Cold War Quotes

• Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

  Ronald Reagan

  Wall, Memorable, Europe

  Remarks at Brandenburg Gate, West Berlin, Germany, 12 June 1987

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• The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five.

  Carl Sagan

  Two, Race, Enemy

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• The Cold War isn't thawing; it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn't sleeping; it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting.

  Richard M. Nixon

  War, Sleep, Fighting

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• Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Memorial Day, Freedom

  Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961

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• Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Revolutionary, Nations, Ifs

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• Here's my strategy on the Cold War: we win, they lose.

  Ronald Reagan

  Military, War, Winning

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• Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Peace, Military, War

  Speech to American Society of Newspaper Editors, Washington, D.C., 16 Apr. 1953

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• If it hadn't been for the Cold War, neither Russia nor America would have been sending people into space.

  James Lovelock

  War, America, Space

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• Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Peace, Children, Military

  Speech in Washington, 16 Apr. 1953, in Public Papers of Presidents 1953 (1960) p. 182

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• 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

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• The survivors (of a nuclear war) would envy the dead.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  War, Envy, Survivor

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• I would rather have the United States as the world's policeman than the Soviet Union as the world's jailer.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  War, United States, World

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• The Cold War is over. The world has become much more complicated.

  Vladimir Putin

  War, World, Cold

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• "World War III, was the Cold War".

  R. James Woolsey, Jr.

  War, Victory, World

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• We're no longer in the Cold War. Eavesdropping on friends is unacceptable.

  Vladimir Putin

  War, Cold, Eavesdropping

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• Berlin is the testicles of the West, every time I want the West to scream, I squeeze on Berlin.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  War, West Berlin, Want

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• 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

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• Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.

  Fidel Castro

  American Capitalism, Capitalism

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• And so the greatest of American triumphs... became a peculiarly joyless victory. We had won the Cold War, but there would be no parades.

  Robert M. Gates

  War, Victory, Triumph

  Robert M. Gates (2011). “From the Shadows: The Ultimate Insider's Story of Five Presidents an”, p.552, Simon and Schuster

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• Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you!

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Cuban Missile Crisis, Sides, Call Of Duty

  Speech to Western diplomats, Moscow, 18 Nov. 1956.

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• 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

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• Although the shooting war is over, we are in the midst of a cold war which is getting warmer.

  Bernard Baruch

  War, Shooting, Cold

  Bernard Baruch's Speech before the Senate's Special Committee Investigating the National Defense Program, 1948.

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• I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war.

  Golda Meir

  War, Phrases, Use

  Newsweek, January 19, 1976.

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• 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

  War, Literature, Shade

  "John le Carré at the NFT". Interview with Adrian Wootton, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2002.

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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 nuclear weapons that could destroy the entire earth and I had to maintain the peace.

  Jimmy Carter

  War, White, House

  "Interview: President Jimmy Carter Talks About His New Bible and Christian Beliefs". Interview with Katherine T. Phan, www.christianpost.com. March 30, 2012.

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