Unfortunately, the hyperbole of the inaugural outran the provisions of the budget. - Dean Acheson

My constant appeal to American liberals was to face the long, hard years and not to distract us with the offer of short cuts and easy solutions begotten by good will out of the angels of man's better nature...The road to freedom and peace is a hard one.

a "mixture of frustration and progress is the daily grind of foreign affairs."

The position of the United States had undergone a drastic change; the purpose and capabilities of the State Department had not.