"Well, I was living it, but a shared dream half-lived is a hollow thing"

“My gift of John Marshall to the people of the United States was the proudest act of my life. There is no act of my life on which I reflect with more pleasure. I have given to my country a judge equal to a Hole, Holt, or a Mansfield.”

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

Source : 1962 Speech at West Point military academy, 5 Dec. According to the New York Times, 23 Nov1969, Prime Minister Harold Wilson later countered,'Mr Acheson is a distinguished figure who has lost a State Department and not yet found himself a role'.

“Discussion is impossible with someone who claims not to seek the truth, but already to possess it.”

“Drink has shed more blood, hung more crepe, sold more homes, plunged more people into bankruptcy, armed more villains, slain more children, snapped more wedding rings, defiled more innocence, blinded more eyes, dethroned more reason, wrecked more manhood, dishonored more womanhood, broken more hearts, blasted more lives, driven more to suicide and dug more graves than any other evil that has cursed the world.”

“I love going to London for a couple of days but I need to be in the country. I like the silence, the smell and the seasonal changes, especially in spring and summer. I really feel that I belong there.”

“We should try to introduce our children to science today as a rebellion against poverty and ugliness and militarism and economic injustice.”

“I'm not one of those actors who romanticizes his trials working out and brags that he can bench press a panda now.”

“If an invisible man catches on fire, can you see him burn?”