Absolutely nothing Quote by Michael Dirda

Vietnam was an exercise in mistaken idealism Iraq in cynical money-making. And there's no optimism or idealism now -- Americans are tired of knowledge.…

— Kurt Vonnegut

The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust our own government statements. I had no idea until then that you could…

— J William Fulbright

The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust [our own] government statements.

— J. William Fulbright

It's not right to say that our loss in Vietnam turned out to be a gain. But lessons were learned. And they were the…

— Tom Clancy

We have learned nothing.

— Pablo Picasso

I learned a lot from Vietnam veterans, especially as some of them turned against their own war.

— Robert Jay Lifton

The only important lesson from the Vietnam War is this: Democrats lose wars.

— Ann Coulter

Vietnam presumably taught us that the United States could not serve as the world's policeman; it should also have taught us the dangers of…

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

In the early stages of our involvement in Vietnam, basically I felt that our course was right. My concern grew with the concern of…

— Walter Cronkite

We have forgotten that Vietnam, and Iraq resent being invaded and know the ground better than we do.

— Wendell Berry

The Vietnam War was a great tragedy for our country. And it is now far enough away so that one can study without using…

— Henry Kissinger

Today, America can regain the sense of pride that existed before Vietnam. These events, tragic as they are, portend neither the end of the…

— Gerald R. Ford