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Top 30 Dean Acheson Quotes (2025 Update)

Dean Acheson Quote: “Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.”

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

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Dean Acheson Quote: “Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.”

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

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Dean Acheson Quote: “Greatness is a quality of character and is not the result of circumstances.”

3. “Greatness is a quality of character and is not the result of circumstances.”

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Dean Acheson Quote: “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.”

4. “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.”

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Dean Acheson Quote: “The trouble with a free market economy is that it requires so many policemen to make it work.”

5. “The trouble with a free market economy is that it requires so many policemen to make it work.”

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Dean Acheson Quote: “I have almost invariably found that charm is used as a substitute for intelligence in persons of both sexes. Thus, I have always been and will remain wary of it.”

6. “I have almost invariably found that charm is used as a substitute for intelligence in persons of both sexes. Thus, I have always been and will remain wary of it.”

— Dean Acheson

Dean Acheson Quote: “Charm never made a rooster.”

7. “Charm never made a rooster.”

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Dean Acheson Quote: “Great Britain has lost an Empire and has not yet found a role.”

8. “Great Britain has lost an Empire and has not yet found a role.”

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Dean Acheson Quote: “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.”

9. “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.”

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Dean Acheson Quote: “Vietnam was worse than immoral – it was a mistake.”

10. “Vietnam was worse than immoral – it was a mistake.”

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Dean Acheson Quote: “We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation.”

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

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Dean Acheson Quote: “How could the USA champion individual freedom in the world generally while denying it to an important minority in its own country.”

12. “How could the USA champion individual freedom in the world generally while denying it to an important minority in its own country.”

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Dean Acheson Quote: “To leave positions of great responsibility and authority is to die a little, but the time comes when that must be faced.”

13. “To leave positions of great responsibility and authority is to die a little, but the time comes when that must be faced.”

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Dean Acheson Quote: “No man comes out of his own memorandum of conversation looking second best.”

14. “No man comes out of his own memorandum of conversation looking second best.”

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Dean Acheson Quote: “The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president.”

15. “The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president.”

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Dean Acheson Quote: “The limitations imposed by democratic political practices makes it difficult to conduct our foreign affairs in the national interest.”

16. “The limitations imposed by democratic political practices makes it difficult to conduct our foreign affairs in the national interest.”

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Dean Acheson Quote: “The greatest mistake I made was not to die in office.”

17. “The greatest mistake I made was not to die in office.”

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Dean Acheson Quote: “The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull.”

18. “The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull.”

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Dean Acheson Quote: “Controversial proposals, once accepted, soon become hallowed.”

19. “Controversial proposals, once accepted, soon become hallowed.”

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Dean Acheson Quote: “With a nation, as with a boxer, one of the greatest assurances of safety is to add reach to power.”

20. “With a nation, as with a boxer, one of the greatest assurances of safety is to add reach to power.”

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Dean Acheson Quote: “I have a curious and apprehensive feeling as I watch JFK that he is sort of an Indian snake charmer.”

21. “I have a curious and apprehensive feeling as I watch JFK that he is sort of an Indian snake charmer.”

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Dean Acheson Quote: “Time spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of foot-binding.”

22. “Time spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of foot-binding.”

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Dean Acheson Quote: “If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing present, we can save the best of the past.”

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

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Dean Acheson Quote: “No people in history have ever survived, who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.”

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

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Dean Acheson Quote: “The Iraqi is really not whacky toady, perhaps, even tacky. When they gave him the word, he gave us the bird and joined with the Arabs, by cracky!”

25. “The Iraqi is really not whacky toady, perhaps, even tacky. When they gave him the word, he gave us the bird and joined with the Arabs, by cracky!”

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Dean Acheson Quote: “Between 9 and 10 AM the American radio is concerned almost exclusively with love. It seems a little like ending breakfast with a stiff bourbon.”

26. “Between 9 and 10 AM the American radio is concerned almost exclusively with love. It seems a little like ending breakfast with a stiff bourbon.”

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Dean Acheson Quote: “I doubt very much if a man whose main literary interests were in works by Mr. Zane Grey, admirable as they may be, is particularly equipped to be the chief executive of this country, particularly where Indian Affairs are concerned.”

27. “I doubt very much if a man whose main literary interests were in works by Mr. Zane Grey, admirable as they may be, is particularly equipped to be the chief executive of this country, particularly where Indian Affairs are concerned.”

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Dean Acheson Quote: “The test for aid to poor nations is therefore whether it makes them capable of being productive. If it fails to do so, it is likely to make them even poorer in the – not so very – long run.”

28. “The test for aid to poor nations is therefore whether it makes them capable of being productive. If it fails to do so, it is likely to make them even poorer in the – not so very – long run.”

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Dean Acheson Quote: “Americans assume Canada to be bestowed as a right and accept this bounty, as they do air, without thought or appreciation.”

29. “Americans assume Canada to be bestowed as a right and accept this bounty, as they do air, without thought or appreciation.”

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Dean Acheson Quote: “Brains are no substitute for judgement.”

30. “Brains are no substitute for judgement.”

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