Vietnam war Quotes

Yes, I wish I'd done it sooner.

— Richard M. Nixon

“It don't mean nothin”

— Bruce H. Norton

“Last night I dreamed of Peace.”

— Anonymous

Helvetica is the font of the Vietnam War.

— Paula Scher

How much blood makes a 'bloodbath'?

— Mort Kondracke

I see light at the end of the tunnel.

— Walt Whitman Rostow

We believe that peace is at hand.

— Henry A. Kissinger

“Too young for Korea, too old for Vietnam.”

— Don DeLillo

Hollywood never knew there was a Vietnam War until they made the movie.

— Jerry Stiller

My father is American and deserted the Vietnam War.

— Joel Kinnaman

The Vietnam War was happening, but Lubbock was... They put a pinch on it.

— Bob Livingston

I'm not going to be the first American president to lose a war.

— Richard M. Nixon

“Know what an optimist is, Major? A pessimist without much experience.”

— Nicholas Proffitt

My father fought alongside Aussie and U.S. soldiers in the Vietnam War.

— Anh Do

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

— Mike Mansfield

America lost its face with the debacle of the Vietnam War.

— Tiny Tim

Many of the architects of the Vietnam War became near pariahs as they spent the remainder of their lives in the futile…

— Graydon Carter

The Philippines was with the U.S. in the Second World War, in the Korean War, in the Vietnam War, and now in…

— Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

The impact of the Vietnam War on TV made everyone recognize the importance of visual media.

— Mark Kurlansky

To say that we are closer to victory today is to believe, in the face of the evidence, the optimists who have…

— Walter Cronkite

The Vietnam War was a great tragedy for our country. And it is now far enough away so that one can study…

— Henry Kissinger

“Stories are for eternity, when memory is erased, when there is nothing to remember except the story.”

— Tim O'Brien

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

— William Westmoreland

I'm not going to say I was opposed to the Vietnam War. I'm going to say I'm opposed to war. But I'm…

— John Wooden

“In all, the future secretary of defense and wartime vice president[, Dick Cheney,] would receive five deferments during the Vietnam War, protecting…

— Charlie Savage

I was very much a child of the 1960s. I protested the Vietnam War and grew up in a fairly politicized home.…

— Marianne Williamson

When it came to the Vietnam War, Mr. McNamara was an early advocate of escalation but came to realize the flaws in…

— Samantha Power

Having gone through the civil rights struggle, having gone through the anti-Vietnam War struggle, by the time I was in my 20s,…

— Paul Solman

The greatest contribution Vietnam is making-right or wrong is beside the point-is that it is developing an ability in the United States…

— Robert McNamara

Those days [of the Vietnam War] you couldn't get on a bus going to the South without expecting a riot over something…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Before the Civil War, Canada was at the top of the underground railroad. If you made it into Canada, you were safe…

— Margaret Atwood

Numbers have dehumanized us. Over breakfast coffee we read of 40,000 American dead in Vietnam. Instead of vomiting, we reach for the…

— Dalton Trumbo

“One might think that as a country almost always involved in a military operation of one kind or another, the United States…

— Beth Linker

“When I say my wound became political in the years that followed, I don't mean that my involvement in the anti-war movement…

— Siri Hustvedt

“I always liked your piety, Jack.” “I’m a lot cuter than the women of your generation,” Betsy said, playing up to Capers…

— Pat Conroy

Neoconservatives and the Pentagon have good reason to fear the return of the Vietnam Syndrome. The label intentionally suggests a disease, a…

— Tom Hayden

“The Mozart sonata Dad picked out begins to play. When we hear the first note, we open the sacks and the ladybugs…

— Kimberly Willis Holt

“In a representative democracy, the media is in a unique position to shine a light on those with power and how they…

— Richard Haas

There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add…

— Philip Caputo

The unraveling that I experienced much earlier in the Vietnam war than many people think, was due to the immediate foxhole experiences.…

— Philip Caputo