Vietnam Quotes

447 quotes by 314 authors

Before the Civil War, Canada was at the top of the underground railroad. If you made it into Canada, you were safe unless someone came… — Margaret Atwood
The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies.… — J. G. Ballard
I had the good fortune to be able to right an injustice that I thought was being heaped on young people by lowering the voting… — Birch Bayh
Watergate enabled the Democrats to cut off all aid to South Vietnam and ensure American defeat in a war their party entered and had effectively… — Conrad Black
I'm a lad of the '60s. I started a magazine to try and end the Vietnam war, but it was a number of years before… — Richard Branson
Suicidal violence is not the exclusive property of the Muslim world. Suicide bombings were a tactic of nationalist struggles in 19th-century Europe and Russia, the… — James Buchan
I hope I'm wrong, but I am afraid that Iraq is going to turn out to be the greatest disaster in American foreign policy -… — Madeleine Albright
My mind-set is Munich. Most of my generation's is Vietnam. — Madeleine Albright
Well, look at what people are doing for returned veterans now. The wounded warriors. They're working hard to make the wounded veterans feel that they… — Barbara Bush
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… — George H. W. Bush
Many of the architects of the Vietnam War became near pariahs as they spent the remainder of their lives in the futile quest to explain… — Graydon Carter
I was too young for Korea and too old for Vietnam. — Stephen Ambrose
The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror. — Oliver Stone
Yippies, Hippies, Yahoos, Black Panthers, lions and tigers alike - I would swap the whole damn zoo for the kind of young Americans I saw… — Spiro T. Agnew
These men were wrongfully rejected, the veterans. The fighting man should never have been blamed for Vietnam. — Neil Sheehan
I want to make sure that the Coast Guard people in Vietnam know that I am hearing about them often and that I am pleased… — Wallace M. Greene
The hardest thing for me in Vietnam wasn't seeing the wounded and dead. It was watching the big transport jets come in, bringing loads of… — Johnny Cash
Vietnam should remind conservatives that whenever you put your faith in big government for any reason, sooner or later you wind up an apologist for… — Karl Hess
The bombs in Vietnam explode at home; they destroy the hopes and possibilities for a decent America. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust [our own] government statements. — J. William Fulbright

Who Wrote These Vietnam Quotes

314 authors contributed a total of 447 Vietnam Quotes, led by these top contributors: