Dean Acheson Quotes and Quotations
Americans assume Canada to be bestowed as a right and accept this bounty, as they do air, without thought or appreciation. Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role. The future comes one day at a time. The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull. This is not always easy to achieve. Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree. A memorandum is written to protect the writer - not to inform his reader. The future comes one day at a time.
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