Action Quote by Spiro T. Agnew

Yippies, Hippies, Yahoos, Black Panthers, lions and tigers alike - I would swap the whole damn zoo for the kind of young Americans I…

— Spiro T. Agnew

The transition after the Vietnam War to an all-volunteer force created the world's finest professional military. But it also reinforced geographic and cultural divisions…

— J. D. Vance

“From the experience of state militias during the American Revolution, to the Spanish-American War; from the legendary Merrill’s Marauders, the highly skilled and toughened…

— Tom Mangold

I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies.

— Benjamin Spock

The reason why many young people in the Vietnam War era were active was their lives were threatened by the draft and they were…

— Tom Morello

There was a generation of kids who were just kind of emulating distant heroes and wearing peace symbols, and parents who were thinking of…

— Wes Craven

I am of the Vietnam generation; therefore, I feel mistrustful of the military.

— John Densmore

“The roads that lead young men to war are not political roads, or national and international roads, but individual roads. What propels young men…

— James R. Mcdonough

I think most of us secretly know – and those of us at the radical middle are inclined to say – that without such…

— Mark Satin

I wouldn't characterize anybody who fought in Vietnam as a war hero. In 23 bombing sorties, there must have been civilians that were killed…

— Medea Benjamin

America owed its military renaissance in the 1980s and 1990s to Vietnam. Veterans like Norman Schwartzkopf, Colin Powell, Alfred Grey, Charles Krulak, and Wesley…

— Michael Ignatieff

“For these reasons the Vietnam-era army (unlike the armies that had fought in World War II or Korea) consisted disproportionately of the poor, minority…

— James T. Patterson