Postwar Quotes

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 benefiting 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. - Ronald Reagan

We discussed the history of postwar Japan and how Japan had missed an opportunity to build a more functional democracy because of the focus on fighting communism driven in large part by the American occupation. - Joichi Ito

Voters are not looking for creative, forward-looking candidates, they are looking for people who they think can protect them. They fall back on the familiar and the powerful. The same thing happened in postwar Bosnia, where the parties that fed the conflict in the first place got most of the vote. - James Dobbins

Those massive between-the-wars brick apartment buildings that stand in dour solidity - their benefits, their endurance all turned inward, and not nervously flaunted in the manner of their flimsier postwar descendants. - Anthony Bailey

The United States has been in the forefront of the postwar opening up of international markets, much to our, and the rest of the world's, benefit... It would be a great tragedy were that process reversed. - Alan Greenspan

The Russians obtained a number of plants under Lend-Lease, which had been authorized by Washington, that I thought were not justified for their war effort. They wanted them for postwar use. - W. Averell Harriman

The one irrefutable lesson of the entire postwar period [is] contradicting the notion that rigid government controls are essential to economic development. - Ronald Reagan

The European brand of fascism will probably present its most serious postwar threat to us via Latin America. - Henry A. Wallace

The estimated loss of up to six million dead is founded too much on both emotional, biased testimonies and on exaggerated data in the postwar reckonings of war crimes and on the squaring of accounts with the defeated. - Franjo Tudjman