Vietnam War Quotes
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Vietnam War Quotes & Sayings
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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 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
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
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
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
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
Being stubborn won't make you fluent. Practicing will! The more mistakes you make, the more you'll learn not to.
— Thanhha Lai
The true lesson of the Vietnam War is: certainty of purpose and ruthlessness of execution win wars.
— Ronald Reagan
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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