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Cold War45 quotes
Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall! — Ronald Reagan · 1987An evil empire. — Ronald Reagan · 1983Ich bin ein Berliner. — John F. Kennedy · 1963From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. — Winston Churchill · 1946Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you. — Nikita Khrushchev · 1956We have listened to the wisdom in an old Russian maxim. And I'm sure you're familiar with it, Mr. General Secretary…The maxim is…trust, but verify. — Ronald Reagan · 1987All 45 quotes →Soviet Union10 quotes
An evil empire. — Ronald Reagan · 1983From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. — Winston Churchill · 1946Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you. — Nikita Khrushchev · 1956There is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe, and there never will be under a Ford administration. — Gerald Ford · 1976We 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 · 1948A 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 · 1989All 10 quotes →American politics8 quotes
We have listened to the wisdom in an old Russian maxim. And I'm sure you're familiar with it, Mr. General Secretary…The maxim is…trust, but verify. — Ronald Reagan · 1987There is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe, and there never will be under a Ford administration. — Gerald Ford · 1976I have here in my hand a list of 205... A list of names that were made known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping policy in the State Department. — Joseph McCarthy · 1950Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency? — Joseph Welch · 1954Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party? — J. Parnell Thomas · 1947McCarthyism is Americanism with its sleeves rolled. — Joseph McCarthy · 1952All 8 quotes →International politics6 quotes
Ich bin ein Berliner. — John F. Kennedy · 1963What we may be witnessing is not just the end of the Cold War but the end of history as such: that is, the end point of man's ideological evolution and the universalism of Western liberal democracy. — Francis Fukuyama · 1989You have broader considerations that might follow what you would call the "falling domino" principle. You have a row of dominoes set up, you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is the certainty that it will go over very quickly. So you could have a beginning of a disintegration that would have the most profound influences. — Dwight D. Eisenhower · 1954We have before us the opportunity to forge for ourselves and for future generations a new world order-a world where the rule of law, not the law of the jungle, governs the conduct of nations. — George H.W. Bush · 1991Freedom is pitted against slavery; lightness against the dark. — Dwight D. Eisenhower · 1953Tolerance is the alpha and omega of a new world order. — Mikhail Gorbachev · 1990Communism5 quotes
Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall! — Ronald Reagan · 1987I have here in my hand a list of 205... A list of names that were made known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping policy in the State Department. — Joseph McCarthy · 1950McCarthyism is Americanism with its sleeves rolled. — Joseph McCarthy · 1952No one man can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices. — Edward R. Murrow · 1954Communism 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 · 1949Red Scare5 quotes
I have here in my hand a list of 205... A list of names that were made known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping policy in the State Department. — Joseph McCarthy · 1950Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency? — Joseph Welch · 1954Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party? — J. Parnell Thomas · 1947McCarthyism is Americanism with its sleeves rolled. — Joseph McCarthy · 1952No one man can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices. — Edward R. Murrow · 1954Nuclear weapons4 quotes
We have listened to the wisdom in an old Russian maxim. And I'm sure you're familiar with it, Mr. General Secretary…The maxim is…trust, but verify. — Ronald Reagan · 1987We're eyeball to eyeball, and I think the other fellow just blinked. — Dean Rusk · 1962To 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 · 1961The world stood like a playing card on edge... One looked at the buildings one passed and wondered if one was to see them again. — Norman Mailer · 1963American foreign policy3 quotes
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 Truman · 1947Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate. — John F. Kennedy · 1961We have before us the opportunity to forge for ourselves and for future generations a new world order-a world where the rule of law, not the law of the jungle, governs the conduct of nations. — George H.W. Bush · 1991Cuban Missile Crisis3 quotes
We will not prematurely or unnecessarily risk the costs of worldwide nuclear war in which even the fruits of victory would be ashes in our mouth--but neither will we shrink from that risk at any time it must be faced...I call upon Chairman Khrushchev to halt and eliminate this clandestine, reckless, and provocative threat to world peace and to stable relations between our two nations...He has an opportunity now to move the world back from the abyss of destruction. — John F. Kennedy · 1962We're eyeball to eyeball, and I think the other fellow just blinked. — Dean Rusk · 1962The world stood like a playing card on edge... One looked at the buildings one passed and wondered if one was to see them again. — Norman Mailer · 1963Politics3 quotes
You have broader considerations that might follow what you would call the "falling domino" principle. You have a row of dominoes set up, you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is the certainty that it will go over very quickly. So you could have a beginning of a disintegration that would have the most profound influences. — Dwight D. Eisenhower · 1954Let 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 · 1969Tolerance is the alpha and omega of a new world order. — Mikhail Gorbachev · 1990Communism vs. democracy2 quotes
Freedom is pitted against slavery; lightness against the dark. — Dwight D. Eisenhower · 1953Communism 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 · 1949Democracy2 quotes
What we may be witnessing is not just the end of the Cold War but the end of history as such: that is, the end point of man's ideological evolution and the universalism of Western liberal democracy. — Francis Fukuyama · 1989Communism 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 · 1949End of history2 quotes
What we may be witnessing is not just the end of the Cold War but the end of history as such: that is, the end point of man's ideological evolution and the universalism of Western liberal democracy. — Francis Fukuyama · 1989And 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 · 1991New world order2 quotes
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 · 1991Tolerance is the alpha and omega of a new world order. — Mikhail Gorbachev · 1990America1 quote
Without the cold war, what's the point of being an American? — John Updike · 1990America and the world1 quote
We will not prematurely or unnecessarily risk the costs of worldwide nuclear war in which even the fruits of victory would be ashes in our mouth--but neither will we shrink from that risk at any time it must be faced...I call upon Chairman Khrushchev to halt and eliminate this clandestine, reckless, and provocative threat to world peace and to stable relations between our two nations...He has an opportunity now to move the world back from the abyss of destruction. — John F. Kennedy · 1962Berlin Wall1 quote
Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall! — Ronald Reagan · 1987Brinkmanship1 quote
We're eyeball to eyeball, and I think the other fellow just blinked. — Dean Rusk · 1962Domino theory1 quote
You have broader considerations that might follow what you would call the "falling domino" principle. You have a row of dominoes set up, you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is the certainty that it will go over very quickly. So you could have a beginning of a disintegration that would have the most profound influences. — Dwight D. Eisenhower · 1954Foreign policy1 quote
Ich bin ein Berliner. — John F. Kennedy · 1963Korean War1 quote
What we are doing in Korea is this: we are trying to prevent a third world war. — Harry Truman · 1951Marxism1 quote
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 · 1955McCarthyism1 quote
No one man can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices. — Edward R. Murrow · 1954Modern life1 quote
Our gadget-filled paradise suspended in a hell of international insecurity. — Reinhold Niebuhr · 1957Nuclear disarmament1 quote
We have listened to the wisdom in an old Russian maxim. And I'm sure you're familiar with it, Mr. General Secretary…The maxim is…trust, but verify. — Ronald Reagan · 1987Nuclear holocaust1 quote
We will all go together when we go,
All suffused with an incandescent glow. — Tom Lehrer · 1959Political theory1 quote
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 · 1949Russia1 quote
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 · 1985Self-government1 quote
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 · 1949