Cold War Quotes

364 Cold War quotes by 215 unique authors

You're in there with me. Personally. — John F. Kennedy
We've spent half the expenditures, we've wrecked our budget on all these other domestic programs, and the only justification for it, in my opinion, to… — John F. Kennedy
We will not prematurely or unnecessarily risk the costs of a worldwide nuclear war in which even the fruits of victory would be ashes in… — John F. Kennedy
We don't propose to sit here in our rocking chair with our hands folded and let the Communists set up any government in the Western… — Lyndon B. Johnson
We Communists have to string along with the capitalists for a while. We need their agriculture and their technology. — Leonid Brezhnev
Detente is a readiness to resolve differences and conflicts not by force, not by threats and sabre-rattling, but by peaceful means, at the conference table. — Leonid Brezhnev
It's expensive to keep communism alive today. I've already got a huge foreign debt staring me in the face, and I can't reduce it by… — Nicolae Ceausescu
With what moral authority can [the US] speak of human rights... the rulers of a nation in which the millionaire and beggar coexist; where the… — Fidel Castro
I hate extremes of any kind. Communism [seeks] the domination of the state over the individual... All my life I have stood against banning Communism… — Margaret Thatcher
[The Soviets] preach the supremacy of the state, declare its omnipotence over individual man, and predict its eventual domination of all peoples on the earth;… — Ronald Reagan
When he saw injustice, he wanted to do away with it. He saw communism, and he wanted to put an end to it. — Lech Walesa
The Cold War was waged in a particularly brutal and cynical way in Africa, and Africa seemed powerless to do anything to stop it. — Ryszard Kapuscinski
We will always apply the same principles of collective security, prudent caution, and superior weaponry that enabled us to peacefully prevail in the long cold… — Theodore C. Sorensen
...the high roads of the future will be clear, not only for us but for all, not only for our time but for a century… — Winston Churchill
There is the solution which I respectfully offer to you in this Address to which I have given the title "The Sinews of Peace." — Winston Churchill
The Cold War in Africa is one of the darkest, most disgraceful pages in contemporary history, and everybody ought to be ashamed. — Ryszard Kapuscinski
Secrecy is for losers. . . . It is time to dismantle government secrecy, this most persuasive of Cold War-era regulations. It is time to… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan
So I ask the nuclear powers to abandon the out-of-date thinking of the Cold War period and take a fresh look. Above all, I appeal… — Joseph Rotblat
Well, I actually grew up in the sixties. I feel very lucky, actually, that that was my slice of time that I was dealt. Let's… — Ann Druyan
The new century has brought on its own terrible dangers, which although not reaching the apocalyptic potential of the Cold War, still have the capacity… — Adam Schiff

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