Army Quote by George F. Kennan

Heroism is endurance for one moment more.

— George F. Kennan

We should not lose ourselves in vainglorious sohemes for changing human nature all over the planet. Rather, we should learn to view ourselves with…

— George F. Kennan

Forms of government are forged mainly in the fire of practice, not in the vacuum of theory. They respond to national character and to…

— George F. Kennan

“In the face of this situation we would be better off to dispense now with a number of the concepts which have underlined our…

— George F. Kennan

“If you accept a democratic system, this means that you are prepared to put up with those of its workings, legislative or administrative, with…

— George F. Kennan

War is a highly overrated tool of foreign policy.

— George F. Kennan

The jealous and intolerant eye of the Kremlin can distinguish, in the end, only vassals and enemies, and the neighbors of Russia, if they…

— George F. Kennan

Do people ever reflect, one wonders, that the best way to protect against the penetration of one's secrets by others is to have the…

— George F. Kennan

Actually, the inability of any society to resist immigration, the inability to find other solutions to the problem of employment at the lower, more…

— George F. Kennan

There is more respect to be won in the opinion of this world by a resolute and courageous liquidation of unsound positions than by…

— George F. Kennan

The nuclear bomb is the most useless weapon ever invented. It can be employed to no rational purpose. It is not even an effective…

— George F. Kennan

The United States cannot reshape other countries in its own image and that, with a few exceptions, its efforts to police the world are…

— George F. Kennan