Born: 11 april 1893 Died: 12 october 1971

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• Great Britain has lost an Empire and has not yet found a role.

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

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

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• The future comes one day at a time.

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• We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation.

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Subjects in these quotes:

• international
• cooperation
• instrument
• actively
• assumes
• parties

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