Cold Quotes
3580 quotes by 2210 authors
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There is some risk involved in action, there always is. But there is far more risk in failure to act.
— Harry S. Truman
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We have won an armistice on a single battlefield, not peace in our world. We may not now relax our guard nor cease our quest.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Forces of good and evil are massed and armed and opposed as rarely before in history. Freedom is pitted against slavery; lightness against the dark...…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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If Berlin fell, the US would lose Europe, and if Europe fell into the hands of the Soviet Union and thus added its great industrial…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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We in this country, in this generation, are, by destiny rather than choice, the watchmen on the walls of world freedom.
— John F. Kennedy
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He was, albeit only briefly, the hero of the world's hopes.
— Unknown Author
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The argument, now, is about whether Bolshevik Russia was 'better' than Nazi Germany. In the days when the New Left dawned, the argument was about…
— Martin Amis
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Asked if Stalin was an antisemite, Robert Conquest replied: Yes, but it hardly noticed. He was broadly and generously anti-human.
— John Derbyshire
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The 20th century ended with a single surviving model of human progress.
— George W. Bush
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Every generation has its war. I have just been reminded of mine. It ended in 1989, 43 years after it began, the longest war Britain…
— Simon Jenkins
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Peter Beinart excoriates the doughface liberals who during the Cold War put anti-imperialism before anti-totalitarianism and demanded total moral purity on the part of the…
— Rich Lowry
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My parents, who were Communists, always pretended to be American patriots. You can always convince yourself you are: 'I love America, I just want it…
— David Horowitz
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Remind me: who was the greater mass murderer, Stalin or Hitler? Well, Stalin is thought to have been responsible for about 50 million deaths, and…
— Boris Johnson
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The Soviet Union was brought down by a strange global coalition of Western European conservatives, Eastern European nationalists, Russian liberals, Chinese communists, and Afghan Islamic…
— David Frum
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No Western nation has to build a wall round itself to keep its people in.
— Margaret Thatcher
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Their pitiless ideology only survives because it is maintained by force. But the day comes when the anger and frustration of the people is so…
— Margaret Thatcher
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We speak of peace, yes, but whose peace? Poland's? Bulgaria's? The peace of the grave?
— Margaret Thatcher
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The social model of the Bolsheviks failed, as will any model that denies individual rights, intellectual freedom, and freedom of competing political parties. Without these…
— Mikhail Gorbachev
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We Americans understand freedom; we have earned it, we have lived for it, and we have died for it. This nation and its people are…
— Barry Goldwater
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To coexist with communism on the same planet is impossible. Either it will spread, cancer-like, to destroy mankind, or else mankind will have to rid…
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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