Quotes of the Cold War

  • Iron curtain

    Iron curtain
    "Posted on November 22, 2011 by admin “From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent.” ~Winston Churchill
  • Preventing a third world war

    Preventing a third world war
    “In the simplest of terms, what we are doing in Korea is this: We are trying to prevent a third world war.” ~Harry S. Truman
  • Construction of the Berlin Wall

    Construction of the Berlin Wall
    “A wall is a hell of a lot better than a war.” ~John F. Kennedy
  • Ideas

    Ideas
    "A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death.” ~John F. Kennedy
  • Berlin Wall

    Berlin Wall
    "There are many people in the world who really don't understand--or say they don't--what is the greatest issue between the free world and Communist world. Let them come to Berlin! There are some who say that "communism is the wave of the future." Let them come to Berlin! And there are some who say in Europe and elsewhere, "we can work with the Communists." Let them come to Berlin! ~John F. Kennedy
  • Communism

    Communism
    “[Communism] has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or internal corruption or both." ~John F. Kennedy
  • Survivors of nuclear war

    Survivors of nuclear war
    “The survivors (of a nuclear war) would envy the dead.” ~Nikita Khrushchev
  • Berlin Wall

    Berlin Wall
    “Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall!” ~Ronald Reagan
  • Victory

    Victory
    By the grace of God, America won the cold war.” ~George Bush, Snr.