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George F. Kennan Quotes
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Type: Historian Quotes Category: American Historian Quotes Date of Birth: February 16, 1904 Date of Death: March 17, 2005 Nationality: American Find on Amazon: George F. Kennan Related Authors: Christopher Lasch Stephen Ambrose Will Durant John Thorn Carter G. Woodson Daniel J. Boorstin David McCullough Kenneth Scott Latourette |
Heroism is endurance for one moment more.
George F. Kennan One sometimes feels a guest of one's time and not a member of its household. George F. Kennan The accords were fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship. George F. Kennan The best an American can look forward to is the lonely pleasure of one who stands at long last on a chilly and inhospitable mountaintop where few have been before, where few can follow and where few will consent to believe he has been. George F. Kennan The best thing we can do if we want the Russians to let us be Americans is to let the Russians be Russian. George F. Kennan The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning. George F. Kennan |
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