Top 1102 Vietnam Quotes & Sayings - Page 7
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Last updated on November 16, 2024.
Vietnam's transformation - like that of so many nations - has been supported and even accelerated by an international, rules-based order dedicated to the progress of every nation.
I had lots of friends who were fighting in Vietnam and I am still friends with veterans of the war.
I am shocked that we seemed to have learned nothing, absolutely nothing, from Vietnam.
I took an interest in the Civil Rights Movement. I listened to Martin Luther King. The Vietnam War was raging. When I was 18, I was eligible for the draft, but when I went to be tested, I didn't qualify.
Like Vietnam, Afghanistan was never about troop levels; it is about how troops are utilized.
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.
The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it.
The U.S. never lost a battle against North Vietnam, but it lost the war.
Enough is enough. This is how we get started in Vietnam.
I'm not a pacifist. I was very much for the war against Hitler and I also supported the intervention in Korea, but in this war we went in there to steal Vietnam.
I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
I was just as crazy as everybody else post-Watergate, post-Vietnam.
The signs of the Vietnam War protestors said "Make Love not War!" It didn't seem to me that they were capable of either.
Unlike the Vietnam boat people or Cuban refugees after Castro came to power, the U.S. has no moral responsibility for the chaos in Syria. In fact, just the opposite is the case.
I was too young for Korea and too old for Vietnam.
We were sent to Vietnam to kill Communism. But we found instead that we were killing women and children.
We do not need more division. We certainly do not need something as complex and emotional as Vietnam reduced to simple campaign rhetoric.
The brave men who died in Vietnam, more than 100% of which were black, were the ultimate sacrifice.
Under Malcolm Fraser's Liberal governments in the 1970s, large numbers of refugees fleeing Vietnam in wretched boats were taken in without any great fuss.
When my dad was in Vietnam, we lost a parent for a year. Thank God we didn't lose a parent for good.
We have the grounds to be satisfied with the achievements obtained in the promotion of Vietnam-India ties in recent years, as well as to look forward to and believe in a stronger relationship in the future.
What America did in Vietnam and the Congo - we feel. And as a result come these demonstrations. I am not defending the act of burning USIS books. We deplore it. But we can understand the motives of the students.
My fascination with war is because my dad was in World War II, and my brother was in Vietnam.
I had a lot of fun in Cambodia, much more so in Cambodia than Vietnam.
World War II was just as dirty and brutal as Vietnam, just as confusing.
When I was building the Vietnam Memorial, I never once asked the veterans what it was like in the war, because from my point of view, you don't pry into other people's business.
Those who had demanded no more than an end to the bombing of North Vietnam and a commitment to negotiations saw their demands being realized, and lapsed into silence.
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.
In Vietnam, we took a hill and defeated the enemy; then we retreated and let the enemy take over.
When I visited Vietnam for Oxfam, the thing that really struck me was how the local farmers had to prepare to evacuate or climb to their mezzanines with their valuable family possessions.
My parents are both war veterans; they met in Vietnam. They were involved in a war that they absolutely disagreed with.
'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.
The men in Vietnam weren't allowed to fight the war with any kind of concern to win by the government. It was like a war of attrition.
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.
The Vietnam War soured President Johnson's legacy. We still have to recognize his domestic legacy.
My younger brother's death in Vietnam was both sobering and cause for reflection. In 'Fallen Angels' I wanted to dispel the notion of war as either romantic or simplistically heroic.
I'm a lad of the '60s. I started a magazine to try and end the Vietnam war, but it was a number of years before I had the profile, the financial resources and the time to do more.
I'm old and crazy, but I still give a damn. And I still think the boys got screwed over in Vietnam.
A lot of people have warned President Clinton that Bosnia will turn into another Vietnam, which would be embarrassing for him because he'll have to go back to college.
Was the Vietnam conflict a war which should have, as a matter of constitutional law, required a declaration of war by Congress?
We wait here to meet the Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam to discuss together a ceremony of orderly transfer of power so as to avoid any unnecessary bloodshed in the population.
The factory work that lifted millions out of poverty in places like China and Vietnam probably did cost some workers in North Carolina and Wallonia their jobs.
When I was growing up there, North Gulfport was referred to as 'Little Vietnam' because of the perception of crime and depravity within its borders - as if its denizens were simply a congregation of the downtrodden.
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.
Like in any relations between two countries in the world, Vietnam and the U.S. have differences on a number of issues such as perception on democracy, human rights and trade.
The Vietnam memorial is a masterpiece. The names of the dead are listed there, chronologically. Just the names.
It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations.
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.
Vietnam should have taught us that nationalism, with its engines of independence and self-determination, is a more powerful force by far than Marxism and must be understood and respected.
Military school was great and especially great for leadership and then I spent two years in Vietnam.
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.'
Vietnam is often called our only uncensored war, but that only means that the government wasn't vetting the pictures and words.
The Vietnam War was a great tragedy for our country. And it is now far enough away so that one can study without using the slogans to see what's really happened.
Uncle fought in Vietnam and then he fought a war all by himself.
The malaise and military decline of the post-Vietnam years under President Jimmy Carter set the stage for Russian aggression abroad and uncertainty among our allies.
When I volunteered for the draft as a 20-year-old, mischievous guy at the height of the Vietnam War, most thought I was destined to pass from this earth early!
With all the arguments and discussions about the Vietnam War, what did the visual image do? It ended the war.
The hardest thing for me in Vietnam wasn't seeing the wounded and dead. It was watching the big transport jets come in, bringing loads of fresh new boys for the war.
Being in Vietnam and being around a major story of the time was always a great shot of adrenaline.
Yippies, Hippies, Yahoos, Black Panthers, lions and tigers alike - I would swap the whole damn zoo for the kind of young Americans I saw in Vietnam.
