Defeat Quote by William Colby

We find the light only after total defeat of our attempts to deceive and outwit it.

— Vernon Howard

Upon the whole it was a Glorious day-Our men are in the Spirits-and I am confident we shall give them a total defeat the…

— Anthony Wayne

In high school I would use that total defeat that I felt in any type of mistake to go to the gym. That's what…

— Grayson Allen

[Madame Nhu was] the Sandra Dee of South Vietnam. If I were cast on a desert island with her, I would quickly make friends…

— Oscar Levant

With all my traveling around the world I would say that South Vietnam was not as corrupted as people want to talk about it…

— Bui Diem

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

None of the people's wars of the sixties did very well, including the one in Vietnam. Vo Nguyen Giap himself has admitted a loss…

— Chalmers Johnson

The politicians in Washington just had no idea about the complexity of the situation in South Vietnam.

— William Westmoreland

By the end of the summer of 1973 I thought it was virtually impossible for South Vietnam to survive. How in the heck could they?

— William Westmoreland

There's just no question that the United States was trying desperately to prevent the independence of South Vietnam and to prevent a political settlement…

— Noam Chomsky

For over ten years, bombs rained down on every village and hamlet in South Vietnam, and no one budged. It took the coming of…

— Vernon A. Walters

We could not bring democracy to South Vietnam at a cost that we were willing to accept. So it was a disaster. That' is…

— Noam Chomsky