Vietnam Quotes

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.

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

As the senior commander in Vietnam, I was aware of the potency of public opinion - and I worried about it.

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

The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.

America does not like losers. Look how we treated those soldiers who came back from Vietnam. Because they lost. America likes winners.

The lessons I learned in Vietnam and in the NFL reinforced one another: teamwork, sacrifice, responsibility, accountability, and leadership.

I'm very moved to be here today, ... Our lives are now much better, but Vietnam remains a very poor country. We need to work much harder.

'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.

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.

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

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

In a way I almost feel like the election of Donald Trump has inspired Democrats and progressives and punk rockers in a way that hasn't been seen since Vietnam.

The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust [our own] government statements.

When I took command in Vietnam, I gave great emphasis to food and medical care - and to the mail

The Vietnam memorial is a masterpiece. The names of the dead are listed there, chronologically. Just the names.

The crusades of Vietnam and Watergate seemed like a good idea at the time, even a noble one, not only to the press but perhaps to a majority of Americans.

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

I formed the hypothesis that each of us could have achieved our objectives without the terrible loss of life. And I wanted to test that by going to Vietnam.

I'm old and crazy, but I still give a damn. And I still think the boys got screwed over in Vietnam.

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

Vietnam, really more accurately, Laos, was almost after Berlin the top problem at the beginning of the Kennedy Administration in '61, foreign problem.

There is one hell of a difference between fighting in the ring and going to war in Vietnam.

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.

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.

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

I'm working on this fashion line that's all inspired by Vietnam. I'm Vietnamese so a lot of the clothes are inspired by Vietnamese culture, and I'm trying to mix that with the streetwear style.

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

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

In Vietnam we have no political prisoners. No one is arrested or jailed for his or her speech or point of view. They are put in jail because they violated the law.

You have a row of dominoes set up; you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is that it will go over very quickly.

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

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

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.

Vietnam is unique of all the countries in the world, I believe, in having the longest continuous struggle against foreign aggression of any country that has retained its national identity.

Vietnam helped me realize who the true heroes really are in this world. It's not the home-run hitters.

Prior art is as effective as US soldiers in Iraq: They control the ground they stand on, and nothing more. I used to say Vietnam, but, well, you know.

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

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.

So one important lesson of Vietnam is, the first casualty of an unwise and unjust war are the American troops called on to fight it. Their service should be honored.

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

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

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

Vietnam was as much a laboratory experiment as a war.

I saw a large, red dried swath that I immediately identified clearly as blood. I covered the war in Vietnam. I saw a lot of it [blood] there.

To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.

Obama avoided the Vietnam draft with a letter from his family doctor diagnosing him as medically eight.

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.

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.

These men were wrongfully rejected, the veterans. The fighting man should never have been blamed for Vietnam.