Cold War 1947-1953

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

    Let us not be deceived—we are today in the midst of a cold war.
    Bernard Baruch (1870–1965)

    If the factory people outside the colleges live under the discipline of narrow means, the people inside live under almost every other kind of discipline except that of narrow means—from the fruity austerities of learning, through the iron rations of English gentlemanhood, down to the modest disadvantages of occupying cold stone buildings without central heating and having to cross two or three quadrangles to take a bath.
    Margaret Halsey (b. 1910)

    But no, he only said,
    “Well, there’s the storm. That says I must go on.
    That wants me as a war might if it came.
    Ask any man.”
    Robert Frost (1874–1963)