Vietnam war Quote by Nick Mills

A great read; an exciting, frightening account of organized crime today. But like all important works of nonfiction, it goes further… This book is…

— Le Ly Hayslip

“In all, the future secretary of defense and wartime vice president[, Dick Cheney,] would receive five deferments during the Vietnam War, protecting him from…

— Charlie Savage

I'm not going to say I was opposed to the Vietnam War. I'm going to say I'm opposed to war. But I'm also opposed…

— John Wooden

Many of us, whether in the jungles of Asia or on the streets of Chicago, had discovered that noble causes can lead to ignoble…

— Linda Grant

With respect to where we are now, we have a voluntary army. And if we ever go back to conscription I hope that at…

— Colin Powell

Being a correspondent at the Vietnam war for me was about exposing myself to danger but it wasn't completely self-serving. I felt that there…

— Philip Caputo

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

[General Curtis] LeMay recognized that what he was doing would be thought immoral if his side has lost. But what makes it immoral if…

— Robert McNamara

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

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

— David Cross

“Stories are for eternity, when memory is erased, when there is nothing to remember except the story.”

— Tim O'Brien

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