Margaret Thatcher Quotes

I think that the Cold War was an exceptional and unnecessary piece of cruelty.

I was very much a child of the Cold War.

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.

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

Containment was merely appeasement on the installment plan.

The United States now has as its goal much more than simply containing Soviet expansionism. We seek the integration of the Soviet Union into the communlty of nations.... Ultimately, our objective is to welcome the Soviet Union back into the world order.

The Cold War is Over

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

And, gentlemen, they have not yet done so, and it is quite clear that no Americans, no people in the world probably, are going to war with the Soviet Union.

I grew up during the Cold War, when everything seemed very tenuous. For many years, right up until the fall of the Berlin Wall, I had vivid nightmares of nuclear apocalypse.

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

I had a minor in Russian history, and this was at the time when the big Cold War was going on.

There's a tendency on the part of Americans, all of us, to say, 'Hey, the Cold War is over, the Soviet Union is gone, we don't have to worry about these guys again.' We always have to be worried about them, we always have to be concerned about them, and we have to be well-informed.

I don't live in the Cold War. Some people maybe still live in the Cold War, but this is their problem, not mine.

The Cold War was over long before it was officially declared dead.

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

Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.

Containment

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

I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.

Truman is now seen as a near-great president because he put in place the containment doctrine boosted by the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan and NATO, which historians now see as having been at the center of American success in the cold war.

The American foreign policy trauma of the sixties and seventies was caused by applying valid principles to unsuitable conditions.