“It is an undeniable privilege of every man to prove himself right in the thesis that the world is his enemy; for if he reiterates it frequently enough and makes it the background of his conduct he is bound eventually to be right.”

About George F. Kennan

Diplomat • American

George Frost Kennan was an American diplomat and historian best known as an advocate of the policy of containment of Soviet expansion during the Cold War. He anonymously authored the influential "X Article" in Foreign...