Dean Acheson - Foreign 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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My memory... is of a department without direction, composed of a lot of busy people working hard and usefully but as a whole not functioning as a foreign office. It did not chart a course to be furthered by the success of our arms, or to aid or guide our arms. Rather it seems to have been adrift carried hither and yon by the currents of war or pushed about by collisions with more purposeful craft.

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There is perhaps nothing more important in the world today than the steadiness and consistency of the foreign policy of this Republic. Too much depends on the United States for us to indulge in the luxury of either undue pessimism or premature optimism.

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A "mixture of frustration and progress is the daily grind of foreign affairs."

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