Vietnam War Quotes

It was not just a war. It was **a deep wound in the American and global soul**. The Vietnam War. A complex conflict fought in dense jungles. And urban alleys. It redefined the concept of armed conflict. And raised questions whose echoes still resonate. About morality. About power. And about the price of intervention. These sayings are testimonies from the battlefield. And from the conscience of a nation.

Quote by Muhammad Ali: The same people that are with me for not going to Vietnam because I saved them and their children.Th...
The same people that are with me for not going to Vietnam because I saved them and their children.The same people will give me hell if I turn to them and say, 'let's free my people now'.They're with me on one part of my beliefs about the war, that's all. Not for my freedom.
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— Muhammad Ali
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Quote by Ronald Reagan: Because Vietnam was not a declared war, the veterans are not even eligible for the G. I. Bill of Rig...
Because Vietnam was not a declared war, the veterans are not even eligible for the G. I. Bill of Rights with respect to education or anything.
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— Ronald Reagan
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Quote by Dave Barry: The whole thing about whether you smoke marijuana or not is so ridiculous. That and whether you prot...
The whole thing about whether you smoke marijuana or not is so ridiculous. That and whether you protested the Vietnam War. Give me a break. Especially the marijuana thing.
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— Dave Barry
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Quote by Ronald Reagan: The war in vietnam threatened to tear our society apart, and the political and philosophical disagre...
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.
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— Ronald Reagan
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Quote by Martin Luther King, Jr.: We were taking the black young men who had been crippled by our society and sending them eight thous...
We were taking the black young men who had been crippled by our society and sending them eight thousand miles away to guarantee liberties in Southeast Asia which they had not found in southwest Georgia and East Harlem.
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— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Quote by Muhammad Ali: They say actually every time I enter the ring, in a way, I`m going to the war. They say to me daily,...
They say actually every time I enter the ring, in a way, I`m going to the war. They say to me daily, you are a prized fighter, what`s the difference? And I like to say to those critics of the press and the others that there is one hell of a lot of difference in fighting in a ring and going to war in Vietnam.
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— Muhammad Ali
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Quote by Ronald Reagan: The true lesson of the Vietnam War is: certainty of purpose and ruthlessness of execution win wars....
The true lesson of the Vietnam War is: certainty of purpose and ruthlessness of execution win wars.
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— Ronald Reagan
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Quote by Muhammad Ali: Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go ten thousand miles from home and drop bombs and bu...
Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go ten thousand miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights?
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— Muhammad Ali
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Quote by Muhammad Ali: There is one hell of a difference between fighting in the ring and going to war in Vietnam....
There is one hell of a difference between fighting in the ring and going to war in Vietnam.
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— Muhammad Ali
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Quote by Martin Luther King, Jr.: I knew that America would never invest the necessary funds of energies in rehabilitation of its poor...
I knew that America would never invest the necessary funds of energies in rehabilitation of its poor as long as adventures like Vietnam continued to draw men and skills and money like some demonic destructive suction tube.
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— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Quote by Ronald Reagan: The signs of the Vietnam War protestors said
The signs of the Vietnam War protestors said "Make Love not War!" It didn't seem to me that they were capable of either.
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— Ronald Reagan
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