Best Vietnam War Quotes

129 Vietnam War quotes by 105 unique authors

The war against Vietnam is only the ghastliest manifestation of what I'd call imperial provincialism, which afflicts America's whole culture-aware only of its own history,… — Stephen Vizinczey
We believe that peace is at hand. — Henry A. Kissinger
You have my assurance that we will respond with full force should the settlement be violated by North Vietnam. — Richard M. Nixon
If the Americans do not want to support us anymore, let them go, get out! Let them forget their humanitarian promises! — Nguyen Van Thieu
Vietnam was what we had instead of happy childhoods. — Michael Herr
It's time that we recognized that ours was in truth a noble cause. — Ronald Reagan
Saigon was an addicted city, and we were the drug: the corruption of children, the mutilation of young men, the prostitution of women, the humiliation… — James Fenton
America has made no reparation to the Vietnamese, nothing. We are the richest people in the world and they are among the poorest. We savaged… — Martha Gellhorn
I'm not so much against the war as I am for a Vietnamese victory. I'm not so much for peace as for a U.S. defeat. — Bill Ayers
The atrocities in Cambodia are a direct and understandable response to the violence of the imperial system. — Noam Chomsky
Barron and Paul...rely on 'specialists' at the State and Defense Departments...Elsewhere in the media, similiar figures are bandied about, with equal credibility. — Noam Chomsky
You might recall, perhaps, that we were probably the only commentators to rely on the most knowledgeable source, State Department intelligence. — Noam Chomsky
How much blood makes a 'bloodbath'? — Mort Kondracke
Who is the descendant of the slavemasters a descendant of slaves to fight other people in thier own country? — Muhammad Ali
If in order to avoid further Communist expansion in Asia and particularly in Indo-China, if in order to avoid it we must take the risk… — Richard M. Nixon
Should I become President...I will not risk American lives...by permitting any other nation to drag us into the wrong war at the wrong place at… — John F. Kennedy
Once upon a time our traditional goal in war and can anyone doubt that we are at war? - was victory. Once upon a time… — Barry Goldwater
Numbers have dehumanized us. Over breakfast coffee we read of 40,000 American dead in Vietnam. Instead of vomiting, we reach for the toast. Our morning… — Dalton Trumbo
None of the people's wars of the sixties did very well, including the one in Vietnam. Vo Nguyen Giap himself has admitted a loss of… — Chalmers Johnson
It seems to me the worst possible concept, militarily, that we would simply stay there, resisting aggression, so-called...it seems to me that the way to… — Douglas MacArthur
The greatest contribution Vietnam is making-right or wrong is beside the point-is that it is developing an ability in the United States to fight a… — Robert McNamara
At my age, 85, I'm at age where I can look back and derive some conclusions about my actions. My rule has been try to… — Robert McNamara
If we'd lost the war, we'd all have been prosecuted as war criminals. And I think he's right. He, and I'd say I, were behaving… — Robert McNamara
Those of us who finally saw through the Vietnam war saw through this war, and all the actions that were necessary to end the Vietnam… — Daniel Ellsberg
Was the Vietnam conflict a war which should have, as a matter of constitutional law, required a declaration of war by Congress? — Arlen Specter

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