Communism Quote by Shelby Steele

Vietnam was a country where America was trying to make people stop being communists by dropping things on them from airplanes.

— Kurt Vonnegut

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

“The Art of War articulates a doctrine less of territorial conquest than of psychological dominance; it was the way the North Vietnamese fought America”

— Henry Kissinger

We South Vietnamese, we are very concerned about the ah, the fact that the communists are - were very shrewd in trying to take…

— Bui Diem

The Vietnamese see their history as an unending series of struggles of resistance to aggression, by the Chinese, the Mongols, the Japanese, the French,…

— Noam Chomsky

“For more than a decade, the United States had been giving large-scale military aid to the French colonialists, and then to the American-installed but…

— Edward S. Greenberg

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

I think we fought Vietnam for the benefits of civilization, and certainly we fought it to oppose authority. To show our authority, to show…

— Stephen King

What some people argue is that Vietnam stands for the proposition that there's no role for American power anywhere on earth. I don't believe…

— Walter F. Mondale

The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one…

— Ho Chi Minh

Vietnam is unique of all the countries in the world, I believe, in having the longest continuous struggle against foreign aggression of any country…

— Tom Hayden

“From the perspective of nearly half a century, the Battle of Hue and the entire Vietnam War seem a tragic and meaningless waste. So…

— Mark Bowden