George F. Kennan Quotes
Respect for the law is not an obligation which is exhausted or obliterated by willingness to accept the penalty for breaking it.
George F. Kennan, 1904-2005, Historian & U.S. Ambassador to Russia and Yugoslavia, New York Times Magazine, January 21, 1968
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Selling alcohol and running saloons were against the law then in Kansas but there was no effort to enforce it anywhere in Kansas. Carrie Nation went into saloons and literally smashed the classes, signs, mirrors and furniture with an ax.
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George Frost Kennan was an American diplomat and historian. He was best known as an advocate of a policy of containment of Soviet expansion during the Cold War. He lectured widely and wrote scholarly histories of the relations between the USSR and the United States. He was also one of the group of foreign policy elders known as "The Wise Men".
