Countryside Quote by 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

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

— Benjamin Spock

We could not bring democracy and freedom to Vietnam at a cost acceptable to ourselves. The idea that that was what we were trying…

— Noam Chomsky

Our objective in South Vietnam has never been the annihilation of the enemy. It has been to bring about a recognition in Hanoi that…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

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

Our numbers have increased in Vietnam because the aggression of others has increased in Vietnam. There is not, and there will not be, a…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Vietnam was really an idealistic thing to stop the spread of communism, which, incidentally, it did. It was a pretty costly way to do…

— Tom Wolfe

I believe that the United States has no possible ability to pacify the Vietnamese people, win support for Thieu, win a political victory or…

— David Dellinger

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

Exterminate the 50 million Vietnamese and purify the masses of the [Cambodian] people.

— Pol Pot

Let us put an end to self-inflicted wounds. Let us remember that our national unity is a most priceless asset. Let us deny our…

— Gerald R. Ford

Our resistance will be long and painful, but whatever the sacrifices, however long the struggle, we shall fight to the end, until Vietnam is…

— Ho Chi Minh