We are, if territory and population be looked at together, one of the great countries of the world — a monster country, one might say, along with others such as China, India, the recent Soviet Union, and Brazil. And there is a real question as to whether "bigness" in a body politic is not an evil in itself, quite aside from the policies pursued in its name.


Around the Cragged Hill : A Personal and Political Philosophy (1994), p. 143

George F. Kennan Quotes

We are, if territory and population be looked at together, one of the great countries of the world — a monster country, one might say, along with...

We are, if territory and population be looked at together, one of the great countries of the world — a monster country, one might say, along with...

We are, if territory and population be looked at together, one of the great countries of the world — a monster country, one might say, along with...

We are, if territory and population be looked at together, one of the great countries of the world — a monster country, one might say, along with...