America Quote by Myra MacPherson

One of the lessons learned during the Vietnam War was that the depiction of wounded soldiers, of coffins stacked higher than their living guards,…

— Walter Dean Myers

President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave their brothers in the South alone.

— William Westmoreland

John F. Kennedy asked us what we could do for America. This Democratic Party asks what can government give you. Don't worry about paying…

— Artur Davis

I was in Boots buying contact lens solution, and my mobile went off. It was Jay-Z's partner at Roc Nation asking me what I…

— Rita Ora

I say to first time filmmakers that when they're asked, they should go to America as you're far more likely to get a chance.

— Danny Boyle

“The town could not talk, and would not listen. "How'd you like to hear about the war?" he might have asked, but the place…

— Tim O'Brien

“Well, why are you going to the war?” asked Pierre. “What for? I don’t know. I must. Besides that I am going…” He paused.…

— Leo Tolstoy

People are worried about if somebody's going to say that I'm Islamophobic or what have you. This is craziness because we are at war.…

— Benjamin Carson

“What is war?' I asked. Oh, it's a messy, stupid business,' he said, 'Two sides wave flags and beat drums and shoot one another…

— Hugh Lofting

I remember being a kid and the Vietnam War was huge and looking at Watergate.

— David Cross

In the sixties, during the Vietnam war, when anarchists and pacifists and socialists, Democrats and Republicans, decent-hearted Americans, all recoiled with horror at the…

— Pete Seeger

When it came to political power, blacks need not apply. Add to this steaming stew the growing tensions over the Vietnam War and the…

— Andrea Mitchell