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I was arrested in 1965 for opposing the war in Vietnam. There were 39 of us arrested that day. But thousands opposed us. And the… — Bill Ayers
I would say that the Pentagon Papers case of 1971 - in which the government tried to block the The New York Times and The… — Floyd Abrams
The entire deaths of Vietnam died in vain. And they're dying in vain right this very second. And you know what's worse than a soldier… — Mike Gravel
Any of these Vietnam vets that have been there and know the deal, they don't feel that any Hollywood endeavor about the Vietnam era has… — Sam Elliott
Back when the country was strong, back before Elvis and before the Vietnam war came along. — Merle Haggard
There is no question in my mind that we live in one of the truly bestial centuries in human history. There are plenty of signposts… — Erwin Chargaff
I'm old and crazy, but I still give a damn. And I still think the boys got screwed over in Vietnam. — Waylon Jennings
I had grown up during Vietnam. I had no connections to the U.S. military, and I had a pretty cynical default opinion about the U.S.… — Sebastian Junger
It took me 14 years to write poems about Vietnam. I had never thought about writing about it, and in a way I had been… — Yusef Komunyakaa
Vietnam helped me to look at the horror and terror in the hearts of people and realize how we can't aim guns and set booby… — Yusef Komunyakaa
The war in Vietnam was not lost in the field, nor was it lost on the front pages of the New York Times or the… — H. R. McMaster
The World War II generation believed the United States could do anything - anything... And Vietnam was a shattering experience for everyone. — Richard Holbrooke
If we were not in Vietnam, all that part of the world would be enjoying the obscurity it so richly deserves. — John Kenneth Galbraith
I think that the war on drugs is domestic Vietnam. And didn't we learn from Vietnam that, at a certain point in the war, we… — Kurt Schmoke
We have no honorable intentions in Vietnam. Our minimal expectation is to occupy it as an American colony and maintain social stability for our investments.… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
We certainly see opportunities in Vietnam for talented people to have jobs in the IT sector, including the improvement of the efficiency of the economy… — Bill Gates
America is not fighting to win a war. We are fighting to give an application to an old Greek proverb, which is that the purpose… — Arthur Goldberg
The war in vietnam threatened to tear our society apart, and the political and philosophical disagreements that separated each side continue, to some extent. It's… — Ronald Reagan
Had there been a reporter along with Lieutenant Calley when he massacred those people in Vietnam, I think that probably wouldn't have happened. — Bob Schieffer
I am afraid if the present trend in Vietnam continues that direct confrontation, first of all between Washington and Peking, is inevitable. — U Thant
We have forgotten that Vietnam, and Iraq resent being invaded and know the ground better than we do. — Wendell Berry
Some people just wanted to blow it all to hell, animal, vegetable and mineral. They wanted a Vietnam they could fit into their car ashtrays. — Michael Herr
This war in Vietnam is, I believe, a war for civilization. Certainly it is not a war of our seeking. It is a war thrust… — Francis Spellman
In point of fact all Americans are automatically turned down by China these days because of the escalation of Johnson's war in Vietnam, which several… — Anna Louise Strong
I saw a large, red dried swath that I immediately identified clearly as blood. I covered the war in Vietnam. I saw a lot of… — Sam Donaldson

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