Top 21 Vietnamese War Sayings

#1. I'm not so much against the war as I am for a Vietnamese victory. I'm not so much for peace as for a U.S. defeat.

Bill Ayers

Vietnamese War Sayings #100514
#2. The war was won on both sides: by the Vietnamese on the ground, by the Americans in the electronic mental space. And if the one side won an ideological and political victory, the other made Apocalypse Now and that has gone right around the world.

Jean Baudrillard

Vietnamese War Sayings #209384
#3. Now you may like the images of long-haired hippies running in the streets throwing tear gas canisters, but we didn't end the war. And that's what we set out to do. What was not ended by the anti-war movement was ended by the Vietnamese. That's our shame.

Bill Ayers

Vietnamese War Sayings #638079
#4. Everybody who went to Vietnam carries his or her own version of the war. Only 10 percent engaged in combat; the American elephant, pursuing the Vietnamese grasshopper, was extraordinarily heavy with logistical support.

Pete Hamill

Vietnamese War Sayings #664388
#5. President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave their brothers in the South alone.

William Westmoreland

Vietnamese War Sayings #692809
#6. Time doesn't actually heal anything, but a large enough dose will eventually act as an anesthetic.

Stephen H. Banks

Vietnamese War Sayings #778890
#7. I would say that the Vietnamese should remember that they didn't have exactly the same mobility the way the Americans have. They didn't have the same kind of equipment that the Americans have and that they have to fight their own war.

Bui Diem

Vietnamese War Sayings #796753
#8. People say that human rights is a Western construct foisted on others. But that's not true. Equality, dignity, respect and justice are as much an integral part of the Islamic tradition.

Cherie Blair

Vietnamese War Sayings #802941
#9. We lived in St. Tropez when I was young, and there were a lot of Vietnamese refugees in France at the time, after the war. My mother had many Vietnamese friends who entertained a lot, and she was taught how to make that spring roll. She would make them all the time.

Eric Ripert

Vietnamese War Sayings #804695
#10. Being stubborn won't make you fluent. Practicing will! The more mistakes you make, the more you'll learn not to.

Thanhha Lai

Vietnamese War Sayings #879291
#11. Gentlemen. You are looking at the true Abraham Lincoln of Arabia. And in order to end our internal bickering - our civil war, if you will - I have solicited your aid.

Leonard Leventon

Vietnamese War Sayings #888620
#12. Many people think trees grow so big from soil and water, but this is not true. Trees get their mass from the air. They gobble up airborne carbon dioxide and perform an act of chemical fission by using the energy from sunshine ... Essentially, trees are made of air and sunshine.

Ned Hayes

Vietnamese War Sayings #929765
#13. If people are to develop any deep spirituality today, and especially if men are to develop spiritually, they need to be liberated from self-serving worldviews.

Richard Rohr

Vietnamese War Sayings #950867
#14. Frederick Buechner brings the reader to his knees, sometimes in laughter, sometimes in an astonishment very close to prayer, and at the best of times in a combination of both.

Michael Mewshaw

Vietnamese War Sayings #1082669
#15. I didn't expect to find much visible trace of the American war in Vietnam. The Vietnamese are too hard-bitten to dwell on it, and they've sanded away all but the outcroppings of history - the museums, the memorials.

Evan Osnos

Vietnamese War Sayings #1148491
#16. I hate being told I can't do something because I'm a girl!

Thanhha Lai

Vietnamese War Sayings #1238609
#17. And the Blue Angels are coming back to scare the local population. I remember seeing old Vietnamese women ducking under the benches in Washington Square; they thought they were back in the war.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Vietnamese War Sayings #1240242
#18. The argument that John F. Kennedy was a closet peacenik, ready to give up on what the Vietnamese call the 'American War' upon re-election, received its most farcical treatment in Oliver Stone's 'JFK.'

Rick Perlstein

Vietnamese War Sayings #1785901
#19. Against the U.S. strategy of attrition, the North Vietnamese pursued a strategy of "enervation" or protracted war. This meant tiring the enemy of his will to fight.

Robert Freeman

Vietnamese War Sayings #1806540
#20. Why do I do it? Because I enjoy its effects. You know, I - why does anybody use any mind-altering substance, you know, because they like the way it makes them feel.

Mark Stepnoski

Vietnamese War Sayings #1821266
#21. The Iranians don't intimidate! They're like the Vietnamese and the Iraqis. You want to start a war with them? They'll still be fighting in fifty years!

Ted Turner

Vietnamese War Sayings #1853998

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