Nguyen Van Thieu Quotes

Sending our young men and women into battle is perhaps the most serious course of action a Nation can undertake.

I do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle.

No two wars are ever the same. Some are just, some are unjust, but the basic commonality shared between them all is that young men and women heeded a call to service, overcame their fear, and fought for their side.

In the middle of the nineteenth century, the United States embarked on a new relationship with death, entering into a civil war that proved bloodier than any other conflict in American history, a war that would presage the slaughter of World War I's Western Front and the global carnage of the twentieth century.

When you go to war, it's important for everybody to know that they're going to come home in one way or other.

No one really wants to send their kids off to die for oil.

Revenge by young men is considered gain, even at the cost of their own lives, but old men who stay at home in times of war, and mothers who have sons to lose, know better.

I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.

The war effects me less than it ought. I can do no service to anybody by agitating for news or making dole over the slaughter.

Instead of a few hundreds of thousands of men meeting each other in war, millions would now meet, and modern weapons would multiply manifold the power of destruction.

It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don't want victories anymore.

The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.

Later we learned that it was one of our own men hanging on the wire. Nobody could do anything for him; two men had already tried to save him, only to be shot themselves.

Well, we've faced very difficult decisions and challenges in our country, every one of us have, as we - since September 11th, as we fought the war on terror, all of those decisions that the President had to make to put young men and women in harm's way.

I think I was always subconsciously driven by an attempt to restate that faith and to show where it was properly grounded, how it grew out of what a great many young men on both sides felt and believed and were brave enough to do.

I don't think any war is worth having our soldiers killed.

We have adopted a war ready—made, and taken upon ourselves its prosecution to the end. We are to furnish the bodies to fill trenches and the cash to defray its enormous expense.

Politicians start wars, but it's young men who wash themselves with blood because of the politicians' shortsightedness.

Every day, more and more of our young men are shipped to Vietnam and forced to fight under conditions carefully contrived to ensure the maximum loss of American life and to ensure eventual defeat.

It’s very easy to advocate going to war if you’re not one of the people who is going.

The United States is involved in a war in Vietnam. American troops will stay until victory.

My message was one of death for young men. How odd it is to applaud that.

... deployed on the sands of Saudi Arabia and facing possible extinction, are young men and women drawn, in the main, from the poorer families of our republic.

As long as tides of war are in our favor, the United States will never stop fighting. As a consequence, the war will continue for several years, during which materiel will be exhausted, vessels and arms will be damaged, and they can be replaced only with great difficulties.

When people refer to a cage fight as war, I think it's kinda cute... A war, huh? You know what a war is? They, evidently, don't. It's not maybe their place to know what it is, but I do.