The great corrupter of public man is the ego….Looking at the mirror distracts ones attention from the problem. – Dean Acheson
No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies. – Dean Acheson
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time. – Dean Acheson
I is a militant social tendency, working to hold and enlarge its place in the general current of tendencies. So far as it can it waxes, as all life does. To think of it as apart from society is a palpable absurdity of which no one could be guilty who really saw it as a fact of life. – Charles Horton Cooley