The trouble with a free market economy is that it requires so many policemen to make it work.
Dean Acheson[President Truman] was free of the greatest vice in a leader, his ego never came between him and his job.
Dean AchesonNegotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.
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 Acheson