Cold War 1947-1953

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

    “Professor: War is hell, Mr. Thornhill, even if it’s just a cold one.
    Roger Thornhill: If you fellows can’t lick the Vandamms of this world without asking girls like her to bed down with them, and fly away with them, and probably never come back, perhaps you ought to start learning how to lose a few cold wars.
    Professor: I’m afraid we’re already doing that.”
    —Ernest Lehman (b.1920)

    “To watch that world come up like a cold sun,
    Rewarding others, is my liberty.
    Not to prevent it is my will’s fulfilment.
    Willing it, my ailment.”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    “War talk by men who have been in a war is always interesting; whereas moon talk by a poet who has not been in the moon is likely to be dull.”
    —Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)