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George F. Kennan Quotes
Page 1 of 1George F. Kennan
February 16, 1904 - March 17, 2005
Nationality: American
Category: Historian
Subcategory: American Historian
|  The accords were fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship. | | Heroism is endurance for one moment more. | | 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. | | One sometimes feels a guest of one's time and not a member of its household. | | 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. | | The best thing we can do if we want the Russians to let us be Americans is to let the Russians be Russian. |
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