Quotes

From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.

Winston Churchill 05/03/1946

Category: 100 Best Quotes Ever, Cold War

Tags: 100 Best Quotes Ever, Cold War, Pick of the bunch, Winston Churchill, World Politics

The messages on our banners in 1979 - freedom, opportunity, family, enterprise, ownership - are now inscribed on the banners in Leipzig, Warsaw, Budapest and even Moscow.

Margaret Thatcher 10/1989

Category: Cold War

Tags: Cold War, Margaret Thatcher, World Politics

We are very fortunate to have someone else's weapons stationed on our soil, to fight those targeted on us.

Margaret Thatcher 16/02/1981

Category: Cold War, Defence

Tags: Cold War, Defence, Margaret Thatcher, Policy, World Politics

Ladies & Gentlemen, I stand before you tonight in my green chiffon evening gown, my face softly made up, my hair softly waved. The Iron Lady of the western world? Me? A cold warrior? Well, yes - if that is how they wish to interpret my defence of the values and freedom fundamental to our way of life.

Margaret Thatcher 20/01/1976

Category: Cold War, Appearance

Tags: Appearance, Cold War, Margaret Thatcher, Politics, World Politics

The Cold War is over. The world has become much more complicated.

Vladimir Putin 2001

Category: Cold War

Tags: Cold War, Vladimir Putin, World Politics

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We had lost the art of communication - but not, alas, the gift of speech.

Gordon Brown

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