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How could the USA champion individual freedom in the world generally while denying it to an important minority in its own country.

— Dean Acheson

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

Vietnam was worse than immoral — it was a mistake.

The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull. This is not always easy to achieve.

I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe holding public office.

Acheson "never for one moment believed that the holding of office was a source of power – it was an obligation of service."

Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department (1969)

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