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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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"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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"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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"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 to find the good!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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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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"There is a terrible war coming, and these young men who have never seen war cannot wait for it to happen, but I tell you, I wish that I owned every slave in the south, for I would free them all to avoid this war." »Robert E. Lee
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"Our avian brothers are back to roost on the first leg of their annual sojourn south. Why them and not us Maybe it's because we humans are meant to be rooted in one spot." »Mitchell Burgess
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"In the south of California has gathered the larges and most miscellaneous assortment of Messiahs, Sorcerers, Saints and Seers known to the history of aberrations." »Farnsworth Crowder
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"Relative calm is expected in south Central Los Angeles for the next several weeks, as looters stay home and try to program their new VCRs." »Weekend Update
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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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"I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they (the whites of south Africa) have turned to loving, they will find we (the blacks) are turned to hating." »Alan Stewart Paton
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"The people of the south have rejected the constitutional amendment, and therefore we will march upon them and force them to adopt it at the point of the bayonet, and establish military power over them until they do adopt it." »John Whitehead
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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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"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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"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 gotta have a dream. If you don't have a dream, how you gonna make a dream come true (South Pacific)" »Oscar Hammerstein, II
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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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"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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"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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"In the south where slavery still exists, the Negroes are less carefully kept apart they sometimes share the labors and the recreations of the whites the whites consent to intermix with them to a certain extent, and although legislation treats them more harshly, the habits of the people are more tolerant and compassionate." »Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville
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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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