Great Britain has lost an Empire and has not yet found a role. – Dean Acheson
We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation. – Dean Acheson

Great Britain has lost an Empire and has not yet found a role. – Dean Acheson
We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation. – Dean Acheson
The manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured. – Dean Acheson
A memorandum is not written to inform the reader, but to protect the writer. – Dean Acheson
To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers, but extremely fit for a nation that is governed by shopkeepers. – Adam Smith