Quotes About Legacy

There is no way in which we can retrospectively erase the Treaty of Vienna or the Great Irish Famine. It is a peculiar feature of human actions that, once performed, they can never be recuperated. What is true of the past will always be true of it.

I am a song of my times. I wasn't living in Vienna, like Mozart or Beethoven. In my circumstances, it was impossible to be indifferent.

Bernstein was everywhere - Vienna, London - and everyone admired him. Of course he loved Boston, and he did so many great things at Tanglewood. He was the best example of what a conductor should be.

My mother was one of the first women admitted to Vienna University and her word was law.

My dad was a fighter pilot with the 210th Combat Aviation in Vietnam.

I carry the memories of the ghosts of a place called Vietnam - the people of Vietnam, my fellow soldiers.

Don't underlook the Sixties; we started eating more vegetables, respecting women, and we shut down Vietnam. We did a lot of good stuff. But it shouldn't shut you down from the moment.

It was definitely a part of our life. I mean, my mom had both her brothers and her fiancee in Vietnam at the same time, so it wasn't just my dad's story, it was my mom's story too. And we definitely grew up listening to the stories.

The war in Vietnam I thought a dreadful mistake.

John Kerry's service did not end in Vietnam. It began there.

If the war has faded into history, democracy's defeat in Vietnam has left deep marks in the consciousness of both nations.

Every president has to live with the result of what Lyndon Johnson did with Vietnam, when he lost the trust of the American people in the presidency.

My father had gone to Vietnam.

Historians partial to Kennedy see matters differently from those partial to L.B.J. Vietnam has become a point of contention in defending and criticizing J.F.K.

It's Kennedy's war, Vietnam. Lyndon Johnson got all the flak, but it's Kennedy's war.

War is war. Vietnam is no different from the Crusades.

Yes, Obama took over two wars from Bush - just as President Richard Nixon inherited Vietnam from President Lyndon Johnson and President Dwight Eisenhower inherited Korea from President Harry Truman. But at least the war in Iraq was all but won by 2009, thanks largely to the very surge Obama had opposed as a senator.

My father was a Vietnam vet, and he was Green Beret.

I'm from Texas, so I'm an LBJ fan. He passed more civil-rights bills than any other president. He made a mistake in Vietnam, but who didn't?

My parents are both war veterans; they met in Vietnam. They were involved in a war that they absolutely disagreed with.

I'm from the Vietnam generation.

My father is American and deserted the Vietnam War.

I was not able to stop or slow down the Vietnam War.

For a decade or more after the Vietnam war, the people who had guided the U.S. to disaster decently shrank from the public stage.