Cold War Quotes

364 Cold War quotes by 215 unique authors

My dear fellow citizens: For forty years you have heard from my predecessors on this day different variations of the same theme: how our country… — Vaclav Havel
The previous regime ... reduced man to a means of production and nature to a tool of production. Thus it attacked both their very essence… — Vaclav Havel
We were happy a hundred years ago. We knew that there were exploiters and exploited, wealthy and poor, and we had a perfect idea of… — Leszek Kolakowski
Gorbachev gave us freedom of worship and freedom of speech and freedom to see what was going on and freedom to vote, but that freedom… — Boris Yeltsin
If we are safe today, it is because America has stood with us. If we are to remain safe tomorrow, it will be because America… — Margaret Thatcher
The International Brigade was not formed to protect freedom and democracy. It was founded as a tool of of the Comintern, to promote the interests… — Kevin Myers
In America, any man who is not a reactionary in his views is open to the charge of alliance with the Red hell. — Arthur Miller
We cannot risk living all our lives under emergency measures. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
In opposing Communism, we are defeating ourselves if we use methods that do not conform to the American sense of justice. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
We must face the fact that peace must be built on power, as well as upon good will and good deeds. — Harry S. Truman
The United States should not under any circumstances throw away our gun until we are sure the rest of the world cannot arm against us. — Harry S. Truman
Wars are not caused by the buildup of weapons. They are caused when an aggressor believes he can achieve his objectives at an acceptable price. — Margaret Thatcher
Isn't a policy of conventional weapons, with the terrible bombs raining down, with the missiles, with the aircraft, with the submarines, with the torpedoes, with… — Margaret Thatcher
We're saying to anyone who dares to attack us, Do not do it, you couldn't win, the result would be devastating! I think you're saying… — Margaret Thatcher
To this day, America is still the abiding alternative to tyranny. This is our purpose in the world, nothing more and nothing less. — Ronald Reagan
We're here to mark that day in history when the Allied peoples joined in battle to reclaim this continent to liberty. For four long years,… — Ronald Reagan
We can meet our destiny, and that destiny to build a land here that will be, for all mankind, a shining city on a hill. — Ronald Reagan
If not us, who? And if not now, when? — Ronald Reagan
The other day, someone told me the difference between a democracy and a people's democracy. It's the same difference between a jacket and a straitjacket. — Ronald Reagan
An old Russian woman goes into Kremlin, gets an audience with Mikhail Gorbachev and says, In America anyone can go to the White House, walk… — Ronald Reagan
Intelligence reports say Castro is very worried about me. I'm very worried that we can't come up with something to justify his worrying. — Ronald Reagan
Americans are hungering to feel proud and patriotic again. — Ronald Reagan
I didn't leave the Democratic party; the Democratic party left me. — Ronald Reagan
Liberals are people who think that being tough on crime means longer suspended sentences. — Ronald Reagan
Reagan survived the Iran-Contra scandal because the elements of it that were illegal (aiding anti-communist Nicaraguans) were popular and the things that were unpopular (arming… — David Frum

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