M. Stanton Evans Quotes

The Cold War is Over

The Cold War isn't thawing; it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn't sleeping; it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting.

Containment was merely appeasement on the installment plan.

We know only too well that Communist desire for domination will not stop at either ocean. We urge firmness now.

Russia is an important power upon which the U.S.A. imposed a Cold War.

Vietnam should have taught us that mindless anti-Communism is not a cause worth killing or dying for in a world in which Communism is hardly a monolithic force.

During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity.

The Cold War is over. The kind of authority that the presidents asserted during the Cold War has now been diminished.

Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war.

Containment

The Cold War did end in the victory of one side and in the defeat of the other. This reality cannot be denied, despite the understandable sensitivities that such a conclusion provokes among the tenderhearted in the West and some of the former leaders of the defeated side.

The world would be better off with multiple superpowers. When Communist USSR was a superpower, the world was better off.

In the post war period I began again to have my doubts about Russian policy.

During the Cold War, we were interested because we were scared that Russia and the United States were going to go to war. We were scared that Russia was going to take over the world. Every country became a battleground.

People were really interested in what was going on because of the international context of the Cold War.

We will always apply the same principles of collective security, prudent caution, and superior weaponry that enabled us to peacefully prevail in the long cold war against the Soviet Union.

The Cold War had become a battlefield marked by doublespeak. Disguise, distortion, and deception were accepted as reality. Truth was promised in a serum.

The Cold War was like two heavily armed men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision. Each tends to ascribe to the other a consistency, foresight, and coherence that his own experience belies.

Better red than dead.

I do not believe that Communism will overwhelm the free world.

… this whole Near East problem is not just an Arab-Israeli dispute but a problem of the influence of the West as opposed to that of the Soviet. We want no wars, but we do not want a Sovietized world.

The Cold War didn't end. It was won.

When historians consider the significance of the Berlin crises of the mid-20th century, I do not believe that they will record it as an incident in the encirclement of freedom. The true view, in my judgment, will be to see it rather as a major episode in the recession of communism.

I wasn't very worried about the Cold War; I was busy being a musician.

During my childhood in the Cold War, my family saw America as a great ally in our common struggle to keep back Soviet communism.