Annihilation Quote by Lyndon B. Johnson

To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.

— Benjamin Spock

Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases,…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

South Vietnam faces total defeat, and soon.

— William Colby

In our fervor to halt the potential spread of totalitarianism, what incredible precedent are we setting in Vietnam? By marching our legions through the…

— Robert Vaughn

It is a damned sight easier to start wars than to end them. This truth has been stated for as long and as often…

— Malcolm Forbes

There's just no question that the United States was trying desperately to prevent the independence of South Vietnam and to prevent a political settlement…

— Noam Chomsky

We are trying to remake Vietnamese society, a task which certainly cannot be accomplished by force and which probably cannot be accomplished by any…

— J. William Fulbright

This war in Vietnam is, I believe, a war for civilization. Certainly it is not a war of our seeking. It is a war…

— Francis Spellman

The Communist leaders in Moscow, Peking and Hanoi must fully understand that the United States considers the freedom of South Viet Nam vital to…

— Gerald R. Ford

The United States can certainly defeat North Vietnam, but the United States cannot defeat a guerrilla war which is being raged from a sanctuary…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

We do this in order to slow down aggression. We do this to increase the confidence of the brave people of South Vietnam who…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

The important point was that whatever errors America had made [in Vietnam] "we are so powerful [according to Secretary Kissinger] that Hanoi is simply…

— William Shawcross