Soviet Union Quotes
224 quotes by 168 authors
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What people recognize is that there's a fear that the United States is in an unstoppable decline. They see the rise of China, the rise…
— Michele Bachmann
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It would be enough for me to have the system of a jury of twelve versus the system of one judge as a basis for…
— Joseph Brodsky
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When I was in the White House, I was confronted with the challenge of the Cold War. Both the Soviet Union and I had 30,000…
— Jimmy Carter
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In the Soviet Union it was illegal to take a photograph of a train station. Look what happened to them. They tried to classify everything.
— Tom Clancy
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There used to be this country called the Soviet Union; it's not there anymore. Our technology was better than theirs.
— Tom Clancy
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In all countries, in all centuries, the primary reason for government to set up schools is to undermine the politically weak by convincing their children…
— Marshall Fritz
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General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here to…
— Ronald Reagan
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Then I was lucky I met with my future husband, and I started new life with my husband, and I was happy again. He was…
— Olga Korbut
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Imagine a room awash in gasoline, and there are two implacable enemies in that room. One of them has nine thousand matches. The other has…
— Carl Sagan
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A government that intended to protect the liberty of the people would not disarm them. A government planning the opposite most certainly and logically would…
— Charley Reese
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History knows no greater display of courage than that shown by the people of the Soviet Union.
— Henry L. Stimson
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I look at Obama, a young man, a good-looking person. That is my first impression, I feel sorry for him. He looks 100 percent like…
— Alexander Lukashenko
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The fall of the present bureaucratic dictatorship [in the Soviet Union], if it were not replaced by a new socialist power, would thus mean a…
— Leon Trotsky
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It seems that the most important thing about Reagan was his anti-Communism and his reputation as a hawk who saw the Soviet Union as an…
— Mikhail Gorbachev
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When everybody owns something, nobody owns it, and nobody has a direct interest in maintaining or improving its condition. That is why buildings in the…
— Milton Friedman
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The accepted ideas of any period are singularly those that serve the dominant economic interest...What economists believe and teach, whether in the United States or…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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We who are members of the Communist Party repudiate the exclusive identification of democracy with capitalism. We declare that democracy can be widened, take on…
— Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
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There are no boundaries in the real Planet Earth. No United States, no Soviet Union, no China, no Taiwan...Rivers flow unimpeded across the swaths of…
— Jacques Yves Cousteau
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It is the Soviet Union that runs against the tide of history . . . . [It is] the march of freedom and democracy which…
— Ronald Reagan
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In an ironic sense, Karl Marx was right. We are witnessing today a great revolutionary crisis, a crisis where the demands of the economic order…
— Ronald Reagan
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