Quotes on Cold War

The Earth is blue... how wonderful. It is amazing

In the simplest of terms, what we are doing in Korea is this: We are trying to prevent a third world war.

Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.

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.

Here's my strategy on the Cold War: we win, they lose.

You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children’s children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done.