Cold War Quotes - Page 4

• There was one thing more than any other that turned this New York, liberal, Jewish, Columbia University graduate student away from modern liberalism: its use of moral equivalence to avoid confronting evil during the Cold War.

  Dennis Prager

  New York, War, Evil

  "Moral Equivalence and Muslim Violence" by Dennis Prager, www.realclearpolitics.com. September 2, 2010.

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• Seldom, if ever, has a war ended leaving the victors with such a sense of uncertainty and fear, with such a realization that the future is obscure and that survival is not assured.

  Edward R. Murrow

  War, Leaving, Survival

  Edward R. Murrow (1967). “In Search of Light: The Broadcasts of Edward R. Murrow, 1938-1961”

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• The 20th century ended with a single surviving model of human progress.

  George W. Bush

  War, Progress, Cold

  George W. Bush's commencement address at the United States Military Academy at West Point, www.nytimes.com. June 1, 2002.

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• This system, built on free markets, free trade and free peoples and American protection, that's what got us from the end of World War II to the extraordinary events of the end of the Cold War and a system that was one of prosperity and peace for a lot of people, including for the United States.

  Condoleezza Rice

  War, People, World

  "Condoleezza Rice: Institutions Aren't Perfect, But They're The Bedrock Of Democracy". "Morning Edition" with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. May 8, 2017.

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• The Cold War has been over for a long time. I'm not interested in having battles that, frankly, started before I was born.

  Barack Obama

  War, Long, Battle

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• Liberals are people who think that being tough on crime means longer suspended sentences.

  Ronald Reagan

  War, Mean, Thinking

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• Our rockets can find Halley's comet, and fly to Venus with amazing accuracy, but side by side with these scientific and technical triumphs is an obvious lack of efficiency in using scientific achievements for economic needs. Many Soviet household appliances are of poor quality.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  War, Poor Quality, Achievement

  Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev, Ernest W. Lefever (1989). “Perestroika: how new is Gorbachev's new thinking? : Mikhail Gorbachev's views and responses from Zbigniew Brezinski ... [and others]”, Ethics & Public Policy Center

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• NATO is still the most remarkable alliance in history. It stuck together through 40 years of Cold War, and it then joined together to fight in Afghanistan. In the 1980s, I would not have thought this was going to be possible.

  Paul Wolfowitz

  War, Fighting, Years

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Marxists have more than once pointed out that the capitalist world economic system contains in itself the seeds of a general crisis and of warlike clashes.

  Joseph Stalin

  War, World, Cold

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• Under Lenin the Soviet Union was like a religious revival, under Stalin like a prison, under Khrushchev like a circus, and under Brezhnev like the U.S. Post Office.

  Jimmy Carter

  Religious, War, Office

  Jimmy Carter (2013). “Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President”, p.229, University of Arkansas Press

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• The soviet people want full-blooded and unconditional democracy.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Unconditional Love, People, Democracy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If not us, who? And if not now, when?

  Ronald Reagan

  War, Cold, Ifs

  Second Inaugural Address, delivered 21 January 1985, Rotunda of the Capitol, Washington D.C.

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• 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 the Iranians) were quite legal.

  David Frum

  War, Iran, Elements

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• Americans are hungering to feel proud and patriotic again.

  Ronald Reagan

  War, Patriotic, Proud

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• I think if someone else other than Reagan, someone less of a hardliner, had been in power then the breakthrough in ending the Cold War would not have happened.

  Eduard Shevardnadze

  War, Thinking, Cold

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• 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 an orderly society. We believed then and now there are no limits to growth and human progress when men and women are free to follow their dreams.

  Ronald Reagan

  Dream, War, Men

  Second Inaugural Address, delivered 21 January 1985, Rotunda of the Capitol, Washington D.C.

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• The task of saving the earth's environment must and will become the central organizing principle of the post-Cold War world.

  Al Gore

  War, Principles, Tasks

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• Liberals dispute that Reagan won the Cold War on the basis of their capacity to put mocking quotation marks around the word, won. That's pretty much the full argument: Restate a factual proposition with sneering quote marks.

  Ann Coulter

  War, Quotation Marks, Politics

  Ann Coulter (2003). “Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism”, p.185, Crown Forum

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• The Cold War was over long before it was officially declared dead.

  John le Carre

  War, Long, Literature

  Interview with Adrian Wootton, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2002.

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• [T]he cold warms me—after a different fashion from that of the kitchen stove.

  John Burroughs

  Fashion, Weather, Kitchen

  John Burroughs (2012). “In the Catskills Selections from the Writings of John Burroughs”, p.17, tredition

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• All s, like all human beings, get many things wrong. Ronald Reagan's extraordinary achievement as of the U.S. was to succeed in getting the two biggest challenges of his time right: defeating the Soviet Union and reviving the American economy and spirit. Neither of those achievements was inevitable. Both were fiercely opposed at the time. But he persisted; his visionary focus matched only by a gentleness of character and a brilliance of rhetoric.

  Andrew Sullivan

  War, Character, Two

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• So many people of my generation who served in the government were prisoners of the Cold War culture, still are.

  Stewart Udall

  War, Government, People

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• Her many achievements will be appreciated more as time goes on.

  Ronald Reagan

  War, Achievement, Goes On

  Ronald Reagan, Michael Reagan (2016). “The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, p.257, Humanix Books

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• When others spoke of the fear of war, you spoke of the need for warriors and peace through strength. When others bewailed the failure of big government to provide for the collective good, you spoke of self-reliance, of personal responsibility, of individual pride and integrity. When others preached compromise - when others demanded compromise, you, Ronald Reagan, preached conviction.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Integrity, War, Responsibility

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• I didn't leave the Democratic party; the Democratic party left me.

  Ronald Reagan

  War, Party, Cold

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