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Vietnam Quotes
Quotes about the Vietnam war by famous people of the time period.
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| "You can kill 10 of my men for every one I kill of yours, even at those odds, you will lose and I will win." (1940's) |  |
| "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."(1954) |  |
| "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."(October 1964) | Lyndon Johnson,  |
| 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." (1965) | Ronald Reagan,  |
| Im not going to be the first American president to lose a war." (1969) | Richard Nixon,  |
| "Today, America can regain the sense of pride that existed before Vietnam. These events, tragic as they are, portend neither the end of the world nor of America's leadership in the world." (1975) | Gerald Ford |
| "The picture of the world's greatest superpower killing or injuring 1000 noncombatants a week, while trying to pound a tiny backward nation into submission on an issue whose merits are hotly disputed, is not a pretty one." (1967) |  |
| "It was startling to me to find out that we had no military plan to end the war" (1968) | Clark Clifford,  |
| "If, when the chips are down, the world's most powerful nation...acts like a pitiful, helpless giant, the forces of totalitarianism and anarch will threaten free nations and free institutions throughout the world." (April 30, 1970) | Richard Nixon, |
| "At some point you make a prudential judgement that whatever good you can get out of the war, or what good is going to come from it, is not proportionate to the destruction of life and property and the draining away of moral energy, which goes along with the pursuit of the war in a way in which we are now pursuing it."(1968) | Eugene McCarthy |
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