"A political society does not live to conduct foreign policy; it would be more correct to say that it conducts foreign policy in order to live."
— George F. Kennan

January 1, 1970

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Sources

Lecture at Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey (March 1954); published in “The Two Planes of International Reality” in Realities of American Foreign Policy (1954), p. 4