Cold War 1947-1953

Famous quotes containing the words cold war, cold and/or war:

    “The Cold War began with the division of Europe. It can only end when Europe is whole.”
    —George Bush (b. 1924)

    “What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine. They are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted and low, or dysentery, chronic and acute, cold and heat and famine. They are intoxication, drunken brutality, demoralisation and disorder on the part of the inferior ... jealousies, meanness, indifference, selfish brutality on the part of the superior.”
    —Florence Nightingale (1820–1910)

    “A war between Europeans is a civil war.”
    —Victor Hugo (1802–1885)