George F. Kennan Quotes
Most popular George F. Kennan Quotes

Heroism is endurance for one moment more.

Heroism, the Caucasian mountaineers say, is endurance for one moment more.

The best thing we can do if we want the Russians to let us be Americans is to let the Russians be Russian.

California reminds me of the popular American Protestant concept of heaven: there is always a reasonable flow of new arrivals.

Russia, Russia — unwashed, backward, appealing Russia, so ashamed for your own backwardness, so orientally determined to conceal it from us by clever deceit.