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Great Britain has lost an Empire and has not yet found a role. – Dean Acheson

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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

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

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And the end of the fight is a tombstone white with the name of the late deceased, and the epitaph drear: A Fool lies here who tried to hustle the East. – Rudyard Kipling

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A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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Take up the White Mans burden — send forth the best ye breed — go, bind your sons to exile to serve your captives need. – Rudyard Kipling

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Sovereignty over any foreign land is insecure. – Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

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