When I was a boy we didn't wake up with Vietnam and have Cyprus for lunch and the Congo for dinner. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Militarily, we succeeded in Vietnam. We won every engagement we were involved in out there. — William Westmoreland Copy Share Image
I served two tours of duty in Vietnam. I won the Bronze Star. I won the Purple Heart. — Ron Kovic Copy Share Image
The Quiet American is anti the people who took them into the Vietnam War. — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
Normally, I try to get my haircut when I'm in a developing country. Last time, it was in Vietnam. — Ingvar Kamprad Copy Share Image
[Dissidents] groups would benefit enormously from learning about Ho Chi Minh's ideas on how to defeat a more popular enemy. — William J. Duiker Copy Share Image
The message of Vietnam is not that Americans will not take casualties; it is that the American people do not want the… — Ralph Peters Copy Share Image
Latin American countries are part of the West and that it is reasonable to expect a certain degree of openness in their… — Mark Falcoff Copy Share Image
When the advice of Moscow ran counter to [Ho Chi Minh's] own ideas - as in the 1930s - he kept his… — William J. Duiker Copy Share Image
Sun Tzu's ideas as expressed above had a profound effect on Ho Chi Minh, who sought to defeat both the French and… — William J. Duiker Copy Share Image
And the Blue Angels are coming back to scare the local population. I remember seeing old Vietnamese women ducking under the benches… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
I've often wondered what it would have been like if we'd had cable news during the Vietnam War and Watergate. — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
Malcolm X was the first prominent American to attack and to criticize the U.S. role in Southeast Asia, and he came out… — Manning Marable Copy Share Image
There was a time when liberalism was identified with anti-Communism. But the Vietnam War led liberals into the arms of the Left,… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
The Vietnamese Hoa were merchants and manufacturers. They were very successful and thus, according to the logic of Marxism, responsible for society's… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Yes, Obama took over two wars from Bush - just as President Richard Nixon inherited Vietnam from President Lyndon Johnson and President… — Bret Stephens Copy Share Image
During my three years in Vietnam, I certainly heard plenty of last words by dying American footsoldiers. Not one of them, however,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Yes and no. Because America has only about 1 percent of the population serving in the military, it is hard for many… — Steve Stivers Copy Share Image
Vietnam affected everything in life while it went on. My time in the service made it clear to me that what we… — Jim Starlin Copy Share Image
We will continue to ignore political and economic forecasts, which are an expensive distraction for many investors and businessmen. Thirty years ago,… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Money, as a sort of drug, has become a great danger to our development. There will be no progress in our country… — Nguyen Minh Triet Copy Share Image
“I would wish this book could take the form of a plea for everlasting peace, a plea from one who knows... Or… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
People look at things differently. Imagine going to a village in Southern Sudan and try to explain to someone there the concept… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
“the Tet surprise was regarded by Westy as proof of Hanoi’s weakness. Nowhere in his understanding of the war was there room… — Mark Bowden Copy Share Image
I try to express with the camera what the story is, to get to the heart of the story with picture. In… — Horst Faas Copy Share Image
“In battle, in a war, a soldier sees only a tiny fragment of what is available to be seen. The soldier is… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
The intellectual and moral failures common to America's general officer corps in Vietnam and Iraq constitute a crisis in American generalship. Any… — Paul Yingling Copy Share Image
I had the privilege and the honor of chairing the Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs. And it is interesting to me, you… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
I saw a man walk into my camera viewfinder from the left. He took a pistol out of his holster and raised… — Eddie Adams Copy Share Image
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