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"Our purpose in vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South vietnam by north vietnam." »Lyndon B. Johnson
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"We Americans know-although others appear to forget-the risk of spreading conflict. We still seek no wider war. (On ordering retaliatory action against north Vietnam)" »Lyndon B. Johnson
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"One of the greatest casualties of the war in vietnam is the Great Society ... shot down on the battlefield of vietnam." »Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"Our numbers have increased in vietnam because the aggression of others has increased in vietnam. There is not, and there will not be, a mindless escalation." »Lyndon B. Johnson
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"1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on the continent of north America. Actually, people had been living full and imaginative lives on the continent of north America for hundreds of years before that. 1492 was simply the year sea pirates began to rob, cheat, and kill them." »Kurt Vonnegut: Breakfast of Champions
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"It is the great north wind that made the Vikings." »Scandinavian Proverb
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"In the middle of the north Pole, anything hot gives the feeling like touching the hand of the God!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The north was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came." »Jefferson Davis
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"West is too materialist; East is too spiritual; north is too cold; South is too loose!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"If you know the north, you know where the South is; if you know the darkness, you know where the light is! Evil is an excellent compass for the good!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"I do not feel betrayed. ... He has a fine record. He is a national hero. (On Oliver L North's work)" »Ronald Reagan
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"I am part of the sea and stars And the winds of the South and north Of mountains and Moon and Mars, And the ages sent me forth" »Edward H. S. Terry
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"If you know the north, you know where the South is; if you know the darkness, you know where the light is! Evil is an excellent compass to find the good!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it." »Confucius
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"No event in American history is more misunderstood than the vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now." »Richard Milhous Nixon
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"When I was a boy ... we didn't wake up with vietnam and have Cyprus for lunch and the Congo for dinner" »Lyndon B. Johnson
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"You see these bums, you know, blowing up campuses ... storming around about this issue. (On student protesters against vietnam War)" »Richard Milhous Nixon
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"I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy." »William Westmoreland
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"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." »William Fullbright
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"Tonight-to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans-I ask for your support. (On his vietnam War policy)" »Richard Milhous Nixon
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"The vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. ... What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it." »Henry Kissinger
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"You're so goddamned concerned about the civilians, and I don't give a damn. to Secretary of State Henry Kissinger on civilian casualties in vietnam" »Richard Milhous Nixon
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"I'm sure that President Johnson would never have pursued the war in vietnam if he'd ever had a Fulbright to Japan, or say Bangkok, or had any feeling for what these people are like and why they acted the way they did. He was completely ignorant." »William Fullbright
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"I knew from the start if I left a woman I really loved -- the Great Society -- in order to fight that bitch of a war in vietnam then I would lose everything at home. My hopes my dreams." »Lyndon B. Johnson
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"During my three years in vietnam, I certainly heard plenty of last words by dying American footsoldiers. Not one of them, however, had illusions that he had somehow accomplished something worthwhile in the process of making the Supreme Sacrifice." »Kurt Vonnegut, Hocus Pocus
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"The war in vietnam threatened to tear our society apart, and the political and philosophical disagreements that separated each side continue, to some extent. It's been said that these memorials reflect a hunger for healing." »Ronald Reagan
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"If hell uses highly refined uranium and completely pure hydrogen to stoke its fires, the roaring furnaces there will still be too cold for these depraved beings. (Speaking about the leaders of north Korea...)
read about it here: http://standfortheright.com/archives/540" »Dan Flikweert
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"I predict you will sink step by step into a bottomless quagmire, however much you spend in men and money. (On vietnam War)" »Charles De Gaulle
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"I'd rather use the nuclear bomb...Does that bother you I just want you to think big, Henry, for Christ's sake. to Secretary of State Henry Kissinger on escalating the vietnam War" »Richard Milhous Nixon
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"vietnam is a jungle. You had jungle warfare. Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, you have sand. [There is no need to worry about a protracted war because] from a historical basis, Middle East conflicts do not last a long time." »Dan Quayle, 10/2/90 (reported in Esquire, 8/92)
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