The great corrupter of public man is the ego….Looking at the mirror distracts ones attention from the problem. – Dean Acheson
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
We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation. – 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