Vietnam War Quotes
129 quotes by 105 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Have you ever had any anger about President Bush - who spent his time during the Vietnam War in the National Guard - running, in…
— Dan Rather
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Hollywood never knew there was a Vietnam War until they made the movie.
— Jerry Stiller
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I was not able to stop or slow down the Vietnam War.
— Mike Mansfield
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Regret what? That secret operation was an excellent idea. It had the effect of drawing the Russians into the Afghan trap and you want me…
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
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On the Vietnam War: I've lived under situations where every decent man declared war first and I've lived under situations where you don't declare war.…
— Lewis Blaine Hershey
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With all the arguments and discussions about the Vietnam War, what did the visual image do? It ended the war.
— Cornell Capa
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One of the questions asked in that study was, How many Vietnamese casualties would you estimate that there were during the Vietnam war? The average…
— Noam Chomsky
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I got my head bashed in at a demonstration against the Vietnam War. Police were losing control because they were up against a world they…
— Terry Gilliam
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In revealing the workings of government that led to the Vietnam War, the newspapers nobly did precisely that which the Founders hoped and trusted they…
— Hugo Black
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When it came to political power, blacks need not apply. Add to this steaming stew the growing tensions over the Vietnam War and the movement…
— Andrea Mitchell
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Philadelphia reflected the national turmoil over race and the Vietnam War, often exploding on my watch.
— Andrea Mitchell
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By the year 2025, 500 million people will die of smoking. Now, that's a Vietnam War every day for 27 years. That's the Titanic sinking…
— C. Everett Koop
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So much of my work involved the Vietnam War that it would have been obscene to show it in a gallery. But now, it’s different;…
— Martha Rosler
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I'd been a child during the 1960s when women burned their bras and hundreds of thousands gathered in protests against the Vietnam War. As a…
— Lynn Hill
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My parents demonstrated against the Vietnam war, they were into the civil rights movement, the feminist movement, they started the first vegetarian restaurant in Pittsburgh.
— Justin Sane
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In April 1975 I was born and the Vietnam War ended. I could not let any American die in war before seeing an episode of…
— Zach Braff
Who Wrote These Vietnam War Quotes
105 authors contributed a total of 129 Vietnam War Quotes, led by these top contributors: