Cold War Quotes - Page 10

• The United States particularly abandoned Liberia after the end of the Cold War.

  Russell Banks

  War, United States, Cold

  Interview with Robert I. Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. January 18, 2005.

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• It is not the conservative psyche that needs analysis. Conservatives were right in the Cold War --so right that liberals are pretending they were with us all along -- and they are right about Iraq. It is Leftists who need to account for their consistently disgraceful positions throughout the Cold War and into the War on Terror.

  David Limbaugh

  War, Iraq, Needs

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• We do this in order to slow down aggression. We do this to increase the confidence of the brave people of South Vietnam who have bravely born this brutal battle for so many years with so many casualties. And we do this to convince the leaders of North Vietnam-and all who seek to share their conquest-of a simple fact: We will not be defeated. We will not grow tired. We will not withdraw either openly or under the cloak of a meaningless agreement.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  War, Tired, Simple

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• The individual comes face-to-face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists. The American mind has not come to a realisation of the evil which has been introduced into our midst. It rejects even the assumption that human creatures could espouse a philosophy which must ultimately destroy all that is good and decent.

  J. Edgar Hoover

  Philosophy, War, Believe

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• Restraint? Why are you so concerned with saving their lives? The whole idea is to kill the bastards. At the end of the war if there are two Americans and one Russian left alive, we win.

  Thomas S. Power

  War, Winning, Two

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• I am not a dictator, and I do not think I will become one. I will not maintain power with a machine gun.

  Fidel Castro

  War, Gun, Thinking

  "I Won't Be a Dictator". Interview with Ruth Lloyd, January 1959.

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• I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement, but we do not have to say that we are anticommunists just to fawn on foreign powers.

  Fidel Castro

  War, Movement, Fawns

  Fidel Castro's announcement of his resignation as Prime Minister, July 17, 1959.

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• To give [the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba] even covert support is on a par with the hypocrisy and cynicism for which the United States is constantly denouncing the Soviet Union in the United Nations and elsewhere. This point will not be lost on the rest of the world, nor on our own consciences.

  J. William Fulbright

  War, Pigs, Giving

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• You [President Kennedy] have made some pretty strong statements about their being defensive and that we would take action against offensive weapons. I think that a blockade and political talk would be considered by a lot of our friends and neutrals as being a pretty weak response to this [the Cuban missile crisis]. And I'm sure a lot of our own citizens would feel that way too. In other words, you're in a pretty bad fix at the present time.

  Curtis LeMay

  Strong, War, Thinking

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• Hope is no basis for a defense policy.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Defense, Bases, Policy

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• The Cold War in Africa is one of the darkest, most disgraceful pages in contemporary history, and everybody ought to be ashamed.

  Ryszard Kapuscinski

  War, Pages, Cold

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• We who live in free market societies believe that growth and prosperity, and ultimately human fulfillment are created from the bottom up, not the government down.

  Ronald Reagan

  Believe, Government, People

  "A MAN TRUE TO HIS WORD".

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• Secrecy is for losers. . . . It is time to dismantle government secrecy, this most persuasive of Cold War-era regulations. It is time to begin building the supports for the era of openness that is already upon us.

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  War, Government, Support

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• So I ask the nuclear powers to abandon the out-of-date thinking of the Cold War period and take a fresh look. Above all, I appeal to them to bear in mind the long-term threat that nuclear weapons pose to humankind and to begin action towards their elimination.

  Joseph Rotblat

  War, Thinking, Long

  Joseph Rotblat, Daisaku Ikeda (2007). “A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat”, p.132, I.B.Tauris

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• Well, I actually grew up in the sixties. I feel very lucky, actually, that that was my slice of time that I was dealt. Let's remember that the real motivation in the sixties, and even in the fifties, was the Cold War.

  Ann Druyan

  Motivation, Real, War

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• But we didn't, not in the moonlight, or by the phosphorescent lanterns of lightning bugs in your back yard, not beneath the constellations we couldn't see, let alone decipher, or in the dark glow that replaced the real darkness of night, a darkness already stolen from us, not with the skyline rising behind us while a city gradually decayed, not in the heat of summer while a Cold War raged, despite the freedom of youth and the license of first love-because of fate, karma, luck, what does it matter?-we made not doing it a wonder, and yet we didn't, we didn't, we never did.

  Stuart Dybek

  Love, Summer, Karma

  Stuart Dybek (2004). “I Sailed with Magellan”, p.244, Macmillan

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• We shall pay any price, bear any burden, to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

  John F. Kennedy

  Success, Memorial Day, Freedom

  Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961

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• I believe that we must assist free peoples to work out their own destinies in their own way.

  Harry S. Truman

  Believe, Destiny, Work Out

  The Truman Doctrine, delivered 12 March 1947 before a Joint Session of Congress

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• History of America, Part I (1776-1966): Declaration of Independence, Constitutional Convention, Louisiana Purchase, Civil War, Reconstruction, World War I, Great Depression, New Deal, World War II, TV, Cold war, civil-rights movement, Vietnam. History of America, Part II (1967-present): the Super Bowl era. The Super Bowl has become Main Street’s Mardi Gras.

  Norman Chad

  War, America, Rights

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• The Cold War went on for so long that it bred a kind of worldwide military establishment. Even when budgets went down in the early and mid-nineties, it didn't really affect it.

  Robert D. Kaplan

  Military, War, Long

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• There is some risk involved in action, there always is. But there is far more risk in failure to act.

  Harry S. Truman

  War, Risk, Action

  United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman), Harry S. Truman (1964). “Harry S. Truman: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 1945-53”

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• We have won an armistice on a single battlefield, not peace in our world. We may not now relax our guard nor cease our quest.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  War, Our World, Relax

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• Forces of good and evil are massed and armed and opposed as rarely before in history. Freedom is pitted against slavery; lightness against the dark... In the final choice, a soldier's pack is not so heavy a burden as a prisoner's chains.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  War, Dark, Evil

  1953 Inaugural address, 20 Jan.

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• If Berlin fell, the US would lose Europe, and if Europe fell into the hands of the Soviet Union and thus added its great industrial plant to the USSR's already great industrial plant, the United States would be reduced to the character of a garrison state if it were to survive at all.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  War, Character, Hands

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• We in this country, in this generation, are, by destiny rather than choice, the watchmen on the walls of world freedom.

  John F. Kennedy

  Country, Wall, War

  Undelivered Speech to the Dallas Citizens Council, delivered 22 November 1963, Trade Mart, Dallas, Texas

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