We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation. – 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 am sorry.. Can only say time accelerated and skidded…. When my correspondents reproach me for tardiness, I can only say that I give as much attention to a letter as I do to anything I write, and I work at least six and sometimes sixteen hours a day. – William S. Burroughs, letter to Mother and Dad, 1959