Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.

- Dean Acheson

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…

- Dean Acheson

Greatness is a quality of character and is not the result of circumstances.

- Dean Acheson

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

- Dean Acheson

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…

- Dean Acheson

Great Britain has lost an Empire and has not yet found a role.

- Dean Acheson

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 …

- Dean Acheson

Brains are no substitute for judgement.

- 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