We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation.
Dean Acheson
A memorandum is not written to inform the reader, but to protect the writer.
Dean Acheson
It is worse than immoral, it's a mistake.
Dean Acheson
Negotiating in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.
Dean Acheson
Great Britain has lost an Empire and has not yet found a role.
Dean Acheson
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.