The trouble with a free market economy is that it requires so many policemen to make it work.
Dean Acheson
The trouble with a free ...
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The great corrupter of public men is the ego - corrupter because distracter. Wealth, sensuality, power cannot hold a candle to it. Looking in the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem.
Dean Acheson
Controversial proposals, once accepted, soon become hallowed.
Dean Acheson
Americans assume Canada to be bestowed as a right and accept this bounty, as they do air, without thought or appreciation.
Dean Acheson
A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
Dean Acheson
Like apples in a barrel infected by one rotten one, the corruption of Greece would infect Iran and all to the east. It would also carry infection to Africa through Asia Minor and Egypt, and to Europe through Italy and France, already threatened by the strongest domestic Communist parties in Western Europe. The Soviet Union was playing one of the greatest gambles in history at minimal cost. It did not need to will all the possibilities. Even one or two offered immense gains. We and we alone were in a position to break up the play.
Dean Acheson
