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: | This was originally delivered as the first of the Stafford Little Lectures, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, March 1954. |
SUBJECTS: | Foreign policy |