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Cold War Quotes by Ronald Reagan
- Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root.
- 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…
- 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…
- [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;…
- To this day, America is still the abiding alternative to tyranny. This is our purpose in the world, nothing more and nothing less.
- 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,…
- 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.
- If not us, who? And if not now, when?
- 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.
- 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…
- 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.
- Americans are hungering to feel proud and patriotic again.
- I didn't leave the Democratic party; the Democratic party left me.
- Liberals are people who think that being tough on crime means longer suspended sentences.
- Her many achievements will be appreciated more as time goes on.
- How does it feel to be the 's third choice? Humiliating? You could have thrown a dart. That's how close they were. We had so…
- By 1980, we knew it was time to renew our faith, to strive with all our strength toward the ultimate in individual freedom consistent with…
- If the Soviet Union let another political party come into existence, they would still be a one-party state, because everybody would join the other party.
- Here's my strategy on the Cold War: we win, they lose.
More Cold War Quotes
- Those who remember Washington's cold war culture in the 1980s will recall the shocked reactions to Reagan's intervention. People interested in foreign… — Russell Baker
- Strategic thinkers were naturally rattled to find this outsider fooling around with their work. They had been thinking strategically when Reagan was… — Russell Baker
- Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war. — Bernard Baruch
- For all history up to the end of the Cold War, summit meetings were historic and dramatic occasions, when leaders who controlled… — Conrad Black
- The threat today is not that of the 1930s. It's not big powers going to war with each other. The ravages which… — Tony Blair
- Since the attack on the United States on September 11 2001, and the US retaliation in Afghanistan and Iraq, there must be… — James Buchan
- The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do… — Madeleine Albright
- During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity. — John le Carre
- I worked for MI6 in the Sixties, during the great witch-hunts, when the shared paranoia of the Cold War gripped the services. — John le Carre
- When I was in the White House, I was confronted with the challenge of the Cold War. Both the Soviet Union and… — Jimmy Carter
- Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away. — Fidel Castro
- The rule for effective governance is simple. It is one Ronald Reagan knew by heart. And one that he successfully employed with… — Chris Christie