The great corrupter of public man is the ego….Looking at the mirror distracts ones attention from the problem. – Dean Acheson
The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull. This is not always easy to achieve. – Dean Acheson
Controversial proposals, once accepted, soon become hallowed. – Dean Acheson
A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer. – 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