Quotes by Dean Rusk

• While we are sleeping, two-thirds of the world is plotting to do us in.
• We have tried to make it clear that the United States is not just an old cow that gives more milk the more it is kicked in the flanks.
• The usual cause of evil in the world is that at any given time half the people in the world are awake.
• Physicists and astronomers see their own implications in the world being round, but to me it means that only one-third of the world is asleep at any given time and the other two-thirds is up to something.
• One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears by listening to them.
• Continuity does not rule out fresh approaches to fresh situations.
• The best way to persuade people is with your ears - by listening to them.