Cold War Quotes

364 Cold War quotes by 215 unique authors

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
When the wind is right, a faint odor of kerosene is exhaled from Senator McCarthy. — Ray Bradbury
The junior Senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatred of uninformed and credulous people that he has… — J. William Fulbright
The individual comes face-to-face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists. The American mind has not come to a realisation of the… — J. Edgar Hoover
Restraint? Why are you so concerned with saving their lives? The whole idea is to kill the bastards. At the end of the war if… — Thomas S. Power
I am not a dictator, and I do not think I will become one. I will not maintain power with a machine gun. — Fidel Castro
I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement, but we do not have to say that we are anticommunists just to fawn… — Fidel Castro
To give [the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba] even covert support is on a par with the hypocrisy and cynicism for which the United… — J. William Fulbright
You [President Kennedy] have made some pretty strong statements about their being defensive and that we would take action against offensive weapons. I think that… — Curtis LeMay

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