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George F. Kennan

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The truth is sometimes a poor competitor in the market place of ideas – complicated, unsatisfying, full of dilemmas, always vulnerable to misinterpretation and abuse.


— George F. Kennan


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Heroism is endurance for one moment more.


— George F. Kennan


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One sometimes feels a guest of one's time and not a member of its household.


— George F. Kennan


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The accords were fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship.


— George F. Kennan


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


— George F. Kennan


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S. (1972) Memoirs: 1950–1963 Boston: Little Brown and Company OCLC 4047526 . To counter this potential source of Soviet influence Kennan's solution was to direct economic aid and covert political help to Japan and Western Europe to revive Western governments and prop up international capitalism; by doing so the United States would help to rebuild the balance of power.

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