Vietnam Quotes

Too young for Korea, too old for Vietnam.

The Government finally decidedTo wage the war all-out. Defeat is Un-American. And they took to the a...

Why did this [Vietnam] war, so hard, so long, so ferocious, vanish from one day to the next as if by...

I learned long ago on the battlefields of Vietnam that in a crisis, there is no substitute for clear...

'Matterhorn' is my metaphor of the Vietnam War - we built it, we abandoned it, we assaulted it, we l...

Mellas continued to look at the wallet, saying nothing. Hawke, who had been watching Mellas through ...

Mellas was transported outside himself, beyond himself. It was as if his mind watched eveything cool...

He ran as he'd never run before, with neither hope nor despair. He ran because the world was divided...

Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire...

A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our p...

Well, good luck,’ the Vietnam verbal tic...It was as though people couldn’t stop themselves from say...

for years now there had been no country here but the war.

We took space back quickly, expensively, with total panic and close to maximum brutality. Our machin...

Some people think 1963's a long time ago; when a dead American in the jungle was an event, a grim th...

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

A lot of vets like 'Good Morning Vietnam' - I get great letters from guys.

There have been two popular subjects for poetry in the last few decades: the Vietnam War and AIDS, a...

In battle, in a war, a soldier sees only a tiny fragment of what is available to be seen. The soldie...

I would wish this book could take the form of a plea for everlasting peace, a plea from one who know...

I detested their blind, thoughtless, automatic acquiescence to it all, their simpleminded patriotism...

It was my view then, and still is, that you don't make war without knowing why. Knowledge of course,...

I'm skimming across the surface of my own history, moving fast, riding the melt beneath the blades, ...

I hated him for making me stop hating him

They used a hard vocabulary to contain the terrible softness. Greased they'd say. Offed, lit up, zap...

And it was darkSo dark at nightAnd we held on to each otherLike brother to brotherWe promised our mo...

If the thing they were fighting for was important enough to die for then it was also important enoug...