Cold War Quotes - Page 7

• I think Ronald Reagan changed the trajectory of America in a way that Richard Nixon did not and in a way that Bill Clinton did not. He put us on a fundamentally different path because the country was ready for it.

  Barack Obama

  Country, War, Thinking

  "Reagan and Obama -- The Big Difference Between These Two Presidents" by Nick Ragone, www.foxnews.com. February 5, 2011.

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• Out of these troubled times, our fifth objective - a New World Order - can emerge. . . Now, we can see a New World Order coming into view. A world in which there is a very real prospect for a New World Order. . .A world where the United Nations, freed from a Cold War stalemate, is poised to fulfill the historic vision of its founders.

  George H. W. Bush

  Real, War, Views

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• Edmund Wilson was our greatest American literary critic because he was more than a literary critic: He was a fearless, even radical judge of the society he lived in. (See, for example, _A Piece of My Mind_; _The Cold War and the Income Tax_; the introduction to _Patriotic Gore_.) Our conventional critics cannot forgive him for those scandalous lapses in good taste.

  Edward Abbey

  War, Patriotic, Judging

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• 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 many excellent candidates.

  Ronald Reagan

  War, Choices, Doe

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• You can't uninvent things, you can only make them obsolete... Ronald Reagan understood that the surest method of neutralising any weapon is to make it obsolete.

  Mark Steyn

  War, Weapons, Cold

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• We cannot risk living all our lives under emergency measures.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  War, Risk, Emergencies

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• In opposing Communism, we are defeating ourselves if we use methods that do not conform to the American sense of justice.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  War, Justice, Use

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1960). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1954”, p.289, Best Books on

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• 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

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• Wars are not caused by the buildup of weapons. They are caused when an aggressor believes he can achieve his objectives at an acceptable price.

  Margaret Thatcher

  War, Believe, Weapons

  Address to a Joint Session of Congress, delivered 20 February 1985

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• For all their faults, right-wing authoritarian regimes more easily accept democratic reforms than left-wing totalitarian states.

  Jeane Kirkpatrick

  War, Wings, Faults

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• We're saying to anyone who dares to attack us, Do not do it, you couldn't win, the result would be devastating! I think you're saying the same.

  Margaret Thatcher

  War, Winning, Thinking

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• Even now, the irony that so non-intellectual a man should choose to engage the Soviet Union on the battlefield of ideas has eluded most commentators and historians.

  Richard Perle

  War, Men, Ideas

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• To this day, America is still the abiding alternative to tyranny. This is our purpose in the world, nothing more and nothing less.

  Ronald Reagan

  War, America, Abiding

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• 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, much of Europe had been under a terrible shadow. Free nations had fallen, Jews cried out in the camps, millions cried out for liberation. Europe was enslaved, and the world prayed for its rescue. Here in Normandy the rescue began. Here the Allies stood and fought against tyranny in a giant undertaking unparalleled in human history.

  Ronald Reagan

  War, Years, Europe

  Remarks on the 40th Anniversary of D-Day, delivered 6 June 1984 in Pointe Du Hoc, Normandy, France

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• If we are safe today, it is because America has stood with us. If we are to remain safe tomorrow, it will be because America remains powerful and self-confident. When, therefore, the Americans face difficulties, we need to say to them more clearly: We are with you.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Powerful, War, Self

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• I think a resumption of the Cold War would be a historic tragedy. If a conflict is avoidable, on a basis reflecting morality and security, one should try to avoid it.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  War, Thinking, Tragedy

  "Do We Achieve World Order Through Chaos or Insight". Interview With Uliane von Mittelstaedt, Erich Follath, www.spiegel.de. November 13, 2014.

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• It is a modern tragedy that one of the Soviet Union's most intelligent and realistic leaders has served and died during the administration of the most ill-informed and dangerous man ever to occupy the White House.

  George McGovern

  War, Intelligent, Men

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• I sometimes think Adam and Eve were Russians. They didn't have a roof over their head, nothing to wear, but they had one apple between them and they thought that was Paradise.

  Ronald Reagan

  War, Thinking, Apples

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• I found Mr. Carter's actions toward the Republic of China so incredible that they defy description by socially acceptable expletives. If December 7, 1941 was a "day of infamy" then December 15, 1978 ranks right up there in international betrayal...The pathetic thing about this whole mess, however, is that it is typical of this administration's conduct of foreign affairs, which could be kindly described as being riddled by ineptitude and hypocrisy.

  Barry Goldwater

  Betrayal, War, Hypocrisy

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• Moscow is the city where if Marilyn Monroe should walk down the street with nothing on but shoes, people would stare at her feet first.

  John Gunther

  War, Cities, Shoes

  JOHN GUNTHER (1958). “INSIDE RUSSIA TODAY”

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• Because the regime is captive to its own lies, it must falsify everything. It falsifies the past. It falsifies the present, and it falsifies the future. It falsifies statistics. It pretends not to possess an omnipotent and unprincipled police apparatus. It pretends to respect human rights. It pretends to prosecute no one. It pretends to fear nothing. It pretends to pretend nothing.

  Vaclav Havel

  War, Lying, Past

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• My dear fellow citizens: For forty years you have heard from my predecessors on this day different variations of the same theme: how our country flourished, how many millions of tons of steel we produced, how happy we all were, how we trusted our government, and what bright perspectives were unfolding in front of us. I assume you did not propose me for this office so that I, too, would lie to you.

  Vaclav Havel

  Country, War, Lying

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• When fraternities are not allowed, Communism flourishes. Young men who are inexperienced but have faith are more useful than older, experienced men without faith. The fraternity system is a bastion of American strength.

  Barry Goldwater

  War, Men, Have Faith

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• Russian cars are silly. They look like imports drawn by a cartoonist for a UAW newsletter.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  War, Silly, Car

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• The Communists have for decades loudly proclaimed their goal of destroying the bourgeois world, while the West merely smiled at what seemed to be an extravagant joke.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  War, Goal, World

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