Cold War Quotes

364 Cold War quotes by 215 unique authors

But through world wars and a Great Depression, through painful social upheaval and a Cold War, and now through the attacks of September 11, 2001,… — Nick Rahall
It has always struck me as the world's great fortune that the two great superpowers were the United States and the Soviet Union, who managed… — George Friedman
Our rockets can find Halley's comet, and fly to Venus with amazing accuracy, but side by side with these scientific and technical triumphs is an… — Mikhail Gorbachev
I want to say, and this is very important: at the end we lucked out. It was luck that prevented nuclear war. We came that… — Robert McNamara
For 40 years we were led to think of the Russians as godless, materialistic and an evil empire. When the Cold War ended, we suddenly… — Norman Mailer
It was man who ended the Cold War in case you didn't notice. It wasn't weaponry, or technology, or armies or campaigns. It was just… — John le Carre
So you're quite right that when... as the Cold War grew and expanded out of Europe, we ourselves had to take refuge behind the shield… — E. Howard Hunt
But scientists on both sides of the iron curtain played a very significant role in maintaining the momentum of the nuclear arms race throughout the… — Joseph Rotblat
I can deal with Stalin. He is honest, but smart as hell. — Harry S. Truman
I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or… — Harry S. Truman
The defensive perimeter [of the United States in East Asia] runs along the Aleutians to Japan and then goes to the Ryukyus. — Dean Acheson
While I cannot take the time to name all the men in the State Department who have been named as members of the Communist Party… — Joseph McCarthy
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

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