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„Denken Sie immer daran, dass die Zukunft Tag für Tag kommt.“

Dean Acheson

Zukunft , Denken

Dean Acheson: Zitate auf Englisch

“I soon discovered that the greater part of a day in Old State was devoted to meetings. Where the boundaries of jurisdiction were fuzzy or overlapping, meetings became inevitable. Most questions affected a number of functional and geographic divisions…These meetings gave the illusion of action, but often frustrated it by attempting to reconcile the irreconcilable. What was most often needed was not compromise but decision.”

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Dean Acheson buch Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department

Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department (1969), State Department Management, Leadership Perspectives

“The best environment for diplomacy is found where mutual confidence between governments exists…”

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Dean Acheson buch Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department

Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department (1969), Principles

“The heads of these divisions, like barons in a feudal system weakened at the top by mutual suspicion and jealousy between king and prince, were constantly at odds if not at war…For the most part the barons were knowledgeable people performing in a way the times had completely outdated, a fact of which they were quite unaware.”

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Dean Acheson buch Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department

Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department (1969), State Department Management, Leadership Perspectives

“The experiences of the years…have brought the country, particularly its young people, to a mood of depression, disillusion, and withdrawal from the effort to affect the world.”

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Dean Acheson buch Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department

Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department (1969), Purpose of the Book

“The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull.”

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Oxford dictionary of quotations

“… talk should precede, not follow, the issuance of orders.”

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Dean Acheson buch Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department

Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department (1969), Principles

“How could the USA champion individual freedom in the world generally while denying it to an important minority in its own country.”

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Civil rights in the USA, 1863 - 1980 , 2001, Page 107.

“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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Dean Acheson buch Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department

Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department (1969), Principles

“It is a mistake to interpret too literally and sweepingly the poet's admonition that things are not what they seem. Sometimes they are, and it is often essential to survival to know when they are and when they are not.”

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Dean Acheson buch Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department

Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department (1969), Principles

“147, on the situation in Greece: "imminent collapse due to mounting guerrilla activity, supplied and directed from outside, economic chaos, and the Greek governmental inability to meet the crisis."”

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Dean Acheson buch Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department

Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department (1969), Truman Doctrine, Cold War

“The test for aid to poor nations is therefore whether it makes them capable of being productive. If it fails to do so, it is likely to make them even poorer in the – not so very – long run.”

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Dean Acheson buch Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department

Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department (1969), Foreign Aid

“President Truman used to say that budget figures revealed far more of proposed policy than speeches.”

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Dean Acheson buch Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department

Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department (1969), Budget Perspectives

“The simple truth is that perseverance in good policies is the only avenue to success…”

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Dean Acheson buch Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department

Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department (1969), Principles

“If I have said nothing new tonight, it may well be because, in a family of nations as in families of individuals we should expect nothing more sensational than growth.”

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Dean Acheson buch Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department

Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department (1969), Principles

“When Acheson was first joined State as Assistant Secretary for Economic Affairs, he writes the following in a section entitled "My Search for a Function"…"My official duties were summed up in the Department of State Bulletin by misleading platitudes…Both (Secretary) Hull and the President…knew me and, surely, had not asked me into the Department to perform the largely nonexistent duties defined in the Bulletin."”

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Dean Acheson buch Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department

Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department (1969), State Department Management, Leadership Perspectives

“Great Britain has lost an Empire and has not yet found a role.”

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Speech at West Point (5 December 1962), in Vital Speeches, January 1, 1963, page 163.

“Plainly plenty of work was waiting to be done. The question was: would the State Department do it? I proposed to have a shot at finding out.”

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Dean Acheson buch Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department

Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department (1969), State Department Management, Leadership Perspectives

“… the situation was still too delicate for complete candor and the ultimate truth too unformed for statement.”

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Dean Acheson buch Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department

Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department (1969), Principles

“…old inhabitants of the bureaucratic jungle like (Secretary) Hull knew that Cabinet boards and committees were paper tigers. They made a fine show in a parade but soon dissolved in the rain…After attend a few meetings (of this board), the Secretary deputized me to 'explain his absence' and substitute for him.”

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Dean Acheson buch Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department

Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department (1969), State Department Management, Leadership Perspectives

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