The Sinews of Peace (The Iron Curtain Speech)
Delivered on March 5, 1946, at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, warning of Soviet expansionism and famously coining the term "Iron Curtain".
Full Transcript
From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe.
Warsaw, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade, Bucharest and Sofia, all these famous cities and the populations around them lie in what I must call the Soviet sphere, and all are subject in one form or another, not only to Soviet influence but to a very high and, in some cases, increasing measure of control from Moscow.
From what I have seen of our Russian friends and allies during the war, I am convinced that there is nothing they admire so much as strength, and there is nothing for which they have less respect than for weakness, especially military weakness.
Defining Key Excerpts
"From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent."
"Safety does not lie in small margins... our power must be united."
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