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Political speech25 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 · 1946We 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 · 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 · 1950All 25 quotes →Political literature3 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 · 1989The 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 · 1947The 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 · 1963Coming of age1 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 · 1985Coming of age (film)1 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 · 1985Folk music1 quote
We will all go together when we go,
All suffused with an incandescent glow. — Tom Lehrer · 1959Philosophical literature1 quote
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 · 1948Protest music1 quote
We will all go together when we go,
All suffused with an incandescent glow. — Tom Lehrer · 1959