Citas de 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 endured.

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  Father, Keys, Important

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• Lo mejor del futuro es que llega de un día para otro. Lo mejor del futuro es que llega de un día para otro.

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  Future, Live In The Moment, One Day

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• Recuerda siempre que el futuro llega día a día.

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  Inspiración, motivación, cambio

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• I think Churchill is right, the only thing to be said for democracy is that there is nothing else that's any better, and therefore he used to say, Tyranny tempered by assassination, but lots of assassination. People say, If the Congress were more representative of the people it would be better. I say the Congress is too damn representative. It's just as stupid as the people are; just as uneducated, just as dumb, just as selfish.

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  Stupid, Selfish, Thinking

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• Brains are no substitute for judgement.

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  Judgement, Brain, Substitutes

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• No ha sobrevivido ningún pueblo en la historia que pensara que podía proteger su libertad haciéndose inofensivo para sus enemigos.

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  People, Enemy, Protect

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• Un memorándum no se redacta para informar al lector, sino para proteger al redactor.

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  Funny, Accountability, Political

  Quoted in Wall Street Journal, 8 Sept. 1977

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

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  History, Roles, Empires

  Speech at U.S. Military Academy,West Point, N.Y., 5 Dec. 1962

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• La negociación en el sentido diplomático clásico supone que las partes están más dispuestas a llegar a un acuerdo que a discrepar.

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  Inspirational, Party, Agree To Disagree

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• Como manzanas en un barril infectadas por una podrida, la corrupción de Grecia infectaría a Irán y a todo el este. También llevaría la infección a África a través de Asia Menor y Egipto, y a Europa a través de Italia y Francia, ya amenazadas por los partidos comunistas nacionales más fuertes de Europa Occidental. La Unión Soviética estaba haciendo una de las mayores apuestas de la historia con un coste mínimo. No era necesario apostar por todas las posibilidades. Incluso una o dos ofrecían inmensas ganancias. Nosotros y sólo nosotros estábamos en condiciones de romper la jugada.

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  Guerra, Partido, Dos

  "Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department". Book by Dean Acheson, 1969.

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

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  Character, Greatness, Quality

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• 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.

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  Rivers, Flow, Purpose

  On the fruitlessness of keeping Russian fishermen from waters that should be off limits. Quoted in David S McLellan Dean Acheson: The State Department Years (1976).

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• 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].

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  Worry, One Day At A Time, Trying

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• I have a curious and apprehensive feeling as I watch JFK that he is sort of an Indian snake charmer.

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  Snakes, Feelings, Watches

  Harry S. Truman, Dean Acheson (2010). “Affection and Trust: The Personal Correspondence of Harry S. Truman and Dean Acheson, 1953-1971”, p.275, Knopf

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• 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 wary of it.

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  Sex, Charm, Used

  "Al Sharpton Goes Hollywood". www.foxnews.com. March 13, 2004.

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• The limitations imposed by democratic political practices makes it difficult to conduct our foreign affairs in the national interest.

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  Practice, Political, Affair

  Dean Acheson (1967). “Private thoughts on public affairs: a citizen looks at Congress, and a Democrat looks at his party”

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• 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 special relationship with the United States, on being the head of the Commonwealthis about to be played out. Her Majesty's Government is now attempting, wisely in my opinion, to re-enter Europe.

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  Government, Europe, Special

  1962 Speech at West Point military academy, 5 Dec. According to the New York Times, 23 Nov1969, Prime Minister Harold Wilson later countered,'Mr Acheson is a distinguished figure who has lost a State Department and not yet found himself a role'.

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• The great corrupter of public men is the ego - corrupter because distracter. Wealth, sensuality, power cannot hold a candle to it. Looking in the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem.

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  Men, Mirrors, Ego Problem

  "History as Literature".

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• To leave positions of great responsibility and authority is to die a little, but the time comes when that must be faced.

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  Responsibility, Littles, Authority

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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.

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  Country, Usa, Champion

  "Civil Rights in the USA, 1863-1980". Book by David Paterson, Susan Willoughby, Doug Willoughby, 2001.

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• Vietnam was worse than immoral - it was a mistake.

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  Mistake, Vietnam, Immoral

  "Letter from America, 1946-2004". Book by Alistair Cooke, 2004.

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• 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 poorer in the - not so very - long run.

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  Running, Long, Poor Nations

  "Present At The Creation: My Years In The State Department". Book by Dean Acheson, 1969.

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• The trouble with a free market economy is that it requires so many policemen to make it work.

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  Trouble, Economy, Free Market

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• With a nation, as with a boxer, one of the greatest assurances of safety is to add reach to power.

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  Safety, Add, Boxers

  Alluding to US bases in Europe. Quoted in James B Reston Deadline (1991).

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• 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 chief executive of this country, particularly where Indian Affairs are concerned.

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  Country, Men, Political

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