Cold Quotes

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If we let Korea down, the Soviet[s] will keep right on going and swallow up one [place] after another. — Harry S. Truman
Mr. Stevenson has a degree alright-a PhD from the Acheson College of Cowardly Communist Containment. — Richard M. Nixon
It will begin with its President taking a simple, firm resolution. The resolution will be: To forego the diversions of politics and to concentrate on… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Until this moment, Senator, I think I never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness....Let us not assassinate this lad further, senator. You have done… — Joseph N. Welch
This Government, as promised, has maintained the closest surveillance of the Soviet Military buildup on the island of Cuba. Within the past week, unmistakable evidence… — John F. Kennedy
We're eyeball to eyeball...and I think the other fellow just blinked. — Dean Rusk
We do this in order to slow down aggression. We do this to increase the confidence of the brave people of South Vietnam who have… — Lyndon B. Johnson
It is in that spirit, the spirit of '76, that I ask you to rise and join me in a toast to Chairman Mao, to… — Richard M. Nixon
From secrecy and deception in high places; come home, America. From military spending so wasteful that it weakens our nation; come home, America. From the… — George McGovern
My opinion of the Russians has changed most drastically in the last week than even (sic) the two-and-a-half years before that. It's only now dawning… — Jimmy Carter
Well, the task I've set forth will long outlive our own generation. But together, we too have come through the worst. Let us now begin… — Ronald Reagan
What if free people could live secure in the knowledge that their security did not rest upon the threat of instant U.S. retaliation to deter… — Ronald Reagan
But the biggest thing that has happened in the world in my life, in our lives, is this: By the grace of God, America won… — George H. W. Bush
Should the German people lay down their arms, the Soviets... would occupy all eastern and south-eastern Europe, together with the greater part of the [German]… — Joseph Goebbels
Although the shooting war is over, we are in the midst of a cold war which is getting warmer. — Bernard Baruch
Like apples in a barrel infected by one rotten one, the corruption of Greece would infect Iran and all to the east. It would also… — Dean Acheson
Not just in China, but everywhere in the world without exception, one either leans to the side of imperialism or the side of socialism. Neutrality… — Mao Zedong
This is the first time in my experience... that I ever heard of a Senator trying to discredit his own Government before the world.... Your… — Harry S. Truman
I suppose that history will remember my term in office as the years when the Cold War began to overshadow our lives. I have hardly… — Harry S. Truman
I will not get into a pissing contest with that skunk [Joseph McCarthy]. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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