Vietnam Quotes - Page 4

• All the wrong people remember Vietnam. I think all the people who remember it should forget it, and all the people who forgot it should remember it.

  Michael Herr

  Military, Thinking, People

  1989 In the Observer, 15 Jan.

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• Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place.

  John F. Kennedy

  Vietnam War, Problem, Credible

  1961 Attributed remark to journalist James Reston, following Kennedy's meeting with Khrushchev, Jun.

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• 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

  Inspirational, Motivational, Military

  Quoted in Montreal Gazette, 16 May 1975

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• Let us understand: North Vietnam cannot defeat or humiliate the United States. Only Americans can do that.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Military, United States, Defeat

  Address to the Nation on theWar in Vietnam, 3 Nov. 1969

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• If the Americans do not want to support us anymore, let them go, get out! Let them forget their humanitarian promises!

  Nguyen Van Thieu

  War, Support, Promise

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• Within the soul of each Vietnam veteran there is probably something that says "Bad war, good soldier." Only now are Americans beginning to separate the war from the warrior.

  Max Cleland

  War, Soul, Soldier

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• Heroes? Vietnam Vets are heroes. The guys who tried to rescuse our hostages in Iran are heroes. I'm just a hockey player.

  Mike Eruzione

  Hero, Hockey, Player

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• One of the sharp parallels is that neither Vietnam nor Iraq was the slightest threat to America's national security.

  George McGovern

  Iraq, America, National Security

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• So much of my work involved the Vietnam War that it would have been obscene to show it in a gallery. But now, it’s different; it’s important to remember and to enable the young to discover what to some of us is still so present.

  Martha Rosler

  War, Important, Different

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• I confess. If the law had been appiled to me properly for what I did in Vietnam, I'd have been convicted for high treason.

  Jane Fonda

  Law, Treason, Has Beens

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• I think most of us secretly know – and those of us at the radical middle are inclined to say – that without such concepts as duty and honor and service, no civilization can endure. ... I suspect most Americans would respond positively to a [draft] if it gives us some choice in how to exercise that duty and service. ... Exactly the kind of choice my generation did not have during the Vietnam War.

  Mark Satin

  War, Exercise, Thinking

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• Was the Vietnam conflict a war which should have, as a matter of constitutional law, required a declaration of war by Congress?

  Arlen Specter

  War, Should Have, Law

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• If John Kerry had a dollar for every time he bragged about serving in Vietnam - oh wait, he does.

  Ann Coulter

  Waiting, Doe, Dollars

  Ann Coulter (2007). “If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans”, p.147, Crown Forum

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• Everybody respects the Vietnam Veterans of America.

  R. Lee Ermey

  America, Veteran, Vietnam Veteran

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Back in the old Corp, we weren't training those privates to infiltrate into the peacetime Marine Corp. We were training those privates to go to Vietnam.

  R. Lee Ermey

  Marine, Training, Marine Life

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 'Dare to Discipline' was published in 1970 in the midst of the Vietnam War and a culture of rebellion. The book was written in that context, but the principles of child rearing have not changed.

  James Dobson

  Children, War, Book

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• My father had gone to Vietnam.

  Elizabeth Edwards

  Father, Gone

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• There are two types of courage involved with what I did. When it comes to picking up a rifle, millions of people are capable of doing that, as we see in Iraq or Vietnam. But when it comes to risking their careers, or risking being invited to lunch by the establishment, it turns out that's remarkably rare.

  Daniel Ellsberg

  Hero, Careers, Two

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• One of the good things about the way the Gulf War ended in 1991 is, you'd see the Vietnam veterans marching with the Gulf War veterans.

  George H. W. Bush

  War, Marching On, Our Veterans

  "Don Imus interviews former President George H.W. Bush". Interview with Don Imus, www.chron.com. September 1, 2004.

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• If I had that kind of money, I wouldn't come to Vietnam, I'd send for it.

  Bob Hope

  One Line, Kind, Ifs

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• We understand that Nixon's aggression against Vietnam is a racist aggression, that the American war in Vietnam is a racist war, a white man's war...We deplore that you are being used as cannon fodder for U.S. imperialism. We've seen photographs of American bombs and antipersonnel weapons being dropped, wantonly, accidentally perhaps, on your heads, on the heads of your comrades.

  Jane Fonda

  War, Men, White Man

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• I felt just overwhelmed by input: the Vietnam War and the collapse of the '60s and the proliferation of media' it just felt like everything was too much to handle and you just tuned out.

  Richard Hell

  War, Media, Input

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• 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

  Book, College, Awards

  "Dave Eggers: From 'staggering genius' to America's conscience". Interview with Hermione Hoby, www.theguardian.com. March 6, 2010.

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• I used to love going into local hardware stores, to look at little things they made locally. Nowadays it's harder, though you can still do it in Vietnam.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Looks, Littles, Little Things

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• Those of us who finally saw through the Vietnam war saw through this war, and all the actions that were necessary to end the Vietnam war will be necessary here. I think the American people will get us out of this war.

  Daniel Ellsberg

  War, Thinking, People

  "War Protesters Arrested Near Bush Ranch", www.foxnews.com. November 23, 2005.

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