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Vietnam was worse than immoral — it was a mistake.
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He smiled with the spontaneity of a mechanical tiger.
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… talk should precede, not follow, the issuance of orders.
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He struck me as looking like a pear on top of two toothpicks.
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Controversial proposals, once accepted, soon become hallowed.
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In the State Department, one never lacks for helpful suggestions.
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The rarest gift that God bestows on man is the capacity for decision.
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A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
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A "mixture of frustration and progress is the daily grind of foreign affairs."
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Unfortunately, the hyperbole of the inaugural outran the provisions of the budget.
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The simple truth is that perseverance in good policies is the only avenue to success...
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The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull. This is not always easy to achieve.
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... to tell a tale of large conceptions, great achievements... Its hero is the American people.
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The best environment for diplomacy is found where mutual confidence between governments exists...
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Not all the arts of diplomacy are learned solely in its practice. There are other exercise yards.
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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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I have a curious and apprehensive feeling as I watch JFK that he is sort of an Indian snake charmer.
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President Truman used to say that budget figures revealed far more of proposed policy than speeches.
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An extraordinary man. A real Centaur—part man, part horse's ass. A rough appraisal, but curiously true.
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… the situation was still too delicate for complete candor and the ultimate truth too unformed for statement.
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Force can overcome force, but a free society cannot long steel itself to dominate another people by sheer force.
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Time spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of footbinding.
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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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I've never for one moment believed that the holding of office was a source of power – it was an obligation of service.
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The position of the United States had undergone a drastic change; the purpose and capabilities of the State Department had not.
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Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.
Ignazio Silone
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Born:
April 11, 1893
Died:
October 12, 1971
(aged 78)
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