Quotes · Skopia

45 quotes

1963

★ 1.0

Speech · Political speech

Tolerance is the alpha and omega of a new world order.

Mikhail Gorbachev

1990

★ 1.2

Speech · Political speech

Let us not be deceived-we are today in the midst of a cold war. Our enemies are to be found abroad and at home. Let us not forget this: our unrest is the heart of their success.

Bernard Baruch

1947

★ 1.7

Political literature

The main element of any United States policy toward the Soviet Union must be that of a long-term, patient but firm and vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies.

George F. Kennan

1947

★ 1.8

Newspaper

The Soviet Union has indeed been our greatest menace, not so much because of what it has done, but because of the excuses it has provided us for our failures.

J. William Fulbright

Observer · 1958

★ 1.8

Film · Coming of age (film) · Coming of age

I enjoy being afraid of Russia. It's a harmless fear, but it makes America feel better, Russia gets an inflated sense of national worth from our paranoia. How's that?

Kevin Dolenz

St. Elmo's Fire · 1985

★ 1.8

If anyone believes that our smiles involve abandonment of the teaching of Marx, Engels and Lenin he deceives himself. Those who wait for that must wait until a shrimp learns to whistle.

Nikita Khrushchev

1955

★ 1.9

Speech · Political speech

The guilt of Stalin and his immediate entourage before the Party and the people for the mass repressions and lawlessness they committed is enormous and unforgivable.

Mikhail Gorbachev

1987

★ 1.9

Speech · Political speech

Communism is based on the belief that man is so weak and inadequate that he is unable to govern himself, and therefore requires the rule of strong masters. Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with reason and justice.

Harry Truman

Second Inaugural Address of Harry Truman · 1949

★ 1.9

Speech · Political speech

What we are doing in Korea is this: we are trying to prevent a third world war.

Harry Truman

1951

★ 1.9

Speech · Political speech

Let historians not record that when America was the most powerful nation in the world we passed on the other side of the road and allowed the last hopes for peace and freedom of millions of people to be suffocated by the forces of totalitarianism. And so tonight—to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans—I ask for your support.

Richard Nixon

1969

★ 1.9

Speech · Political speech

A new breeze is blowing, and a world refreshed by freedom seems reborn. For in man's heart, if not in fact, the day of the dictator is over. The totalitarian era is passing, its old ideas blown away like the leaves from an ancient, lifeless tree.

George H.W. Bush

Inaugural Address of George H.W. Bush · 1989

★ 1.9

Novel

Without the cold war, what's the point of being an American?

John Updike

1990

★ 1.9

Speech · Political speech

And now, we can see a new world coming into view. A world in which there is the very real prospect of a new world order.

George H.W. Bush

1991

★ 1.9

Speech · Political speech

To those nations who would make themselves our adversary, we offer not a pledge but a request: that both sides begin anew the quest for peace, before the dark powers of destruction unleashed by science engulf all humanity in planned or accidental self-destruction.

John F. Kennedy

Inaugural Address of John F. Kennedy · 1961

★ 2.0

Speech · Political speech

Freedom is pitted against slavery; lightness against the dark.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

First Inaugural Address of Dwight D. Eisenhower · 1953

★ 2.1

At present an iron curtain of silence has descended, cutting off the Russian zone from the Western Allies.

T. St. Vincent Troubridge

A Curtain Across Europe · 1945

★ 2.6

I consider your crime worse than murder... Who knows but that millions more of innocent people may pay the price of your treason. Indeed, by your betrayal, you undoubtedly have altered the course of history to the disadvantage of our country.

Irving R. Kaufman

1951

★ 3.4

Speech

We are in the midst of a cold war which is getting warmer.

Bernard Baruch

1947

★ 3.5

Philosophical literature

We are now brought face to face with a tyranny which holds out the threat of becoming, thanks to "the conquest of nature" and in particular of human nature, what no earlier tyranny ever became: perpetual and universal.

Leo Strauss

1948

★ 3.5

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