Best Vietnam Wisdom
447 Vietnam quotes by 307 unique authors
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I'd rather go to Vietnam than get married.
— Joe Namath
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No one is immune from the larger events of his or her time - the Depression, World War II, civil rights, Vietnam, the spring of…
— Paul Tsongas
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I'm sure that President Johnson would never have pursued the war in Vietnam if he'd ever had a Fulbright to Japan, or say Bangkok, or…
— J. William Fulbright
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I went to Kent State basically to avoid going to Vietnam, I had no idea what I was doing in the world. I was lost,…
— Mark Mothersbaugh
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In Vietnam we have no political prisoners. No one is arrested or jailed for his or her speech or point of view. They are put…
— Nong ?uc Manh
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What is in the Constitution is the burning desire and aspiration of all the people of Vietnam. So for the moment, we don't think about…
— Nong ?uc Manh
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I'm not so sure that people consider homelessness to be as important as, say, the Vietnam War. One should never even try to equate them…
— Graham Nash
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Uncle fought in Vietnam and then he fought a war all by himself.
— Bob Dylan
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My first professional acting job was in 'Hair' during the Vietnam War. So I think I've always been drawn to projects with a social conscience.
— Clarke Peters
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Vietnam was as much a laboratory experiment as a war.
— John Pilger
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I spent about seven years during the Vietnam War flight-testing airplanes for the Air Force. And then I went in and I had a lot…
— Burt Rutan
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Vietnam was a lie but at least there was a political agenda. It was the domino theory. Iraq is about nothing but George Bush's ego…
— Donald Sutherland
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Hippies started the ecology movement. They combated racism. They liberated sexual stereotypes, encouraged change, individual pride, and self-confidence. They questioned robot materialism. In four years…
— Timothy Leary
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My opposition to the Vietnam War. I was the first Hollywood actor to speak out against it.
— Robert Vaughn
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You go back and look at things like Civil War, World War II, Vietnam, a lot of people dying in state-sponsored arm conflict
— Juan Williams
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The important point was that whatever errors America had made [in Vietnam] "we are so powerful [according to Secretary Kissinger] that Hanoi is simply unable…
— William Shawcross
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So, I've never been politically correct, even before that term was available to us, and I have really identified with other people who don't want…
— Diane Wakoski
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I think the new generations in America, the America's youth, no longer care about Vietnam. They don't want to hear any more about it.
— Alexander Haig
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The AIDS epidemic has rolled back a big rotting log and revealed all the squirming life underneath it, since it involves, all at once, the…
— Edmund White
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I was terrified of the Vietnam War when I was 13. I thought I was going. The draft was such an ominous thing, I felt…
— Dylan McDermott
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The war in Vietnam I thought a dreadful mistake.
— Stephen Ambrose
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East Asia has prospered since the end of the Vietnam War, and Northeast Asia has prospered since the end of the Korean War in a…
— William C. Kirby
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It seems to me the American people never really forgave the Democrats for being right about Vietnam.
— Paul Begala
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It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking…
— Vida Blue
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Two thousand people a day were being murdered in Vietnam in a terrorist war, an official terrorist war.
— Bill Ayers
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