Cold War Quotes

364 Cold War quotes by 215 unique authors

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
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
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
We in this country, in this generation, are, by destiny rather than choice, the watchmen on the walls of world freedom. — John F. Kennedy
He was, albeit only briefly, the hero of the world's hopes. — Unknown Author
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
Asked if Stalin was an antisemite, Robert Conquest replied: Yes, but it hardly noticed. He was broadly and generously anti-human. — John Derbyshire
The 20th century ended with a single surviving model of human progress. — George W. Bush
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
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
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
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
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
No Western nation has to build a wall round itself to keep its people in. — Margaret Thatcher
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
We speak of peace, yes, but whose peace? Poland's? Bulgaria's? The peace of the grave? — Margaret Thatcher
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
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
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
To persuade thinking persons in Eastern Europe that Central American Marxists - the Sandinistas, the guerillas in El Salvador - are in absurd and tragic… — Michael Novak
When Marxist dictators shoot their way into power in Central America, the Democrats don't blame the guerrillas and their Soviet allies, they blame United States'… — Jeane Kirkpatrick
Communism will never be halted by negotiations or through the machinations of detente. It can only be halted by force from without or by disintegration… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Nowhere on the planet, nowhere in history, was there a regime more vicious, more bloodthirsty, and at the same time more cunning than the Bolshevik,… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
To reject this inhuman Communist ideology is simply to be a human being. Such a rejection is more than a political act. It is a… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Because the regime is captive to its own lies, it must falsify everything. It falsifies the past. It falsifies the present, and it falsifies the… — Vaclav Havel

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