Cold War 1947-1953

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

    The Cold War isn’t thawing; it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn’t sleeping; it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting.
    Richard M. Nixon (1913–1995)

    The graceless madness of her lips,
    Who was the powder-puff of life,
    Cannot rouge those cheeks nor warm
    His cold corpuscles back to strife.
    Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in, everybody.
    Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)