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
The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull. This is not always easy to achieve. – Dean Acheson
Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree. – Dean Acheson
The great corrupter of public man is the ego….Looking at the mirror distracts ones attention from the problem. – Dean Acheson
The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was, nor forward to what it might be, but living in the present and accepting it as it is now. – Anne Morrow Lindbergh