More from George F. Kennan

  1. The average Russian of mature age today may some day have the moral satisfaction of seeing his government exercise a power unprecedented in…
  2. It was his enormous curiosity that kept him alive so long. He had an enormous interest in the world, and I remember, even toward the end, h…
  3. Here, for the first time, I felt an unshakable conviction that no momentary military advantage - even if such could have been calculated to…
  4. A democracy is peace-loving. It does not like to go to war. It is slow to rise to provocation. When it has once been provoked to the point …
  5. There are certain sad appreciations we have to come to about human nature on the basis of these recent wars. One of them is that suffering …
  6. We must be very careful when we speak of exercising 'leadership' in Asia. We are deceiving ourselves and others when we pretend to have ans…
  7. A doctrine is something that pins you down to a given mode of conduct and dozens of situations which you cannot foresee, which is a great m…
  8. Whenever you have a possibility of going in two ways, either for peace or for war, for peaceful methods of for military methods, in the pre…

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