William Westmoreland Quotes

» Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.

» 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.

» War is fear cloaked in courage.

» Vietnam was the first war ever fought without any censorship. Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.

» Television is an instrument which can paralyze this country.

» I was participating in my own lynching, but the problem was I didn't know what I was being lynched for.

» The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.

» We moved in to help the Vietnamese defend their country and confront the Viet Cong.

» It became very clear that Hanoi was in effect strategically running the Viet Cong operation.

» I've made this statement many times: If I would have to do it over again, I would have made known the forthcoming Tet Offensive.

» It's the first war we've ever fought on the television screen and the first war that our country ever fought where the media had full reign.

» We were succeeding. When you looked at specifics, this became a war of attrition. We were winning.

» The military lead turbulent lives, but they are people like everybody else.

» I don't think I have been loved by my troops, but I think I have been respected.

» When I took command in Vietnam, I gave great emphasis to food and medical care - and to the mail.

» We had the best food any battlefield ever had.

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

» The last man in the world who should have been criticized was the American soldier. They should have criticized me.

» I don't take criticism lying down.

» I haven't yet figured out how I was made first captain, because I was not an outstanding student. I was an adequate student.

» My wife was my greatest asset. I didn't marry her until after World War II, but she has complemented me in every job I've ever had.

» By the end of the summer of 1973 I thought it was virtually impossible for South Vietnam to survive. How in the heck could they?

» Militarily, we succeeded in Vietnam. We won every engagement we were involved in out there.

» As the senior commander in Vietnam, I was aware of the potency of public opinion - and I worried about it.

» In the end, we lost IndoChina to the communists. But we did not lose Southeast Asia.

» When the soldiers came home from Vietnam, there were no parades, no celebrations. So they built the Vietnam Memorial for themselves.

» The Vietnam memorial is a masterpiece. The names of the dead are listed there, chronologically. Just the names.

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