John F. Kennedy Quotes

We’ve got to get out of Vietnam or else we have to educate the people as to why we are in there.

THIS WILL BE FINAL MESSAGE FROM SAIGON STATION…. IT HAS BEEN A LONG FLIGHT AND WE HAVE LOST…. THOSE WHO FAIL TO LEARN FROM HISTORY ARE FORCED TO REPEAT IT. LET US HOPE THAT WE WILL NOT HAVE ANOTHER VIETNAM EXPERIENCE AND THAT WE HAVE LEARNED A LESSON. SAIGON SIGNING OFF.

I don't think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged.

Sure we won the war, but the peace we’re losing badly.

It’s damn easy to get into a war, but damned harder to extricate yourself once you get in.

We wanted this war and now we've got it, and I'm not sure that we know what to do with it.

As many people have chronicled, the decision to fight in Vietnam was a years-long accretion of step-by-step choices, each of which could be rationalized at the time. Invading Iraq was an unforced, unnecessary decision to risk everything on a 'war of choice' whose costs we are still paying.

I'm sure it is, I'm not for any kind of war, we've been engaged in several wars since the second world war and we lost in Korea, we lost in Vietnam, they are political wars, they have nothing to do with any real threat, nor does this one.

First, we could have defied both of them and could have gone to war against both of these nations for this violation of international law and interference with our neutral rights.

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

Doves oppose war on the grounds that the risks exceed the gains. War with Iraq could be very costly, possibly degenerating into urban warfare.

In case of war, a treaty would have to be made at the end of the war.

Once you start a war, you have to win.

War is failure of diplomacy.

It is easy to get into war, not so easy to get out.

First of all, war is a very, very difficult thing to deal with, even on the good days.

Even soldiers from the Vietnam War had said that when they were fighting in that war, the landmine was just one of any number of weapons to use in the fighting. It wasn't until they began to think about the aftermath and the legacy of landmines that they recognized the long-term, indiscriminate impact of the weapon.

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

People who start wars never know exactly how they will turn out.

There are a lot of starry eyed State Department boys busting to raise the standard of living of Arabs who should be all killed off… no State Department people should be permitted in a theater of war, nor at the peace treaty

It makes no difference who says that our objective is peace, even if he be the President of the United States. Our actions speak louder than words, and our actions in Asia today are the actions of warmaking.

Bomb Vietnam back into the stone age.

We we’re wrong, terribly wrong [about the Vietnam war.]

We saw Vietnam disintegrating before our eyes—at least the structure of the state disintegrating.

War: First, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering; in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost.