VIET NAM QUOTES

You can kill ten of my men for every one I kill of yours, but even at those odds, you will lose and I will win.

Should I become President...I will not risk American lives...by permitting any other nation to drag us into the wrong war at the wrong place at the wrong time through an unwise commitment that is unwise militarily, unnecessary to our security and unsupported by our allies.

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.

We are not about to send American boys nine or ten thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.

Tell the Vietnamese they've got to draw in their horns or we're going to bomb them back into the Stone Age.

If the Americans do not want to support us anymore, let them go, get out! Let them forget their humanitarian promises!

I hate those men who would send into war youth to fight and die for them; the pride and cowardice of those old men, making their wars that boys must die.

The chain reaction of evil--wars producing more wars -- must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.

Let us understand: North Vietnam cannot defeat or humiliate the United States. Only Americans can do that.

I'm not going to be the first American president to lose a war

I guess every generation is doomed to fight its war...suffer the loss of the same old illusions, and learn the same old lessons on its own.

We should declare war on North Vietnam. . . .We could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it, and still be home by Christmas.

Let us understand: North Vietnam cannot defeat or humiliate the United States. Only Americans can do that.

We believe that peace is at hand.

This war has already stretched the generation gap so wide that it threatens to pull the country apart.

I see battlefields that are under 24-hour real or near-real time surveillance of all types. I see battlefields on which we can destroy anything we can locate through instant communications and almost instantaneous application of highly lethal firepower.

I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.

Above all, Vietnam was a war that asked everything of a few and nothing of most in America.

"After a war, a hero is just a man with one leg."

Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official...

War doesn't make boys men, it makes men dead.

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty."

Fight the rich, not their wars!"

It is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else.

War creates peace like hate creates love.

"It doesn't help you win the hearts and minds of the public if you put a bullet in their hearts and another in the minds"

I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.

Our objective in South Vietnam has never been the annihilation of the enemy. It has been to bring about a recognition in Hanoi that its objective

No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.

We seem bent upon saving the Vietnamese from Ho Chi Minh, even if we have to kill them and demolish their country to do it....I do not intend to remain silent in the face of what I regard as a policy of madness which, sooner or later, will envelop my son and American youth by the millions for years to come.

"It’s not that we war militarily. The fact is, we as a nation did not make good our commitment to the South Vietnamese."

Vietnam was what we had instead of happy childhoods.