Top 5 Cuban Missile Crisis Quotes

The most terrifying moment in my life was October 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis. I did not know all the facts - we have learned only recently how close we were to war - but I knew enough to make me tremble.

The most terrifying moment in my life was October 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis. I did not know all the facts - we have learned only recently how close we were to war - but I knew enough to make me tremble.

Joseph Rotblat

War, Scary, Cuban Missile Crisis

Joseph Rotblat, Daisaku Ikeda (2007). “A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat”, p.131, I.B.Tauris

We're eyeball to eyeball...and I think the other fellow just blinked.

Dean Rusk

War, Thinking, Cuban Missile Crisis

Quoted in Saturday Evening Post, 8 Dec. 1962

Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you!

Nikita Khrushchev

Cuban Missile Crisis, Sides, Call Of Duty

Speech to Western diplomats, Moscow, 18 Nov. 1956.

Of course, nobody does [want another Cuban Missile Crisis].

Vladimir Putin

Doe, Cuban Missile Crisis, Want

Source: thesaker.is

Originally, John Kennedy was going to come speak, and then Lyndon Johnson. Because it was October of '62, neither made it because of the Cuban missile crisis.

David Maraniss

Cuban Missile Crisis, October, Speak

"Super Bowl Commercial Inspires Maraniss To Write About Detroit's Better Times". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. January 14, 2016.