We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation.
Dean AchesonI 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.
Dean AchesonTo leave positions of great responsibility and authority is to die a little, but the time comes when that must be faced.
Dean Acheson