Best Vietnam Thoughts
447 Vietnam quotes by 307 unique authors
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I was too important to go to Vietnam.
— Mitt Romney
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A first novel of astonishing force, craft and beauty, The Headmaster's Wager conjures up a dizzyingly evocative wartime Saigon in the story of Percival Chen,…
— Janice Y. K. Lee
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A great read; an exciting, frightening account of organized crime today. But like all important works of nonfiction, it goes further… This book is must…
— Le Ly Hayslip
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I was caught up in the hysteria during the Vietnam era, which was brought about through Marxist propaganda underlying the so-called peace movement.
— Jon Voight
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It would take 2,000 Vietnam Memorials to list the [Twentieth] century's war dead.
— Kim Stanley
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Moms and daughters can negotiate over anything, and they can go on longer than it took to settle the Vietnam War.
— Steve Schirripa
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Millions also perished in the Chinese camps, and there have been terrible genocides in Cambodia and Vietnam.
— Jean-Marie Le Pen
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Nixon did have a secret plan, and I knew that it involved making threats of nuclear war to North Vietnam.
— Daniel Ellsberg
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Think of what big governments have gotten up to in this century : not one, but two world wars, the gulag, the holocaust, aerial bombing…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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He's a novice, but he's had these - he's experienced in leadership in tight circumstances. He started - he dropped the first bomb, led the…
— James Stockdale
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At least I'm at peace with myself. I have done my best to write a book about what really happened there and why it happened…
— Neil Sheehan
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The people who were against the Vietnam War thought I was attacking the Army. The guys in the Army thought I was representing their experiences.…
— Mort Walker
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Somehow this madness must cease. We must stop now. I speak as a child of God and brother to the suffering poor of Vietnam. I…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Better still - your history has shown how powerful a moral catharsis expressed through popular resistance to injustice can sometimes be; I have in mind…
— Breyten Breytenbach
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After Vietnam, the Democrats became fundamentally the anti-military as a party.
— Heather Wilson
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I volunteered 35 years ago to go to Vietnam and the guy I was running against got out of going to Vietnam with a trick…
— Max Cleland
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In Japan people drive on the left. In China people drive on the right. In Vietnam it doesn't matter.
— P.J. O'Rourke
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Prior art is as effective as US soldiers in Iraq: They control the ground they stand on, and nothing more. I used to say Vietnam,…
— Richard Stallman
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I served two tours of duty in Vietnam. I won the Bronze Star. I won the Purple Heart.
— Ron Kovic
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If America's soul becomes totally poisoned, part of the autopsy must read Vietnam. It can never be saved so long as it destroys the hopes…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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'These boat people,' says the government of Hong Kong, 'they all want to go to America.' Well, I swear I don't know why, do you?…
— Linda Ellerbee
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[democrats] hated Richard Nixon, and no wonder. It was Nixon who sent Alger Hiss to jail, and Nixon who waged the Vietnam War after the…
— David Frum
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Vietnam is the Liberals' favorite was because America lost
— Ann Coulter
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I have been to several wars to draw. I went to Vietnam. And made drawings in Vietnam during that period of the war there, and…
— Gerald Scarfe
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For a decade or more after the Vietnam war, the people who had guided the U.S. to disaster decently shrank from the public stage.
— James Fallows
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