The Vietnam War Quotes

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Matterhorn is my metaphor of the Vietnam War - we built it, we abandoned it, we assaulted it, we lost, and then we abandoned it again.

Helvetica is the font of the Vietnam War.

Better still - your history has shown how powerful a moral catharsis expressed through popular resistance to injustice can sometimes be; I have in mind the grassroots opposition to the Vietnam War.

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

Mr. President, I love you, but you're wrong. (To Richard Nixon, on the Vietnam War)

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

By the year 2025, 500 million people will die of smoking. Now, that's a Vietnam War every day for 27 years. That's the Titanic sinking every 27 minutes for 27 years.

My parents demonstrated against the Vietnam war, they were into the civil rights movement, the feminist movement, they started the first vegetarian restaurant in Pittsburgh.

With all the arguments and discussions about the Vietnam War, what did the visual image do? It ended the war.

Social justice has always been a part of my inspiration. For example, when the Vietnam War was going on, I wrote a song about that.

The truth is that I oppose the Iraq war, just as I opposed the Vietnam War, because these two conflicts have weakened the U.S. and diminished our standing in the world and our national security.

What makes it immoral if you lose and not immoral if you win?

'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.

The brave men who died in Vietnam, more than 100% of which were black, were the ultimate sacrifice.

I got my head bashed in at a demonstration against the Vietnam War. Police were losing control because they were up against a world they really didn't understand.

Being stubborn won't make you fluent. Practicing will! The more mistakes you make, the more you'll learn not to.

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.

My opposition to the Vietnam War. I was the first Hollywood actor to speak out against it.

I was not able to stop or slow down the Vietnam War.

Hollywood never knew there was a Vietnam War until they made the movie.

In revealing the workings of government that led to the Vietnam War, the newspapers nobly did precisely that which the Founders hoped and trusted they would do.

I predict you will sink step by step into a bottomless quagmire, however much you spend in men and money." (On Vietnam War)

If John McCain were really a war hero he would've won Vietnam.

In World War One, they called it shell shock. Second time around, they called it battle fatigue. After 'Nam, it was post-traumatic stress disorder.

Because our homeland and very survival are once more at stake, the American people can't afford to treat this new war against terrorism like they did Vietnam.

The true lesson of the Vietnam War is: certainty of purpose and ruthlessness of execution win wars.

Vietnam was as much a laboratory experiment as a war.

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

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.

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.

I deliberately did not read anything about the Vietnam War because I felt the politics of the war eclipsed what happened to the veterans. The politics were irrelevant to what this memorial was.

The boys that were running away from America because they didn't want to get involved with the Vietnam War had come to me. They would tell me how they felt.

We had the Vietnam War in the '60s, and there was a draft. The students didn't believe in it, and it unified them.

In April 1975 I was born and the Vietnam War ended. I could not let any American die in war before seeing an episode of Scrubs.

It became necessary to destroy the town to save it.

In 2003, Congress authorized the construction of a visitor center for the Vietnam Memorial to help provide information and educate the public about the memorial and the Vietnam War.

The day that the Soviets officially crossed the border of Afghanistan, I wrote to President Jimmy Carter: We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war.

We still seek no wider war.

Many of the architects of the Vietnam War became near pariahs as they spent the remainder of their lives in the futile quest to explain away their decisions at the time.

The Vietnam war was fought over portion size.

During the Vietnam War, Abbie Hoffman announced that the new high was banana peels taken rectally. So then FBI scientists stuffed banana peels up their asses to find out if this was true or not.

And in this moment, I realize one reason it's so great to have a best friend is sometimes, like right now, Cal and I are thinking the very same thing.

A president who is burdened with a failed and unpopular war, and who has lost the trust of the country, simply can no longer govern. He is destined to become as much a failure as his war.

Vietnam was a country where America was trying to make people stop being communists by dropping things on them from airplanes.

Senator Albert Gore Sr. was one of the first outspoken critics of the Vietnam War.

My view of Bradley Manning is that he's a very courageous young man who... did what I didn't have the guts to do during the Vietnam war.

I didn't like anti-Vietnam War art. I didn't like feminist art. I thought it was heavy-handed and stupid - as art.

The World War II generation believed the United States could do anything - anything... And Vietnam was a shattering experience for everyone.

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

Those days [of the Vietnam War] you couldn't get on a bus going to the South without expecting a riot over something or the other. All of that has disappeared thanks to Lyndon Johnson.