"Let them hate, so long as they fear." -- Lucius Accius "The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship." -- Marcel Achard "Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up." -- Dean Acheson "Controversial proposals, once accepted, soon become hallowed." -- Dean Acheson "A memorandum is written not to inform the reader, but to protect the writer." -- Dean Acheson "The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull. This is not always easy to achieve." -- Dean Acheson "I doubt very much if a man whose main literary interests were in works by Mr. Zane Grey, admirable as they may be, is particularly equipped to be the chief executive of this country, particularly where Indian Affairs are concerned." -- Dean Acheson...