Alexander Haig Quotes

To declare the Cold War over, and declare democracy has won out over totalitarianism, is a measure of arrogance and wrong-headedness.

Alexander Haig

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• Democracy
• Cold
• Arrogance
• Cold War
• Totalitarianism

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  • War
  • Democracy
  • Cold