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Ich bin ein Berliner. — John F. Kennedy · 1963 All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin, and, therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words "Ich bin ein Berliner!" — John F. Kennedy · 1963 Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate. — John F. Kennedy · 1961 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 · 1962 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 · 1961

Ronald Reagan5 quotes

Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall! — Ronald Reagan · 1987 An evil empire. — Ronald Reagan · 1983 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 · 1987 My fellow Americans, I’m pleased to tell you today that I’ve signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes. — Ronald Reagan · 1984 We're especially not going to tolerate these attacks from outlaw states run by the strangest collection of misfits, looney tunes, and squalid criminals since the advent of the Third Reich. — Ronald Reagan · 1985

George H.W. Bush4 quotes

The biggest thing that has happened in the world in my life, in our lives, is this: By the grace of God, America won the Cold War. — George H.W. Bush · 1992 We 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 · 1991 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 · 1989 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

Harry Truman3 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 · 1947 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 What we are doing in Korea is this: we are trying to prevent a third world war. — Harry Truman · 1951

Bernard Baruch2 quotes

We are in the midst of a cold war which is getting warmer. — Bernard Baruch · 1947 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

Dwight D. Eisenhower2 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 · 1954 Freedom is pitted against slavery; lightness against the dark. — Dwight D. Eisenhower · 1953

Joseph McCarthy2 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 · 1950 McCarthyism is Americanism with its sleeves rolled. — Joseph McCarthy · 1952

Mikhail Gorbachev2 quotes

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 Tolerance is the alpha and omega of a new world order. — Mikhail Gorbachev · 1990

Nikita Khrushchev2 quotes

Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you. — Nikita Khrushchev · 1956 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

Dean Rusk1 quote

We're eyeball to eyeball, and I think the other fellow just blinked. — Dean Rusk · 1962

Edward R. Murrow1 quote

No one man can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices. — Edward R. Murrow · 1954

Francis Fukuyama1 quote

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 · 1989

George F. Kennan1 quote

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

Gerald Ford1 quote

There is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe, and there never will be under a Ford administration. — Gerald Ford · 1976

Irving R. Kaufman1 quote

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

J. Parnell Thomas1 quote

Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party? — J. Parnell Thomas · 1947

J. William Fulbright1 quote

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 · 1958

John Updike1 quote

Without the cold war, what's the point of being an American? — John Updike · 1990

Joseph Welch1 quote

Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency? — Joseph Welch · 1954

Kevin Dolenz1 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 · 1985

Leo Strauss1 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 · 1948

Norman Mailer1 quote

The 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 · 1963

Reinhold Niebuhr1 quote

Our gadget-filled paradise suspended in a hell of international insecurity. — Reinhold Niebuhr · 1957

Richard Nixon1 quote

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

T. St. Vincent Troubridge1 quote

At present an iron curtain of silence has descended, cutting off the Russian zone from the Western Allies. — T. St. Vincent Troubridge · 1945

Tom Lehrer1 quote

We will all go together when we go, All suffused with an incandescent glow. — Tom Lehrer · 1959

Winston Churchill1 quote

From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. — Winston Churchill · 1946

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