Dean Acheson - American Quotes

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Comrades... played a vital role in setting the main lines of American foreign policy for many years to come and... they may feel in their hearts that it was nobly done.

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The conclusion was... unpalatable to believers in American omnipotence, to whom every goal unattained is explicable only by incompetence or treason.

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... to tell a tale of large conceptions, great achievements... Its hero is the American people.

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I did not share President's view on the Palestine solution... The number that could be absorbed by Arab Palestine without creating a grave political problem would be inadequate, and to transform the country into a Jewish state capable of receiving a million or more immigrants would vastly exacerbate the political problem and imperil not only American but all Western influence in the Near East.

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My constant appeal to American liberals was to face the long, hard years and not to distract us with the offer of short cuts and easy solutions begotten by good will out of the angels of man's better nature... The road to freedom and peace is a hard one.

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Throughout the Near East lay rare tinder for anti-Western propaganda: a Moslem culture and history, bitter Arab nationalism galled by Jewish immigration under British protection and with massive American financial support, the remnants of a colonial status, and a sense of grievance that a vast natural resource was being extracted by foreigners under arrangements thought unfair to those living on the surface. This tinder could be, and was, lighted everywhere...

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