Best Vietnam War Quotations
129 Vietnam War quotes by 105 unique authors
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The events that followed our withdrawal from Vietnam, including the plight of the boat people and the more than 1 million slaughtered by the new…
— Richard M. Nixon
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Yes, I wish I'd done it sooner.
— Richard M. Nixon
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I want to be sure...that nothing is done on these veterans. Is that understood?...Is the word out? That they are not to touch em, they…
— Richard M. Nixon
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We still seek no wider war.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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Our objective in South Vietnam has never been the annihilation of the enemy. It has been to bring about a recognition in Hanoi that its…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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Having gone through the civil rights struggle, having gone through the anti-Vietnam War struggle, by the time I was in my 20s, I had something…
— Paul Solman
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There have been two popular subjects for poetry in the last few decades: the Vietnam War and AIDS, about both of which almost all of…
— Thom Gunn
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I couldn't be happier that President Bush has stood up for having served in the National Guard, because I can finally put an end to…
— Larry David
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'Dare to Discipline' was published in 1970 in the midst of the Vietnam War and a culture of rebellion. The book was written in that…
— James Dobson
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You have a row of dominoes set up; you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is that it…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Senator Albert Gore Sr. was one of the first outspoken critics of the Vietnam War.
— Peter Jennings
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We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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Our numbers have increased in Vietnam because the aggression of others has increased in Vietnam. There is not, and there will not be, a mindless…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place.
— John F. Kennedy
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I saw courage both in the Vietnam War and in the struggle to stop it. I learned that patriotism includes protest, not just military service.
— John F. Kerry
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The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And…
— Henry A. Kissinger
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When I grew up, in Taiwan, the Korean War was seen as a good war, where America protected Asia. It was sort of an extension…
— Ang Lee
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I deliberately did not read anything about the Vietnam War because I felt the politics of the war eclipsed what happened to the veterans. The…
— Maya Lin
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I thought the Vietnam war was an utter, unmitigated disaster, so it was very hard for me to say anything good about it.
— George McGovern
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I was the guy who was constantly speaking out against the Vietnam War. I have no regrets about that.
— George McGovern
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The truth is that I oppose the Iraq war, just as I opposed the Vietnam War, because these two conflicts have weakened the U.S. and…
— George McGovern
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Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not on…
— Marshall McLuhan
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We managed to put together a compilation that had some creativity to it. In the meantime I was listening to the free radio stations and…
— Joni Mitchell
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When the women's liberation movement began, when people began protesting against the Vietnam War, civil rights movement, at the beginning of those movements, the majority…
— Michael Moore
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