Quotes and Sayings about the Cold War

Albert Einstein - December 1945

Peace 1945 World War II

People nowadays don't know about the Cold War and the U.S.'s old rivalry with the U.S.S.R.

This is the first time since the end of the Cold War that almost the whole world stands together. Even in my wildest dreams, I didn't expect such solidarity to happen in four to five days.

Garry Kasparov - March 2022

Russia-Ukraine War

The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the cold war, is that the engine of capitalism, the individual, is mightier than any collective.

Rand Paul

If you grew up during that Cold War period, then you saw a time in politics when the word 'socialism' could be used to end an argument. Today, I think a word like that is the beginning of a debate, not the end of a debate.

Pete Buttigieg

Socialism

With the end of the cold war, all the 'isms' of the 20th century - Fascism, Nazism, Communism and the evil of apartheid-ism - have failed. Except one. Only democracy has shown itself true the help of all mankind.

Jack Kemp

When I was in the White House, I was confronted with the challenge of the Cold War. Both the Soviet Union and I had 30,000 nuclear weapons that could destroy the entire earth and I had to maintain the peace.

Jimmy Carter

The Cold War isn't thawing; it is burning with a deadly heat.

Richard Nixon

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When the action is over and we look back, we understand both more and less. This much is certain. Before the Doolittle raid, America knew nothing but defeat. After it, there was hope of victory. Japan realized, for the first time, they could lose and began to pull back. America realized, that she would win and surged forward. It was a war, that changed America and the world. Dorie Miller was the first black American to be awarded the Navy Cross. But he would not be the last. He joined a brotherhood of heroes. World War II, for us, began at Pearl Harbor, and 1.177 men still lie entombed in the battleship Arizona. America suffered, but America grew stronger. It was not inevitable. The times tried our souls, and through the trial, we overcame.

Evelyn Johnson in Pearl Harbor

World War II

In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.

Queen Elizabeth II

Europe Peace World War II

Trump: "North Korea, we're not in a war. We have a good relationship. People don't understand, having a good relationship with leaders of other countries is a good thing."
Biden: "We had a good relationship with Hitler before he invaded Europe. Come on!"

Joe Biden - October 2020, second United States presidential debate

North Korea World War II

Yesterday, December 7, 1941 - a date which will live in infamy - the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by the naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.

Franklin D. Roosevelt - December 1941

World War II

But let all strive without failing in faith or in duty, and the dark curse of Hitler will be lifted from our age.

Winston Churchill - July 1940

Adolf Hitler 1940 World War II

You ask what is our aim? I can answer in one word: Victory. Victory at all costs. Victory in spite of all terror. Victory however long and hard the road may be. For without victory there is no survival.

Winston Churchill - May 1940

1940 World War II

We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender, and even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this Island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in God's good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old.

Winston Churchill - June 1940

War Speeches World War II

Once upon a time, Russians and Ukranians fought together hand in hand to stop the murderous regime of national socialist Germany.

Olaf Scholz - May 2022

Russia-Ukraine War World War II

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

Winston Churchill - 1940

1940 World War II Armed Forces Day

If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.

Winston Churchill - 1941, zu einem Bündnis mit Stalin

Adolf Hitler Devil 1941 World War II

You will not f*ck with my children's future. You will not destroy the freedoms my grandfather fought two world wars to defend.

Hugh Grant - August 2019, about Boris Johnson

World War II

You read in any war stories - World War II, whatever - that there are many, many heroes. There are the main stories you always hear about, but there are all these other little people that did things that were very important that we don't always know about.

Dave Filoni

World War II

There's no question in my mind that those people want to have a war. They're determined to be a world power and seem to feel that's the only way to become one. Those storm troopers are awesome. The atmosphere in Berlin - well, I've never sensed such tension.

Gary Cooper

1938 World War II

Oh, great warrior? Wars not make one great.

Master Yoda in Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

War Warriors

I don't want to be in a battle, but waiting on the edge of one I can't escape is even worse.

Pippin Took in The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

War Waiting

They got money for the war, but can't feed the poor.

2Pac

Greed War

War is when the young and stupid are tricked by the old and bitter into killing each other.

Niko Bellic in GTA - Grand Theft Auto - IV

War

I was a warrior who dreamed he could bring peace. Sooner or later though, you always have to wake up.

Jake Sully in Avatar -

War Warriors

This is how it's done. When people are sittin' on shit that you want, you make 'em your enemy. Then you're justified in taking it.

Jake Sully in Avatar -

Greed War

War educates the senses, calls into action the will, perfects the physical constitution, brings men into such swift and close collision in critical moments that man measures man.

Saving Private Ryan

War

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.

Mahatma Gandhi

War Peace Revenge

The stronger we are, the less likely a war is.

Otto von Bismarck

War Strength

A wise king never seeks out war, but he must always be ready for it.

Odin in Thor

War Kings

War is young men dying and old men talking. You know this. Ignore the politics.

Odysseus in Troy

War Politics

Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.

Albert Einstein

Reason & Sanity Imagination

Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.

Ronald Reagan

Peace

Games shouldn't only be fun. They should teach or spark an interest in other things.

Hideo Kojima

Video games

Having a dictator rule in Russia is by far the greatest existential threat to humanity.

Garry Kasparov - March 2022

Russia Dictators & Autocrats

Mr. President, Ukraine did not "start" this war. Russia launched an unprovoked and brutal invasion claiming hundreds of thousands of lives. The Road to Peace must be built on the Truth.

Mike Pence - February 2025

Russia-Ukraine War

The thing is I think vaccines are one of the greatest medical breakthroughs that we have. I'm a big fan and a great fan of the history of the development of the smallpox vaccine, for example.

Rand Paul

I am a Democrat because I believe in protecting freedom, fairness, families, and the future.

Pete Buttigieg - December 2016

Jesus was the first socialist, the first to seek a better life for mankind.

Mikhail Gorbachev

Socialism

Pro football gave me a good sense of perspective to enter politics: I'd already been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded and hung in effigy.

Jack Kemp

American Football

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense… human rights invented America.

Jimmy Carter

USA Independence Day

The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.

Richard Nixon

Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Albert Einstein in The World As I See It

Heart Self-Deception Self-Confidence Seeing

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