Vietnam Quotes
We seem bent upon saving the Vietnamese from Ho Chi Minh, even if we have to kill them and demolish their country to do it....I do not intend to remain silent in the face of what I regard as a policy of madness which, sooner or later, will envelop my son and American youth by the millions for years to come.
Walt W. Rostow
The war against Vietnam is only the ghastliest manifestation of what I'd call imperial provincialism, which afflicts America's whole culture - aware only of its own history, insensible to everything which isn't part of the local atmosphere.
Richard M. Nixon
This war has already stretched the generation gap so wide that it threatens to pull the country apart.
Dalton Trumbo
Today, America can regain the sense of pride that existed before Vietnam. These events, tragic as they are, portend neither the end of the world nor of America's leadership in the world.
Marshall McLuhan
Vietnam was what we had instead of happy childhoods.
Henry Kissinger
Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place.
John F. Kennedy
Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America--not on the battlefields of Vietnam.
Marshall McLuhan
Any of these Vietnam vets that have been there and know the deal, they don't feel that any Hollywood endeavor about the Vietnam era has ever gotten it right yet.
Sam Elliott
By the mid-sixties, the United States had poured more than half a million troops into South Vietnam.
Nguyen Cao Ky
I saw courage both in the Vietnam War and in the struggle to stop it. I learned that patriotism includes protest, not just military service.
John F. Kerry
It seems to me the American people never really forgave the Democrats for being right about Vietnam.
Paul Begala
The draft is white people sending black people to fight yellow people to protect the country they stole from the red people.
Gerome Ragni
The war in vietnam threatened to tear our society apart, and the political and philosophical disagreements that separated each side continue, to some extent. It's been said that these memorials reflect a hunger for healing.
Ronald Reagan
The vietnam war required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. ... What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it.
Henry Kissinger
