Vietnam War Quotes

“I had other priorities in the '60s than military service.”

“All the way with LBJ.”

“Somebody had to raise the question of the morality of the war.”

“The American people have a right to know the full story of our involvement in Vietnam.”

“The way to get out of Vietnam is to declare victory and go home.”

“We have a firm and continuing commitment in Vietnam. We are there because we believe in the preservation of the independence of South Vietnam.”

“I'm not going to be the first American general to lose a war.”

“I am here today to read what is in effect the story of how our country went wrong, how we stumbled into this tragic war.”

“We decided to increase the size of the Australian force in Vietnam to a brigade group of about 4,500 men.”

“Every senator in this chamber is partly responsible for sending 50,000 young Americans to an early grave. This chamber reeks of blood.”

“We were wrong, terribly wrong. We owe it to future generations to explain why.”

“They're a tough enemy. It's a tough war.”

“The longer the war in Vietnam goes on, the more difficult it becomes to wage it without admitting the lies that have been told.”

“We are winning a war of attrition.”

“The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust our own government statements. I had no idea until then that you could not rely on them.”

“What happened in Saigon was a moral failure of the first order.”

“We'll just go on bleeding them until Hanoi wakes up to the fact that they have bled their country to the point of national disaster.”

“I see a light at the end of the tunnel.”

“The time has come to say, 'The emperor has no clothes.'”

“My main task was to prevent the Communists from taking over South Vietnam.”