I expressed skepticism, in the first chapter, about the utility of time machines in historical research. I especially advised against graduate studen…

- John Lewis Gaddis

Stalin’s postwar goals were security for himself, his regime, his country, and his ideology, in precisely that order.

- John Lewis Gaddis

It is worth starting with visions, though, because they establish hopes and fears. History then determines which prevail.

- John Lewis Gaddis

Revisionism is a healthy historiographical process, and no one, not even revisionists, should be exempt from it.

- John Lewis Gaddis

George Kennan and Paul Nitze were the Adams and Jefferson of the Cold War. They were there for the beginning, they witnessed its course over almost h…

- John Lewis Gaddis