Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Eisenhower

I was a lieutenant in World War II.

Al Spalding

No human mind may measure the blessings conferred by the game of base ball on the soldiers of the Civil War. It had its earliest evolution when soldiers, North and South, were striving to forget their foes by cultivating, through this grand game, fraternal friendships with comrades in arms.

Dito Montiel

I have friends who have had PTSD, and you can get it from other things than war.

Robert E. Lee

Sir, if you ever presume again to speak disrespectfully of General Grant in my presence, either you or I will sever his connection with this university.

Richard Perle

Even now, the irony that so non-intellectual a man should choose to engage the Soviet Union on the battlefield of ideas has eluded most commentators and historians.

Richard Paul Evans

. . .and every native has a story of winter – stories that usually begin, You call this a storm? And grow in the telling like battle tales shared by graying war veterans. It’s a peculiar character flaw to those of us from cold climates that we feel superior to those who have the sense to live elsewhere.

Richard Holbrooke

The World War II generation believed the United States could do anything - anything... And Vietnam was a shattering experience for everyone.

Townsend Harris

If war should break out between England and Japan, the latter would suffer much more than the former.

Townsend Harris

In time of war steamships and improved arms are the most important things.

Tom Casey

He is the established constitutional president of Mauritania.

John Edwards

It is actually the responsibility of the president of the U.S. to be able to do two things at the same time,

Orrin Hatch

I think the president has to do some compromising here, not just the House.

Gary Chaison

I think that (AFL-CIO President John) Sweeney will have to make a strong statement about the AFL-CIO and how it's strong and still relevant.

Dale Bills

He was strong and vibrant and it was vintage President Hinckley.

Ryan Lochte

Abe Lincoln is my favorite president of all time - and he pulls off that top hat pretty well.

Reza Aslan

Obama has been the single worst president in modern American history in dealing with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

William Safire

Our rogue President, after selling face time...

Woodrow Wilson

Liberty cannot live apart from constitutional

Walter Cronkite

It seems now more certain than ever that the bloody experience of Vietnam is to end in a stalemate,

Noam Chomsky

There's never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it's mostly a fabrication.

Parker Stevenson

I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in a daze. It just hadn't occurred to me that I could end up in Vietnam

Quentin Tarantino

There was that last blast of Westerns that came out in the Seventies, those Vietnam/Watergate Westerns where everything was about demystification. And I like that about those movies.

John F. Kennedy

Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place.

Ed Bradley

I always felt more emotionally attached to Cambodia than I did to Vietnam.

Francis Ford Coppola

My film is not a movie; it's not about Vietnam. It is Vietnam.

Jay Leno

Kerry is saying that Bush never showed up for his national guard duty ... and now Bush is on the attack. He's accusing John Kerry of ducking time in the national guard by hiding out in the jungles of Vietnam.