Cold War Quotes - Page 2

• From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Iron, History

  Address at Westminster College, Fulton, Mo., 5 Mar. 1946.

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• We don't propose to sit here in our rocking chair with our hands folded and let the Communists set up any government in the Western Hemisphere.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  War, Government, Hands

  Remarks to the 10th National Legislative Conference, Building and Construction Trades Department, AFL-CIO, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. May 03, 1965.

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• A wall is a hell of a lot better than a war.

  John F. Kennedy

  Wall, War, Cold

  "Savage century". The Sunday Times, May 28, 2006.

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• [The Soviets] preach the supremacy of the state, declare its omnipotence over individual man, and predict its eventual domination of all peoples on the earth; they are the focus of evil in the modern world.

  Ronald Reagan

  War, Men, Omnipotence

  Remarks at the Annual Convention of the the National Association of Evangelicals, delivered 8 March 1983, Orlando, Florida

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• The only answer to a regime that wages total cold war is to wage total peace.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Peace, War, Wages

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1959). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1958”, p.3, Best Books on

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• If you start throwing hedgehogs under me, I shall throw a couple of porcupines under you.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Couple, Hedgehogs, Porcupines

  In New York Times 7 Nov. 1963

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• The new century has brought on its own terrible dangers, which although not reaching the apocalyptic potential of the Cold War, still have the capacity to shake our world.

  Adam Schiff

  War, Our World, Cold

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• Ladies and gentlemen, I stand before you tonight in my …  chiffon evening gown, my face softly made up, my fair hair gently waved, the Iron Lady of the Western world. Me? A Cold War warrior? … Well, yes — if that is how they wish to interpret my defense of values of freedoms fundamental to our way of life.

  Margaret Thatcher

  War, Iron, Hair

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• President Reagan fueled the spirit of America. His smile, his optimism, his total belief in the ultimate triumph of democracy and freedom, and his willingness to act on that belief, helped end the Cold War and usher in a new and brighter phase of history.

  Colin Powell

  War, America, Optimism

  "Quotes: A Nation Reacts", www.foxnews.com. June 6, 2004.

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• Should the German people lay down their arms, the Soviets... would occupy all eastern and south-eastern Europe, together with the greater part of the [German] Reich. All over this territory, which would be of an enormous extent, an iron curtain would at once descend.

  Joseph Goebbels

  War, Europe, Iron

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• Don't you want to know what's real and what's not? I remember when I was a kid, you know, this whole Cold War thing. They had us scared of the Russians. So, it's almost like, what's real and what's not?

  Queen Latifah

  Real, War, Kids

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• Ronald Reagan will be remembered for leading the United States during a time of tremendous international transition - the demise of the Soviet Union, the Berlin Wall coming down, and the end of the Cold War

  Mary Landrieu

  Wall, War, United States

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• Detente is a readiness to resolve differences and conflicts not by force, not by threats and sabre-rattling, but by peaceful means, at the conference table.

  Leonid Brezhnev

  War, Mean, Differences

  "Brezhnev Reconsidered". Book by Edwin Bacon, p. 99, 2002.

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• The Cold War was a war, and we won it.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  War, Victory, Cold

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• The cold war was the longest war in United States history. Because of the nuclear capabilities of our enemy it was the most dangerous conflict our country ever faced. Those that won this war did so in obscurity. Those that gave their lives in the cold war have never been properly honored.

  Harry Reid

  Country, War, Enemy

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• By the grace of God, we won the Cold War.

  George H. W. Bush

  War, Grace, Victory

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• The politicians always told us that the Cold War stand-off could only change by way of nuclear war. None of them believed that such systemic change was possible.

  Lech Walesa

  War, Nuclear, Way

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• "For 46 years, we were engaged in a worldwide battle against communism". "During that time, there were countless heroes, who served in our nation's Armed Forces and played a critical role in America's triumph. These men and women, who sacrificed so much for so many, deserve to be awarded the Cold War Service Medal in recognized of their faithful service to their country and tireless defense of freedom around the world."

  Mary Landrieu

  Country, War, Hero

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• "America's Cold War veterans deserve every honor we can bestow upon them for their hard work and dedication to keeping our nation safe,". "The Cold War Service Medal would allow military service members, veterans, and their families to receive the recognition and honor they rightfully deserve. I will continue to work with my colleagues to ensure our veterans receive the support and care they and their families need. It's the least we can do as a grateful nation."

  Blanche Lincoln

  Military, War, Grateful

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• There is the solution which I respectfully offer to you in this Address to which I have given the title "The Sinews of Peace."

  Winston Churchill

  War, Titles, Addresses

  The Sinews of Peace, delivered 5 March 1946 Westminster College, Fulton Missouri

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• To the Cold War veterans here, know that your steadfast efforts preserved a delicate balance, and, because of you, the global war that many feared never came to pass. We are thankful for you, as we are for all the veterans here with us.

  Michael Mullen

  War, Effort, Victory

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• ...the high roads of the future will be clear, not only for us but for all, not only for our time but for a century to come.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Cold, Century

  The Sinews of Peace, delivered 5 March 1946 Westminster College, Fulton Missouri

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• "World War III, was the Cold War, and the U.S. won it".

  Norman Podhoretz

  War, Victory, World

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• The long bitter years of the Cold War are over. America and her allies have won; totally, decisively, and overwhelmingly....So thank you SAC. Job well done. Enjoy your retirement.

  Colin Powell

  Retirement, Jobs, War

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• The cold war was an aberration. Note how quickly the Europeans turned on America once 400 hostile divisions were no longer on their borders.

  Bill Vaughan

  War, America, Borders

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