Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
620
AUTHOR:
George Frost Kennan (1904– )
QUOTATION:
By this I mean that 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.
ATTRIBUTION:
GEORGE F. KENNAN, “The Two Planes of International Reality,” Realities of American Foreign Policy, p. 4 (1954).
This was originally delivered as the first of the Stafford Little Lectures, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, March 1954.
