Harry S. Truman Quotes About Cold War

Quotes about: Cold War

• There is some risk involved in action, there always is. But there is far more risk in failure to act.

  Harry S. Truman

  War, Risk, Action

  United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman), Harry S. Truman (1964). “Harry S. Truman: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 1945-53”

• The seeds of totalitarian regimes are nurtured by misery and want.

  Harry S. Truman

  War, Want, Misery

  The Truman Doctrine, delivered 12 March 1947 before a Joint Session of Congress

• In the simplest of terms, what we are doing in Korea is this: We are trying to prevent a third world war.

  Harry S. Truman

  War, Korea, Trying

  Harry S. Truman, Howard B. Furer, United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman) (1970). “Harry S. Truman, 1884- : chronology-documents-bibliographical aids”, Oceana Pubns

• We have to get tough with the Russians. They don't know how to behave. They are like bulls in a china shop. They are only 25 years old. We are over 100 and the British are centuries older. We have got to teach them how to behave.

  Harry S. Truman

  War, Years, Bulls

• I can deal with Stalin. He is honest, but smart as hell.

  Harry S. Truman

  War, Smart, Honest

  Harry S. Truman, Robert H. Ferrell (1997). “Off the Record: The Private Papers of Harry S. Truman”, p.53, University of Missouri Press

• I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures. I believe that we must assist free peoples to work out their own destinies in their own way. I believe that our help should be primarily through economic and financial aid which is essential to economic stability and orderly political processes.

  Harry S. Truman

  War, Believe, Destiny

  Address to joint session of Congress, 12 Mar. 1947

• If we let Korea down, the Soviet[s] will keep right on going and swallow up one [place] after another.

  Harry S. Truman

  War, Korea, Cold

• We must face the fact that peace must be built on power, as well as upon good will and good deeds.

  Harry S. Truman

  War, Deeds, Faces

  Harry S. Truman (1995). “The Wit & Wisdom of Harry Truman: A Treasury of Quotations, Anecdotes, and Observations”, Gramercy

• 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

  War, Gun, United States

• Unless Russia is face with an iron fist and strong language, another is in the making. Only one language do they understand - 'How many divisions have you?' ... I'm tired of babying the Soviets.

  Harry S. Truman

  Strong, War, Tired

• 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 telegram is not only not true and an insolent approach to a situation that should have been worked out between man and man - but it shows conclusively that you are not even fit to have a hand in the operation of the Government of the United States.

  Harry S. Truman

  War, Men, Hands

• 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 a day in office that has not been dominated by this all-embracing struggle. And always in the background there has been the atomic bomb. But when history says that my term of office saw the begining of the Cold War, it will also say that in those eight years we have set the course that can win it.

  Harry S. Truman

  War, Struggle, Winning

  Farewell Address, delivered 15 January 1953

• I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures.

  Harry S. Truman

  Believe, Support, Pressure

  Address to joint session of Congress, 12 Mar. 1947

• I believe that we must assist free peoples to work out their own destinies in their own way.

  Harry S. Truman

  Believe, Destiny, Work Out

  The Truman Doctrine, delivered 12 March 1947 before a Joint Session of Congress

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