Quotes about Post Ww2

David Remnick

The Cold War was wildly expensive and consumed the entire globe.

Winston Churchill

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

This was the most famous public use of the term "iron curtain" in the cold war. Churchill had used the term privately in an even earlier cable to President Truman. However, the phrase "iron curtain" was used by T. St. Vincent Wallace Troubridge even a few months earlier. Also, it appears to have been used earlier than that by Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels in Das Reich {601664}. But George Washington Crile used the phrase in a political context in 1915 {598870}. And Viscountess Snowden used the phrase in her memoirs of a Past WWI trip to Russia {616546} It is not known whether Troubridge or Churchill were familiar with those works.

Carroll Quigley

By the winter of 1945-1946, the Russian peoples were being warned of the dangers from the West.

Barney Frank

NATO was a wonderful idea. It was formed in 1949. We are as far away from NATO as NATO was when it was done in time from the presidency of Grover Cleveland.

Vladimir Putin

The US tactical nuclear weapons are in Europe, let us not forget this. Does it mean that the US has occupied Germany or that the US never stopped the occupation after World War II and only transformed the occupation troops into the NATO forces?

Charles Krauthammer

Americans are not intrinsically imperial, but we ended up dominant by default: Europe disappeared after the Second World War, the Soviet Union disappeared in 1991, so here we are.

Giorgio Napolitano

This unprecedented crisis, which is without doubt the worst since the second world war, is not over.

Noam Chomsky

In fact, a rather striking aspect of business propaganda in the United States is the demonization of government, starting after the Second World War.

Post Ww2 Quotes