Occupation: Former United States Secretary Of State Birth: April 11, 1893 Death: October 12, 1971
You can't argue with a river, it isgoing to flow.You can dam it up?put it to useful purposes?deflect it, but you can't argue with it..
Greatness is a quality of character and is not the result of circumstances..
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time. The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time..
Great Britain has lost an Empire and has not yet found a role..
The limitations imposed by democratic political practices makes it difficult to conduct our foreign affairs in the national interest..
No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies..
The test for aid to poor nations is therefore whether it makes them capable of being productive. If it fails to do so, it is likely to make them even….
Like apples in a barrel infected by one rotten one, the corruption of Greece would infect Iran and all to the east. It would also carry infection to ….
Brains are no substitute for judgement..
A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer..
Always remember that the future comes one day at a time..
I learned from the example of my father that the manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endur….
The great corrupter of public men is the ego - corrupter because distracter. Wealth, sensuality, power cannot hold a candle to it. Looking in the mir….
With a nation, as with a boxer, one of the greatest assurances of safety is to add reach to power..
To leave positions of great responsibility and authority is to die a little, but the time comes when that must be faced..
I have almost invariably found that charm is used as a substitute for intelligence in persons of both sexes. Thus, I have always been and will remain….
Great Britain has lost an Empire and not yet found a role. The attempt to playa separate power rolethat is, a role apart from Europe, based on a spec….
The trouble with a free market economy is that it requires so many policemen to make it work..
The future comes one day at a time [so don't fear and try to solve all the worries and problems of the future today]..
I doubt very much if a man whose main literary interests were in works by Mr. Zane Grey, admirable as they may be, is particularly equipped to be the….
Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree..