All RONALD REAGAN Quotes about “Cold War”

“General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”
“I didn't leave the Democratic party; the Democratic party left me.”
“Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”
“We're here to mark that day in history when the Allied peoples joined in battle to reclaim this continent to liberty. For four long years, much of Europe had been under a terrible shadow. Free nations had fallen, Jews cried out in the camps, millions cried out for liberation. Europe was enslaved, and the world prayed for its rescue. Here in Normandy the rescue began. Here the Allies stood and fought against tyranny in a giant undertaking unparalleled in human history.”
“They [The Soviet Union] are the focus of evil in the modern world.”
“Here's my strategy on the Cold War: we win, they lose.”
“If not us, who? And if not now, when?”
“If the Soviet Union let another political party come into existence, they would still be a one-party state, because everybody would join the other party.”
“Well, the task I've set forth will long outlive our own generation. But together, we too have come through the worst. Let us now begin a major effort to secure the best- a crusade for freedom that will engage the faith and fortitude of the next generation. For the sake of peace and justice, let us move toward a world in which all people are at last free to determine their own destiny.”
“Intelligence reports say Castro is very worried about me. I'm very worried that we can't come up with something to justify his worrying.”
“We who live in free market societies believe that growth, prosperity and ultimately human fulfillment, are created from the bottom up, not the government down. Only when the human spirit is allowed to invent and create, only when individuals are given a personal stake in deciding economic policies and benefitting from their success - only then can societies remain economically alive, dynamic, progressive, and free. Trust the people. This is the one irrefutable lesson of the entire postwar period contradicting the notion that rigid government controls are essential to economic development.”
“Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root.”
“To this day, America is still the abiding alternative to tyranny. This is our purpose in the world, nothing more and nothing less.”
“Americans are hungering to feel proud and patriotic again.”
“You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth.”
“It is no coincidence that when the thugs tried to wrest control over Grenada, there were 30 Soviet advisors and hundreds of Cuban military and paramilitary forces on the island.”
“I sometimes think Adam and Eve were Russians. They didn't have a roof over their head, nothing to wear, but they had one apple between them and they thought that was Paradise.”
“With all this talk about the supposed strain in relations [with the Soviet Union], there is an inference that somehow it is our fault. But we didn't kill Russian civilians by shooting down a civilian airplane. We didn't attempt to conquer an adjacent country to ours. We didn't walk out on negotiations and refuse to give a date for when we would resume.”
“We can meet our destiny, and that destiny to build a land here that will be, for all mankind, a shining city on a hill.”
“The other day, someone told me the difference between a democracy and a people's democracy. It's the same difference between a jacket and a straitjacket.”
“An old Russian woman goes into Kremlin, gets an audience with Mikhail Gorbachev and says, In America anyone can go to the White House, walk up to Reagan's desk and say, 'I don't like the way you are running the country.' Gorbachev replied, You can do the same thing in the Soviet Union. You can go into the Kremlin, walk up to my desk and say 'I don't like the way Reagan is running his country.'”
“Liberals are people who think that being tough on crime means longer suspended sentences.”

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