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Vietnam War32 quotes

I ain’t got no quarrel with those Vietcong. — Muhammad Ali · 1967 If he had lost Walter Cronkite he had lost Mr. Average Citizen. — Lyndon B. Johnson · 1968 I love the smell of napalm in the morning. — Bill Killgore · 1979 It seems now more certain than ever that the bloody experience of Vietnam is to end in a stalemate. — Walter Cronkite · 1968 In this war, things get confused out there. Power, ideals, the old morality, practical military necessity. But out there with these natives, it must be a temptation to be God. 'Cause there's a conflict in every human heart, between the rational and the irrational, between good and evil, and good does not always triumph. Sometimes, the dark side overcomes what Lincoln called the better angels of our nature. Every man has got a breaking point. You and I have one. Walt Kurtz has reached his and very obviously, he has gone insane. — General R. Corman · 1979 There was a famous story, some reporters asked a door gunner, "How can you shoot women and children?" and he'd answered, "It's easy, you just don't lead 'em so much." — Michael Herr · 1977 All 32 quotes →

American politics6 quotes

If he had lost Walter Cronkite he had lost Mr. Average Citizen. — Lyndon B. Johnson · 1968 It seems now more certain than ever that the bloody experience of Vietnam is to end in a stalemate. — Walter Cronkite · 1968 North Vietnam cannot defeat or humiliate the United States. Only Americans can do that. — Richard Nixon · 1969 We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10,000 miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves. — Lyndon B. Johnson · 1964 The United States could well declare unilaterally that this stage of the Vietnam war is over-that we have "won" in the sense that our Armed Forces are in control of most of the field and no potential enemy is in a position to establish its authority over South Vietnam. — George Aiken · 1966 Let historians not record that when America was the most powerful nation in the world we passed on the other side of the road and allowed the last hopes for peace and freedom of millions of people to be suffocated by the forces of totalitarianism. And so tonight—to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans—I ask for your support. — Richard Nixon · 1969

War6 quotes

I love the smell of napalm in the morning. — Bill Killgore · 1979 I think now, looking back, we did not fight the enemy; we fought ourselves. And the enemy...was in us. — Chris · 1986 North Vietnam cannot defeat or humiliate the United States. Only Americans can do that. — Richard Nixon · 1969 To say that we are closer to victory today is to believe in the face of the evidence the optimists who have been wrong in the past. To suggest we are on the edge of defeat is to yield to unreasonable pessimism. To say that we are mired in stalemate seems the only realistic, if unsatisfactory, conclusion. — Walter Cronkite · 1968 Some of you think you have problems because you're against the war. You demonstrated in school, you wear peace symbols on your steel, and you have attitudes. I'm an orphan, my brother's queer, the city of Chicago got the clap from my sister, Mom drinks, Dad coughs blood, I have ringworm, immersion foot, the incurable crud and the draft ruined my chances of being a brain surgeon. People, you have no problem. Except me and him. — Sgt. Adam Frantz · 1987 On guard at night you'll write letters, play with your organ, and think of your girl back home. Forget her. Some hair head has her on her back right now and is telling her to fuck for peace. — Sgt. Adam Frantz · 1987

Media3 quotes

If he had lost Walter Cronkite he had lost Mr. Average Citizen. — Lyndon B. Johnson · 1968 It seems now more certain than ever that the bloody experience of Vietnam is to end in a stalemate. — Walter Cronkite · 1968 Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America—not the battlefields of Vietnam. — Marshall McLuhan · 1975

America and the world1 quote

If, when the chips are down, the world's most powerful nation...acts like a pitiful, helpless giant, the forces of totalitarianism and anarchy will threaten free nations and free institutions throughout the world. — Richard Nixon · 1970

Anti-war1 quote

Father, father We don't need to escalate You see, war is not the answer For only love can conquer hate. — Marvin Gaye · 1971

Censorship1 quote

Vietnam was the first war ever fought without any censorship. Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind. — William C. Westmoreland · 1982

Cold War1 quote

Let historians not record that when America was the most powerful nation in the world we passed on the other side of the road and allowed the last hopes for peace and freedom of millions of people to be suffocated by the forces of totalitarianism. And so tonight—to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans—I ask for your support. — Richard Nixon · 1969

Good and evil1 quote

In this war, things get confused out there. Power, ideals, the old morality, practical military necessity. But out there with these natives, it must be a temptation to be God. 'Cause there's a conflict in every human heart, between the rational and the irrational, between good and evil, and good does not always triumph. Sometimes, the dark side overcomes what Lincoln called the better angels of our nature. Every man has got a breaking point. You and I have one. Walt Kurtz has reached his and very obviously, he has gone insane. — General R. Corman · 1979

Great Society1 quote

The Great Society lost its greatness in the jungles of Indochina. — George McGovern · 1973

Hell1 quote

Somebody once wrote: "Hell is the impossibility of reason." That's what this place feels like. Hell. — Chris · 1986

Human nature1 quote

In this war, things get confused out there. Power, ideals, the old morality, practical military necessity. But out there with these natives, it must be a temptation to be God. 'Cause there's a conflict in every human heart, between the rational and the irrational, between good and evil, and good does not always triumph. Sometimes, the dark side overcomes what Lincoln called the better angels of our nature. Every man has got a breaking point. You and I have one. Walt Kurtz has reached his and very obviously, he has gone insane. — General R. Corman · 1979

Napalm1 quote

I love the smell of napalm in the morning. — Bill Killgore · 1979

Nature of hell1 quote

Somebody once wrote: "Hell is the impossibility of reason." That's what this place feels like. Hell. — Chris · 1986

Politics1 quote

Let historians not record that when America was the most powerful nation in the world we passed on the other side of the road and allowed the last hopes for peace and freedom of millions of people to be suffocated by the forces of totalitarianism. And so tonight—to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans—I ask for your support. — Richard Nixon · 1969

Preemptive war1 quote

I believe that history will record that we have made a great mistake. — Wayne Lyman Morse · 1964

Rain1 quote

One day it started raining, and it didn’t quit for four months. We been through every kind of rain there is. Little bitty stingin’ rain…and big ol’ fat rain. Rain that flew in sideways and sometimes rain even seemed to come straight up from underneath. Shoot, it even rained at night. — Forrest Gump · 1994

Soldiers1 quote

They come from the end of the line, most of 'em—small towns you never heard of: Pulaski, Tennessee; Brandon, Mississippi; Pork Bend, Utah; Wampum, Pennsylvania. Two years' high school's about it. Maybe if they're lucky, a job waiting for them back in a factory. But most of 'em got nothing. They're poor. They're the unwanted. Yet they're fighting for our society and our freedom. It's weird, isn't it? At the bottom of the barrel, they know it. Maybe that's why they call themselves "grunts", 'cause a grunt can take it—can take anything. — Chris · 1986

The 60s1 quote

Out on the street I couldn't tell the Vietnam veterans from the rock and roll veterans. The Sixties had made so many casualties, its war and its music had run power off the same circuit for so long they didn't even have to fuse. — Michael Herr · 1977

Vietnam1 quote

One day it started raining, and it didn’t quit for four months. We been through every kind of rain there is. Little bitty stingin’ rain…and big ol’ fat rain. Rain that flew in sideways and sometimes rain even seemed to come straight up from underneath. Shoot, it even rained at night. — Forrest Gump · 1994

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