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“Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.”
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“No people in history have ever survived, who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.”
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“Vietnam was worse than immoral — it was a mistake.”
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“Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role.”
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“Any nation which claims that this [North Atlantic] treaty is directed against it should be reminded of the Biblical admonition that 'The guilty flee when no man pursueth.”
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“Adlai has a third rate mind that he can't make up.”
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“Entwined with the strand of conservatism in the Democratic party is the strand of empiricism.”
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“He was succeeding admirably in communicating his own boredom to his audience.”
― Sketches from Life of Men I Have Known
― Sketches from Life of Men I Have Known
“We cannot seem to understand that we are playing for keeps in a deadly serious operation in which there are no rules, no umpire, no prizes for good boys, no dunce caps for bad boys. In this game good intentions are not worth a damn; moral principles are traps; weakness and indecision are fatal. This is what Americans have been taught since they went to Christian Endeavor meetings cannot and must not happen — “the law of the jungle,” where the judgment of nature upon error is death.
And so we commit every error of every sort against nature. We make ourselves unworthy of the trust of our allies, we disregard their interests, we join with their and our enemies to weaken, humiliate and destroy them and our alliance with them. We believe for some incomprehensible reason that the U.N. is some disembodied moral force apart from ourselves. We are elated when it serves as the front for the combination of Russian and American power which crushes our allies. This is principle. We turn away when American desires running counter to Russian have no more effect than a peashooter on a tank.
Dean Acheson to Harry S. Truman
December 4, 1956”
― Affection and Trust: The Personal Correspondence of Harry S. Truman and Dean Acheson, 1953-1971
And so we commit every error of every sort against nature. We make ourselves unworthy of the trust of our allies, we disregard their interests, we join with their and our enemies to weaken, humiliate and destroy them and our alliance with them. We believe for some incomprehensible reason that the U.N. is some disembodied moral force apart from ourselves. We are elated when it serves as the front for the combination of Russian and American power which crushes our allies. This is principle. We turn away when American desires running counter to Russian have no more effect than a peashooter on a tank.
Dean Acheson to Harry S. Truman
December 4, 1956”
― Affection and Trust: The Personal Correspondence of Harry S. Truman and Dean Acheson, 1953-1971
