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And the big fool says to push on.|"Waist Deep in the Big Muddy", '''Pete Seeger'''}}
{{quote|If America's soul becomes totally poisoned, part of the autopsy must read: Vietnam.|'''Martin Luther King''', 1967}}
{{quote|We weren't on the wrong side. We were the wrong side. |'''Daniel Ellsberg'''}}
{{quote|Let's "do something crazy" in Vietnam: let's get out|'''[[Paul Harvey]]''', 1968 }}
{{quote|Anyone wanting to commit ground troops to the mainland of [[Asia]] should have his head examined.|'''Douglas MacArthur''', 1961 }}
{{quote|The US was and is the world's leading naval power, but fearing to offend the Soviets, failed to blockade Haiphong. A river of motions flowed through that port to be used against South Vietnam and its allies.|'''Nguyen Cao Ky'''}}
{{quote|More recently, we ([[The Extremist Was Right|the John Birch Society]]) have been emphasizing [[Senseless Waste of Human Life|the horror of wasting American lives in Vietnam]] in a stage managed exhibition carried on by Washington for the political advantage of being at war and without any will to win.|'''Robert W. Welch''', 1965 }}
{{quote|'''Kirk:''' Bones, do you remember the twentieth century brush wars on the Asian continent? Two giant powers involved, Much like the Klingons and ourselves. Neither side felt they could pull out.
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'''McCoy:''' And if the Klingons give their side even more?
'''Kirk:''' Then we arm our side with exactly that much more. A balance of power. The trickiest, most difficult, dirtiest game of all, but the only one that preserves both sides.|''[[Star Trek]]'', "A Private Little War" }}
{{quote|You cannot defend to the death, when every week you hear from your family that they don't have enough food to eat. And you look to Saigon, the rich had food, liquor, they have money, they relax, have a good time. Why fight to the death? For Whom?|'''ARVN Marine''' }}
{{quote|Once upon a time, our traditional goal in war and can anyone doubt we are at war? - was victory. Once upon a time, we were proud of our strength,our military power. Now we seem ashamed of it. Once upon a time the rest of the world looked to us for leadership. Now they look to us for a quick handout and a fence-straddling international posture.|'''Barry M. Goldwater''', 1962 }}
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