Vietnam Quotes

Tim O'Brien's book about Vietnam, 'The Things They Carried', has won every award, is studied in college and is considered to be definitive. But it's fiction.

Dave Eggers

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In the early stages of our involvement in Vietnam, basically I felt that our course was right. My concern grew with the concern of the American people.

Walter Cronkite

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I can remember as a young lieutenant being sent into the DMZ in the divided Vietnam, from North Vietnam.

Oliver North

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I have a band that I started with a buddy of mine, a Vietnam veteran pal named Kimo Williams from Chicago.

Gary Sinise

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The U.S. never lost a battle against North Vietnam, but it lost the war.

John McCain

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In Vietnam, we took a hill and defeated the enemy; then we retreated and let the enemy take over.

Jeff Duncan

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If the Mets can win the World Series, the United States can get out of Vietnam.

Tom Seaver

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I served two tours of duty in Vietnam. I won the Bronze Star. I won the Purple Heart.

Ron Kovic

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Lyndon Johnson may have escalated the war, but when I was drafted and shipped off to Vietnam, the signature on my orders was Nixon's.

Bob Gunton

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A key to McMaster's thinking is his 1997 book, 'Dereliction of Duty: Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Lies that Led to Vietnam.'

Peter Bergen

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In 1961, the United States began chemical warfare in Vietnam, South Vietnam, chemical warfare to destroy crops and livestock. That went on for seven years. The level of poison - they used the most extreme carcinogen known: dioxin. And this went on for years.

Noam Chomsky

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The impact of the Vietnam War on TV made everyone recognize the importance of visual media.

Mark Kurlansky

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I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam.

Lyndon B. Johnson

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I have been to several wars to draw. I went to Vietnam. And made drawings in Vietnam during that period of the war there, and found that to be a very very sad situation.

Gerald Scarfe

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We should bomb Vietnam back into the stone age.

Curtis LeMay

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There have been two popular subjects for poetry in the last few decades: the Vietnam War and AIDS, about both of which almost all of us have felt deeply.

Thom Gunn

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I was a conscientious objector during the Vietnam War.

Lawrence Wright

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I'm from the Vietnam generation. I didn't serve.

Al Franken

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I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.

Sammy Davis, Jr.

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My mind-set is Munich. Most of my generation's is Vietnam.

Madeleine Albright

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Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.

Fidel Castro

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I learned a lot from Vietnam veterans, especially as some of them turned against their own war.

Robert Jay Lifton

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War is war. Vietnam is no different from the Crusades.

Michael Cimino

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Fonda was neither wrong nor unconscionable in what she said and did in North Vietnam.

Tom Hayden

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