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.

It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me.

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.

Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

You can’t keep your mind on fighting when you’re thinking about a woman. You can’t keep your concentration. You feel like sleeping all the time.

I spent my life studying communism and Soviet systems.

The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.

Communism doesn’t work because people like to own stuff.

Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation.

The Russians feared Ike. They didn’t fear me.

I never accepted Communist dogma or theory.

When Israel invaded Lebanon in 1982, the U.N. vetoed several resolutions right away, calling for an end to the fighting and so on, and that was a hideous invasion.

Wherever the enemy wants to fight, we will follow him to the ends of the Earth. We’ll adapt, we’ll train, we’ll advise, we’ll mentor, and we’ll fight, and we’ll fight well.

About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.

If you have to stand and fight, you train yourself so that you’re able to do it.

It’s just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.

Many Communist government officials have a rigid, dictatorial power, but they live in constant suspicion and fear of anything that might undermine the power they have.

I don’t feel bitterness, I don’t feel anger towards anybody. Fighting is never emotional to me.

Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle.

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

The U.S.S.R. had absolutely nothing to do with the triumph of the Cuban Revolution.

Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements.

There are many people in the world who really don’t understand-or say they don’t-what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world. Let them come to Berlin!

I’ll beat him so bad he’ll need a shoehorn to put his hat on.

Communism has decided against God, against Christ, against the Bible, and against all religion.

I knew I’d be in the UFC since I started my career.

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

The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics.

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.

In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth – often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.

You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

If my edge is dull, my sword is dull, and I don’t want to fight another guy whose sword is dull. If you’ve got two steel swords going back and forth hitting each other, what’s gonna happen? Both of them are going to get sharper. Everybody that’s in the industry has lost their edge.

At the outset, I want to say that the suggestion that the struggle in South Africa is under the influence of foreigners or communists is wholly incorrect. I have done whatever I did because of my experience in South Africa and my own proudly felt African background, and not because of what any outsider might have said.

The events of October 1962 are widely hailed as Kennedy’s finest hour.

I’m tired of fighting. I’ve always known that I can’t be an action star all my life.

My goal is to be number one in MMA.

When you are an actor, you have to stay inside this world, but when you are with the crew, on the outside, you are in the dirt, working through all the issues. It’s just a different way of working, and I think I preferred it.

I became a Communist by studying capitalist political economy, and when I had some understanding of that problem, it actually seemed to me so absurd, so irrational, so inhuman, that I simply began to elaborate on my own formulas for production and distribution.

I have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world!

I am a Christian. That obliges me to be a Communist.

If I decide to make a coat red in the show, it’s not just red, I think: is it communist red? Is it cherry cordial? Is it ruby red? Or is it apple red? Or the big red balloon red?

When I was in the White House, I was confronted with the challenge of the Cold War. Both the Soviet Union and I had 30,000 nuclear weapons that could destroy the entire earth and I had to maintain the peace.

From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

I don’t know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there’s a good English phrase for it – cold war.

Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.

Sonny Liston is nothing. The man can’t talk. The man can’t fight. The man needs talking lessons. The man needs boxing lessons. And since he’s gonna fight me, he needs falling lessons.

I have always fought for concrete facts, for justice.

Cage Warriors is a brilliant organisation. They’re doing great things for European MMA, and they’re giving the platform for guys like me who came through. They’re vital. I’m forever grateful for the opportunities I got.

I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.

Over the years, there have been a series of concepts developed to justify the use of force in international affairs for a long period. It was possible to justify it on the pretext, which usually turned out to have very little substance, that the U.S. was defending itself against the communist menace. By the 1980s, that was wearing pretty thin.

When I was 18, I went to the Soviet Union. I kept hearing that America was planning to bomb them – lots of bombs were going to come down on these people. I went there not knowing anything, except that I thought the whole thing was stupid and that I wanted to see who these people were that we were going to bomb.

A specter is haunting Europe – the specter of communism.

When I’m ready to fight, my opponent has a better chance of surviving a forest fire wearing gasoline drawers.

If… many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up against in the Cold War and how we overcame it, they are not going to be capable of securing, let alone enlarging, the gains that liberty has made.

Boxing is limited fighting with a specific rule set. Fighting is true, where you can do anything.

Take it from someone who fled the Iron Curtain: I know what happens when you give the Russians a green light.

I don’t fight in chase of an individual. I hear this sometimes where fighters work their whole careers to reach a matchup with a certain individual. I do not think in that way.

To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.

All the screen cowboys behaved like real gentlemen. They didn’t drink, they didn’t smoke. When they knocked the bad guy down, they always stood with their fists up, waiting for the heavy to get back on his feet. I decided I was going to drag the bad guy to his feet and keep hitting him.

I’m more of a realist when it comes to life, and I’d much rather my mother be in a spiritual place in Heaven than in a bed, sick, fighting for her life.