Cold war Quotes · Page 2

“Freedom is not free”

— Ronald Reagan

By the grace of God, we won the Cold War.

— George H. W. Bush

The cold war is over; Japan won.

— Paul Tsongas

“War is hot, not cold.”

— Kenneth Eade

"World War III, was the Cold War".

— R. James Woolsey, Jr

Leading with its values gave the United States a sense of purpose in the Cold War.

— Tom Malinowski

“A blanket could be used to stop a war, particularly if that war is a Cold War. 
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— Jarod Kintz

Nothing says January like a brand new Cold War.

— Gossip Girl

I will not get into a pissing contest with that skunk [Joseph McCarthy].

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

The United States particularly abandoned Liberia after the end of the Cold War.

— Russell Banks

They [The Soviet Union] are the focus of evil in the modern world.

— Ronald Reagan

Blue jeans and Hollywood and rock & roll won the cold war.

— Ben Dreyfuss

The only answer to a regime that wages total cold war is to wage total peace.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

I have opposed the Communist cold war line ever since, both by public utterance and by private help to trade unionists breaking…

— Earl Browder

Liberals are people who think that being tough on crime means longer suspended sentences.

— Ronald Reagan

The defensive perimeter [of the United States in East Asia] runs along the Aleutians to Japan and then goes to the Ryukyus.

— Dean Acheson

The Cold War is over. The kind of authority that the presidents asserted during the Cold War has now been diminished.

— Robert Dallek

The Cold War practice of garrisoning large numbers of troops with their families on massive bases in places like Germany is now,…

— Robert C. O'Brien

There are no unemployed, either in Russia or in Dartmoor jail, and for the same reason.

— Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden

We are plunging headlong into a cold war, and we have 2,000 nuclear weapons on hair-trigger alert.

— Jill Stein

“Why did I decide to write cyber thrillers? Because we've gone from the Cold War to the Code War.”

— Thomas Waite

“On the black cotton was printed a white skull and crossbones - the skull head grinning as if he were mocking her.…

— Victoria Dougherty

Overall, the best formula for maintaining stability in post-Cold War Europe is for all the great powers - including Germany and Ukraine…

— John Mearsheimer

It was the time of the Cold War and so there were was a lot of pressure on the - to get…

— John Glenn

We probably haven't seen the variety and diversity of threats to Americans' safety and well-being and our national security in a long,…

— Dan Coats

I just don't see this old idea of the Red peril, itching to take over the world. I think you can explain…

— John Anderson

The new century has brought on its own terrible dangers, which although not reaching the apocalyptic potential of the Cold War, still…

— Adam Schiff

It is no coincidence that when the thugs tried to wrest control over Grenada, there were 30 Soviet advisors and hundreds of…

— Ronald Reagan

I grew up in the American South, the segregated South. Now we have a black man who is president. It was an…

— Lawrence Wright

We were happy a hundred years ago. We knew that there were exploiters and exploited, wealthy and poor, and we had a…

— Leszek Kolakowski

I found a lot of stuff that's never been seen before. That was the goal: to not use cliché Cold War footage…

— Gabe Polsky

America was good enough to make a small compact lighter weight nuclear weapon. The Russians still had these big clunky heavy ones,…

— Burt Rutan

“There was, apparently, a nuclear reactor at a place called Indian Point, just thirty miles away in Westchester County. If something bad…

— Joseph O'Neill

“Life is short and you die at the end of it. But everyone wants to have a sense of purpose for their…

— Violet Weed

“For we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its…

— John F. Kennedy

“However, we should not confuse ability with motivation. Though cyber warfare introduces new means of destruction, it doesn’t necessarily add new incentives…

— Yuval Noah Harari

When others spoke of the fear of war, you spoke of the need for warriors and peace through strength. When others bewailed…

— Margaret Thatcher

Ronald Reagan won the Cold War without firing a shot.

— Margaret Thatcher

There can be no whitewash at the White House.

— Richard M. Nixon

I can deal with Stalin. He is honest, but smart as hell.

— Harry S. Truman