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I learned a lot from Vietnam veterans, especially as some of them turned against their own war. — Robert Jay Lifton

I was appraising . . . not eye fooking. — Paul Allor

Back on the block they probably call Big Al "Fat Albert" but here in the Nam we don't insult our friends. — Derrick Wolf

Nixon did have a secret plan, and I knew that it involved making threats of nuclear war to North Vietnam. — Daniel Ellsberg

Nothing existed outside ourselves and school. For us, the world of politics, social revolution, the war in Vietnam never happened. — Rachel Klein

I left the Democratic Party basically on issues of national security during the end of the Vietnam War. — Jim Webb

I predict you will sink step by step into a bottomless quagmire, however much you spend in men and money. (On Vietnam War) — Charles De Gaulle

You go back and look at things like Civil War, World War II, Vietnam, a lot of people dying in state-sponsored arm conflict — Juan Williams

Vietnam was the first war ever fought without any censorship. Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind. — William Westmoreland

The signs of the Vietnam War protestors said "Make Love not War!" It didn't seem to me that they were capable of either. — Ronald Reagan

I hate being told I can't do something because I'm a girl! — Thanhha Lai

Post-Traumatic Stress Injury isn't a disease. It's a wound to the soul that never heals. — Tom Glenn

We still seek no wider war. — Lyndon B. Johnson

Because Vietnam was not a declared war, the veterans are not even eligible for the G. I. Bill of Rights with respect to education or anything. — Ronald Reagan

Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation. — Edward R. Murrow

With all the arguments and discussions about the Vietnam War, what did the visual image do? It ended the war. — Cornell Capa

I saw courage both in the Vietnam War and in the struggle to stop it. I learned that patriotism includes protest, not just military service. — John F. Kerry

World War II was just as dirty and brutal as Vietnam, just as confusing. — David Ayer

I saw a large, red dried swath that I immediately identified clearly as blood. I covered the war in Vietnam. I saw a lot of it [blood] there. — Sam Donaldson

I went to Vietnam; it was my first assignment as a reporter for the UPI, and I never could get away from the war. — Neil Sheehan

They say in death our war is over. I don't believe that. — Paul Allor

President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave their brothers in the South alone. — William Westmoreland

Last night I dreamed of Peace. — Dang Thuy Tram

The US military still blames the media for stories and images that turned the American public against the war in Vietnam. — Bruce Jackson

I said to the president's wife, Vietnam is the main reason we are having trouble with the youth of America. It is a war without explanation or reason. — Eartha Kitt

How do you ask a man to be the last man to die in Vietnam? How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake? — John F. Kerry

Boys, it is just like the Alamo. Somebody should have by God helped those Texans. I'm going to Vietnam. — Lyndon B. Johnson

I remember being a kid and the Vietnam War was huge and looking at Watergate. — David Cross

Being stubborn won't make you fluent. Practicing will! The more mistakes you make, the more you'll learn not to. — Thanhha Lai

Maybe the Americans should have brought baseballs instead of bombs. — Ann E. Burg

The true lesson of the Vietnam War is: certainty of purpose and ruthlessness of execution win wars. — Ronald Reagan

If John McCain were really a war hero he would've won Vietnam. — Zach Braff

There is one hell of a difference between fighting in the ring and going to war in Vietnam. — Muhammad Ali

I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle. — Barry Goldwater

No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now. — Richard M. Nixon

Back when the country was strong, back before Elvis and before the Vietnam war came along. — Merle Haggard

For years now there had been no country here but the war. — Michael Herr

Mr. President, I love you, but you're wrong. (To Richard Nixon, on the Vietnam War) — Paul Harvey

The U.S. dropped more high explosives on Vietnam than the Allies used on Germany and Japan together in the Second World War. — Nick Davies

I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there. — Sammy Davis Jr.

We must never forget that if the war in Vietnam is lost ... the right of free speech will be extinguished throughout the world. — Richard M. Nixon

You will kill ten of us, we will kill one of you, but in the end, you will tire of it first. — Ho Chi Minh

My opposition to the Vietnam War. I was the first Hollywood actor to speak out against it. — Robert Vaughn

It's Kennedy's war, Vietnam. Lyndon Johnson got all the flak, but it's Kennedy's war. — Salman Rushdie

Vietnam ... war ... it did something to us. Or maybe not. Maybe the bad seeds were always in me, and war gave them a dark place in which to grow. — Kristin Hannah

I think war is a crime. If you don't believe me, ask the infantry, ask the dead. — Michael McCormick

This war has already stretched the generation gap so wide that it threatens to pull the country apart. — Frank Church

Helvetica is the font of the Vietnam War. — Paula Scher

Moms and daughters can negotiate over anything, and they can go on longer than it took to settle the Vietnam War. — Steve Schirripa

'Matterhorn' is my metaphor of the Vietnam War - we built it, we abandoned it, we assaulted it, we lost, and then we abandoned it again. — Karl Marlantes

If the war has faded into history, democracy's defeat in Vietnam has left deep marks in the consciousness of both nations. — Nguyen Cao Ky

Each morning, despite the unknowns, they made their legs move. — Tim O'Brien

In April 1975 I was born and the Vietnam War ended. I could not let any American die in war before seeing an episode of Scrubs. — Zach Braff

They told me if I voted for Goldwater, he would get us into a war in Vietnam. Well, I voted for Goldwater and that's what happened. — William F. Buckley Jr.

Philadelphia reflected the national turmoil over race and the Vietnam War, often exploding on my watch. — Andrea Mitchell

I'm not going to be the first American president to lose a war. — Richard M. Nixon

Iraq was a war of choice, like Vietnam. — Chuck Hagel

The men in Vietnam weren't allowed to fight the war with any kind of concern to win by the government. It was like a war of attrition. — Sylvester Stallone

He was telling war stories. The funny, innocuous ones that made everyone forget that war could leave you without fingers, or legs, or a soul. — Sabrina Fedel

The Quiet American is anti the people who took them into the Vietnam War. — Michael Caine

The war in Vietnam I thought a dreadful mistake. — Stephen Ambrose

We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war. — Zbigniew Brzezinski

One of the good things about the way the Gulf War ended in 1991 is, you'd see the Vietnam veterans marching with the Gulf War veterans. — George H. W. Bush

My view of Bradley Manning is that he's a very courageous young man who ... did what I didn't have the guts to do during the Vietnam war. — Ray McGovern

So now it turns out that Thomas Jefferson was having sex with Sally Hemings while serving in the 101st Airborne during the Vietnam War. — Ann Coulter

The war in Vietnam is going well and will succeed. — Robert McNamara

It became necessary to destroy the town to save it, — Peter Arnett

Vietnam was as much a laboratory experiment as a war. — John Pilger

I had lots of friends who were fighting in Vietnam and I am still friends with veterans of the war. — Gordon Lightfoot

I hated him for making me stop hating him — Tim O'Brien

How, then, can the feds justify favoring sons of Hispanics over sons of white Americans who fought in World War II or Vietnam? — Pat Buchanan

Above all, Vietnam was a war that asked everything of a few and nothing of most in America. — Myra MacPherson

It won't hurt you. It's just to kill plants. It's called Agent Orange ... and it won't bother humans. — Karl Marlantes

Know what an optimist is, Major? A pessimist without much experience. — Nicholas Proffitt

In World War One, they called it shell shock. Second time around, they called it battle fatigue. After 'Nam, it was post-traumatic stress disorder. — Jan Karon

But this too is true: stories can save us. — Tim O'Brien

One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society ... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam. — Martin Luther King Jr.

For a decade or more after the Vietnam war, the people who had guided the U.S. to disaster decently shrank from the public stage. — James Fallows

Truth has a resonance to it that fills the cracks where falsehoods lie. — Rick DeStefanis

Lyndon Johnson may have escalated the war, but when I was drafted and shipped off to Vietnam, the signature on my orders was Nixon's. — Bob Gunton

The jungle changes a man. — Cynthia Kadohata

Too young for Korea, too old for Vietnam. — Don DeLillo

World War II brought the Greatest Generation together. Vietnam tore the Baby Boomers apart. — Jim Webb

The massive anti-war movement, which I was a part of and which was a major part of my life, never stopped the war in Vietnam. — Bill Ayers

I was the guy who was constantly speaking out against the Vietnam War. I have no regrets about that. — George McGovern

Stories can save us. — Tim O'Brien

It would take 2,000 Vietnam Memorials to list the [Twentieth] century's war dead. — Kim Stanley Robinson

And sometimes remembering will lead to a story, which makes it forever. — Tim O'Brien

I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies. — Benjamin Spock

I thought the Vietnam war was an utter, unmitigated disaster, so it was very hard for me to say anything good about it. — George McGovern

My first professional acting job was in 'Hair' during the Vietnam War. So I think I've always been drawn to projects with a social conscience. — Clarke Peters

From its inception, South Vietnam was only considered to be an outpost in the war against communism. — Nguyen Cao Ky

Vietnam was a country where America was trying to make people stop being communists by dropping things on them from airplanes. — Kurt Vonnegut

Vietnam is often called our only uncensored war, but that only means that the government wasn't vetting the pictures and words. — Bruce Jackson

If they didn't want to know, they shouldn't have asked. — James Webb

I was not able to stop or slow down the Vietnam War. — Mike Mansfield

To where? We don't know. To do what? We don't know either. No one tells us anything. We just follow orders. — Derrick Wolf

Senator Albert Gore Sr. was one of the first outspoken critics of the Vietnam War. — Peter Jennings

The bombs in Vietnam explode at home; they destroy the hopes and possibilities for a decent America. — Martin Luther King Jr.

The Vietnam war was fought over portion size. — Jon Stewart