Vietnam Quotes - Page 21

• There is no question in my mind that we live in one of the truly bestial centuries in human history. There are plenty of signposts for the future historian, and what do they say? They say 'Auschwitz' and 'Dresden' and 'Hiroshima' and 'Vietnam' and 'Napalm.' For many years we all woke up to the daily body count on the radio. And if there were a way to kill people with the B Minor Mass, the Pentagon-Madison Avenue axis would have found it.

  Erwin Chargaff

  Death, Science, Axes

  Erwin Chargaff (1977). “Voices in the labyrinth: nature, man, and science”, Harper San Francisco

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• Back when the country was strong, back before Elvis and before the Vietnam war came along.

  Merle Haggard

  Country, Strong, War

  Merle Haggard (2002). “Merle Haggard: Poet of the Common Man : the Lyrics”, p.55, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• 'These boat people,' says the government of Hong Kong, 'they all want to go to America.' Well, I swear I don't know why, do you? I mean, take Vietnam. Why would any Vietnamese come to America after what American did to Vietnam? Don't they remember My Lai, napalm, Sylvester Stallone?

  Linda Ellerbee

  Mean, Government, America

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• [democrats] hated Richard Nixon, and no wonder. It was Nixon who sent Alger Hiss to jail, and Nixon who waged the Vietnam War after the Democrats gave up.

  David Frum

  War, Jail, Politics

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• Vietnam is the Liberals' favorite was because America lost

  Ann Coulter

  America, Lost

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• I was terrified of the Vietnam War when I was 13. I thought I was going. The draft was such an ominous thing, I felt as if it was going to trickle down to me.

  Dylan McDermott

  War, Ominous, Terrified

  "Dylan McDermott: Dylan Unplugged". Interview with Lawrence Grobel, movieline.com. September 1, 2000.

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• The people who were against the Vietnam War thought I was attacking the Army. The guys in the Army thought I was representing their experiences. I was on both sides, and I survived.

  Mort Walker

  War, Army, Two Sides

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• At least I'm at peace with myself. I have done my best to write a book about what really happened there and why it happened and it's done, it's published. I won't write another book on Vietnam.

  Neil Sheehan

  Peace, Book, Writing

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• Nixon did have a secret plan, and I knew that it involved making threats of nuclear war to North Vietnam.

  Daniel Ellsberg

  War, Ghouls, Secret

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• Millions also perished in the Chinese camps, and there have been terrible genocides in Cambodia and Vietnam.

  Jean-Marie Le Pen

  Chinese, Genocide, Terrible

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• Vietnam was worse than immoral - it was a mistake.

  Dean Acheson

  Mistake, Immoral

  "Letter from America, 1946-2004". Book by Alistair Cooke, 2004.

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• Two thousand people a day were being murdered in Vietnam in a terrorist war, an official terrorist war.

  Bill Ayers

  War, Two, People

  "Independent Lens" Interview, www.pbs.org.

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• I was largely drinking to forget where I was. When you’re in a place like Vietnam, you get to a point where you don’t care any more. You’re in a place that’s foreign to you, and you know for a fact that many people there hate you and will kill you if they get the chance. It really does something to your mind to know that many of the people living around you don’t like you and want you to die.

  Si Robertson

  Hate, Drinking, People

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• Hell no / I ain't going to go / Clean out my cell / And take my tail / To jail / Without bail / Because it's better there eating / Watching television fed / Than in Vietnam with your white folks dead.

  Muhammad Ali

  Cells, White, Jail

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• It would take 2,000 Vietnam Memorials to list the [Twentieth] century's war dead.

  Kim Stanley

  War, Memorial, Lists

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• I am shocked that we seemed to have learned nothing, absolutely nothing, from Vietnam.

  Michael Dirda

  Absolutely Nothing, Shocked

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I was caught up in the hysteria during the Vietnam era, which was brought about through Marxist propaganda underlying the so-called peace movement.

  Jon Voight

  Peace, Hysteria, Movement

  "VOIGHT: My concerns for America". www.washingtontimes.com. July 28, 2008.

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• You put your bombers in, you put your conscience out,You take the human being and you twist it all aboutSo scrub my skin with womenChain my tongue with whiskyStuff my nose with garlicCoat my eyes with butterFill my ears with silverStick my legs in plasterTell me lies about Vietnam.

  Adrian Mitchell

  Lying, Eye, Skins

  Adrian Mitchell (1968). “Out Loud”, Cape Goliard P.

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• Enough is enough. This is how we get started in Vietnam.

  Charles Rangel

  Enough, Enough Is Enough

  "Meet the Press", www.nbcnews.com. June 14, 2015.

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• I was too important to go to Vietnam.

  Mitt Romney

  Important

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• Think of what big governments have gotten up to in this century : not one, but two world wars, the gulag, the holocaust, aerial bombing of civilian population centers, the Berlin Wall, nuclear explosions, the post office. A wicked individual might want these, but he wouldn't have the cash and connections to get them. A villainous corporation could afford them but has to market the products. The Vietnam draft would be a tough sell for even the most fiendish businessmen. "Get shot! Get killed! Get diseases from foreign women who despise you in their hearts!"

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Wall, War, Heart

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• A first novel of astonishing force, craft and beauty, The Headmaster's Wager conjures up a dizzyingly evocative wartime Saigon in the story of Percival Chen, a Chinese schoolmaster in Vietnam. This extraordinary book made me weep. Read it.

  Janice Y. K. Lee

  Book, Chinese, Stories

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• A great read; an exciting, frightening account of organized crime today. But like all important works of nonfiction, it goes further… This book is must reading for anyone with an interest in the enduring effects of the Vietnam War, the subject of crime in our streets, and the issue of personal responsibility in a harsh, chaotic world.

  Le Ly Hayslip

  War, Reading, Book

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• Our resistance will be long and painful, but whatever the sacrifices, however long the struggle, we shall fight to the end, until Vietnam is fully independent and reunified.

  Ho Chi Minh

  War, Struggle, Independent

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• He's a novice, but he's had these - he's experienced in leadership in tight circumstances. He started - he dropped the first bomb, led the first air strike into North Vietnam.

  James Stockdale

  Leadership, Air, Bombs

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