Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up.

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  The manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be

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  The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.

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  The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull.

• Dean Acheson:

  Negotiating in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.

• Dean Acheson:

  We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument

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  I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say

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  A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.

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  Controversial proposals, once accepted, soon become hallowed.

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  It is worse than immoral, it's a mistake.

• Dean Acheson:

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