Famous Vietnam Proverbs
447 Vietnam quotes by 307 unique authors
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You don't attack the grunts of Vietnam; you blame the theory behind the war. Nobody who fought in that war was at fault. It was…
— James Hillman
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It's shades of Vietnam again, folks: body counts.
— Seymour Hersh
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Your generation and mine have had very little real experience; we've been severed from the direct experience of war by some very good things. By…
— Michael Ignatieff
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Vietnam is often called our only uncensored war, but that only means that the government wasn't vetting the pictures and words.
— Bruce Jackson
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Well, I think everybody's a little jealous of the Vietnam Wall, even people from wars that already have good monuments. You have a monument like…
— Bruce Jackson
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We didn't lose Vietnam. We quit Vietnam.
— Alexander Haig
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It seems to be that when these communist regimes take over - if you look at the example of Vietnam or Cambodia or Nicaragua -…
— John Negroponte
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I'm happy that I'm alive. I feel like someone coming back from Vietnam, you know; I'm sure that later on I'll start killing people in…
— Lars Von Trier
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John Kerry was a thorn in our flesh. He was very articulate, a credible leader of the opposition. He forced us to create a counterfoil.…
— Unknown Author
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I deplore this kind of politics. I think the ad is dishonest and dishonorable. As it is, none of these individuals served on the boat…
— John McCain
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I defended him [John McCain] in those hearings when some stupid-ass right-wing idiot accused him of being the Manchurian Candidate, that somehow the Vietnamese had…
— Senator John Kerry
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Someone has to die so that President Nixon won't be, and these are his words, 'the first President to lose a war.
— Senator John Kerry
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I believe that when you know something's going wrong, you make it right. That's what I learned in Vietnam. When I came back from that…
— Senator John Kerry
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Yesterday I got a letter from my friend fighting in Vietnam and this is what he had to say: 'tell all my friends that I'll…
— Jimmy Cliff
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Hey honkies. You folks wanna buy some heroin? Goddamnit, I'm serious. All I'm trying to sell you is some pure fucking smack! This is the…
— Dr Gonzo
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During college I traveled the world. I've worked with Fidel Castro and Nelson Mandela, I've met the Dalai Llama, I've been to the Taj Mahal…
— Aubrey O'Day
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I think people who produce and perform on programs for children should have as a prerequisite some sort of course to understand their audience. You…
— Fred Rogers
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When the Vietnam war began I was nuts. I was wearing bell-bottomed pants and let my hair grow. I looked like an idiot. I'd loved…
— Ed O'Neill
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Surprisingly, it seems to be a very apathetic age in America. You know, during Vietnam I played Kent State University, shortly after the shootings and…
— Elton John
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I'm certainly gratified that my name helps a film like this get made, and it's a film that Phillip has wanted to make for years,…
— Brendan Fraser
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What makes us omniscient? Have we a record of omniscience? We are the strongest nation in the world today. I do not believe we should…
— Robert McNamara
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The consequences of President Johnson's campaign of deliberate deception regarding Vietnam could hardly have been more catastrophic for the nation, the military, the president, his…
— Eric Alterman
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