Famous Quotes / George F. Kennan
George F. Kennan: "Not only the studying and writing of history but also the honoring of it both represent affirmations of a certain defiant faith - a desperate, unreasoning faith, if you will-but faith nevertheless in the endurance of this threatened world-faith in the total essentiality of historical continuity."
| Affirmations | Certain | Continuity | Defiant |
| Desperate | Endurance | Essentiality | Faith |
| Historical | History | Honoring | Nevertheless |
| Represent | Studying | Threatened | Total |
| Unreasoning | Willbut | Worldfaith | Writing |