One thing is clear, the president of North Vietnam is not a fanatic. He is a very strong and determined man, but… — Martin Niemoller Copy Share Image
Lyndon Johnson who was the president who was executing that war, announced in the spring of 1968 that he would not seek… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
I had grown up during Vietnam. I had no connections to the U.S. military, and I had a pretty cynical default opinion… — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
Obviously all of us have thought about Vietnam, particularly in my generation in Australia that were part of conscription and fought there.… — Phillip Noyce Copy Share Image
Korea taught me nothing, for no one spoke of it when I was growing up, except as something about how wonderful the… — Gloria Emerson Copy Share Image
If there were only one place to eat, I would pick anywhere in Northern Vietnam where you get the French and Vietnamese… — Jeannie Mai Copy Share Image
There have been two popular subjects for poetry in the last few decades: the Vietnam War and AIDS, about both of which… — Thom Gunn Copy Share Image
The massive anti-war movement, which I was a part of and which was a major part of my life, never stopped the… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
The important point was that whatever errors America had made [in Vietnam] "we are so powerful [according to Secretary Kissinger] that Hanoi… — William Shawcross Copy Share Image
Eisenhower managed to begin the Vietnam war by not following his normal instinct of staying out of mischief. In his memoirs, he… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
For my generation - the "Children of Nixon," as I call us in the book - the Lebanese civil war was an… — Annia Ciezadlo Copy Share Image
Our young men in Vietnam have not only acquitted themselves in an outstanding manner during combat operations, but they also have been… — Lewis William Walt Copy Share Image
“The first ring glowed in the distance, lit up by consumerism that was brought to Jakarta courtesy of western cultures and Christian… — Tucker Elliot Copy Share Image
The New York Times is reporting that back in the '60s, presidential candidate Howard Dean used a letter from a doctor about… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
Some of the critics viewed Vietnam as a morality play in which the wicked must be punished before the final curtain and… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
I wasn't happy with the outcome in Vietnam. Now, I've never said that, but, you know, I'm getting to an age where… — Alexander Haig Copy Share Image
Our resistance will be long and painful, but whatever the sacrifices, however long the struggle, we shall fight to the end, until… — Ho Chi Minh Copy Share Image
“a group of villagers in the highlands of Vietnam, he’d discovered the crash site of four U.S. soldiers who had gone missing… — Susan Wiggs Copy Share Image
During the Fifties, political and military activities in Vietnam were heavily influenced by the French, who as recent colonial masters, made all-important… — Nguyen Cao Ky Copy Share Image
I was in a community where we were out demonstrating. We were holding vigils against the Vietnam War, in - like, starting… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
It's not right to say that our loss in Vietnam turned out to be a gain. But lessons were learned. And they… — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
The United States must keep a low profile in Vietnam so we can negotiate its neutralization like we did in Laos . — Roger Hilsman Copy Share Image
During the Vietnam War, Abbie Hoffman announced that the new high was banana peels taken rectally. So then FBI scientists stuffed banana… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The whole thing about whether you smoke marijuana or not is so ridiculous. That and whether you protested the Vietnam War. Give… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Ho Chi Minh and Vietnam were perfect for Lyndon Johnson: 220 million against 18 million, water buffalo and all. No risk, really. — David Douglas Duncan Copy Share Image
The US military still blames the media for stories and images that turned the American public against the war in Vietnam. — Bruce Jackson Copy Share Image
By the year 2025, 500 million people will die of smoking. Now, that's a Vietnam War every day for 27 years. That's… — C. Everett Koop Copy Share Image
The French repulsed wave after wave of frontal attacks at Dien Bien Phu. The 1968 Tet offensive against the U.S. was a… — John McCain Copy Share Image
When I visited Vietnam for Oxfam, the thing that really struck me was how the local farmers had to prepare to evacuate… — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
We could not bring democracy to South Vietnam at a cost that we were willing to accept. So it was a disaster.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Better still - your history has shown how powerful a moral catharsis expressed through popular resistance to injustice can sometimes be; I… — Breyten Breytenbach Copy Share Image
This nation should be less worried about putting the Vietnam syndrome behind us than restarting the World War II victory syndrome that… — Karl Marlantes Copy Share Image
“In all of my years doing this job, I have never given the drug to anyone over three months pregnant; not once,… — Kien Nguyen Copy Share Image
I get very sad when I think about Vietnam where there seems to be no choice but violence. This violence goes on… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
You're not a baby boomer if you don't have a visceral recollection of a Kennedy and a King assassination, a Beatles breakup,… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Certainly the Australians were buried in Korea. But I think that from Vietnam on, all the killed were brought home to America… — Peter Scott Copy Share Image
Under Malcolm Fraser's Liberal governments in the 1970s, large numbers of refugees fleeing Vietnam in wretched boats were taken in without any… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's worth remembering that in 1965, something like 20% of Americans were against the war. Something like 70% were for the war.… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
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