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> [George W. Bush has much to evaluate: he has presided over the most sweeping redesign of U.S. grand strategy since the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-lewis-gaddis/george-w-bush-has-much-to-evaluate-he-has-presided-over-the-most/)

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## More by John Lewis Gaddis

> [“It’s not a very nice solution,” Kennedy acknowledged, “but a wall is a hell of a lot better than a war.”54 The president could…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-lewis-gaddis/it-s-not-a-very-nice-solution-kennedy-acknowledged-but-a-wall-is-a/)

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> [The United States came out of the 1990s, if anything, in an even greater position of hegemony and preeminence than it was at the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-lewis-gaddis/the-united-states-came-out-of-the-1990s-if-anything-in-an-even/)

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> [I don't think there is necessarily a contradiction between being a hegemonic power on the one hand and functioning multilaterally on the other.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-lewis-gaddis/i-don-t-think-there-is-necessarily-a-contradiction-between-being-a/)

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> [George W. Bush has much to evaluate: he has presided over the most sweeping redesign of U.S. grand strategy since the presidency of Franklin…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-lewis-gaddis/george-w-bush-has-much-to-evaluate-he-has-presided-over-the-most/)

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> [“Stalin’s first move, uncharacteristically, was to apologize to the Chinese comrades for having underestimated them: “Our opinions are not always correct,” he told a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-lewis-gaddis/stalin-s-first-move-uncharacteristically-was-to-apologize-to-the/)

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> [I think the way to think about the impact of Hiroshima is to think about it as a sudden shift in the balance of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-lewis-gaddis/i-think-the-way-to-think-about-the-impact-of-hiroshima-is-to-think/)

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> [“Thanks to an ingenious constitution, their geographical isolation from potential rivals, and a magnificent endowment of natural resources, the Americans managed to build an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-lewis-gaddis/thanks-to-an-ingenious-constitution-their-geographical-isolation-from/)

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> [Second terms in the White House open the way for second thoughts.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-lewis-gaddis/second-terms-in-the-white-house-open-the-way-for-second-thoughts/)

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> [“I can’t take communism nor can you, but to cross this bridge I would hold hands with the Devil.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-lewis-gaddis/i-can-t-take-communism-nor-can-you-but-to-cross-this-bridge-i-would/)

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> [“From 1957 through 1961, Khrushchev openly, repeatedly, and bloodcurdlingly threatened the West with nuclear annihilation. Soviet missile capabilities were so far superior to those…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-lewis-gaddis/from-1957-through-1961-khrushchev-openly-repeatedly-and/)

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> [“Historical consciousness therefore leaves you, as does maturity itself, with a simultaneous sense of your own significance and insignificance. Like Friedrich's wanderer, you dominate…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-lewis-gaddis/historical-consciousness-therefore-leaves-you-as-does-maturity-itself/)

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> [“His months of teaching experience were now a lost age of youth and innocence. He could no longer sit in his office at Fort…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-lewis-gaddis/his-months-of-teaching-experience-were-now-a-lost-age-of-youth-and/)

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> [If there is one great power, and the great power has taken upon itself the right to preempt and is choosing for itself when…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-lewis-gaddis/if-there-is-one-great-power-and-the-great-power-has-taken-upon-itself/)

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> [ “\[I\]n the interests of our common tasks, we must sometimes overlook their stupidities,” one Soviet official explained in 1973.” ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-lewis-gaddis/i-n-the-interests-of-our-common-tasks-we-must-sometimes-overlook/)

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> [“This is where the capitalists got it right: they were better than the communists at learning from history, because they never bought into any…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-lewis-gaddis/this-is-where-the-capitalists-got-it-right-they-were-better-than-the/)

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