Quotes About History

Remember, MTV would only show white videos for a long time. Can you imagine that? That was the '80s when that happened. It's hard to even think of that now, you know?

I'm quite nostalgic. I like looking back over the papers and watching videos.

Vienna is a handsome, lively city, and pleases me exceedingly.

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.

For my Vienna is as different from what they call Vienna now as the quick is different from the dead.

In December of 1952, my first wife, Kirby, and I left Vienna to drive through the Russian sector of Austria into Yugoslavia.

'In Country' is about a high school girl's quest for knowledge about her father, who died in Vietnam just before she was born.

If you run an Internet search on Vietnam and the war, most of the information you get begins at about 1962. I think this is telling. It is missing the whole period that led up to the reasons the war happened in the first place.

I'm head-over-heels in love with Southeast Asia. Every time I touch down in Thailand, Cambodia, or Vietnam, the air washes over me, and I feel like I'm home. From the people to the food to the history, there's just no place like it.

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

We didn't lose Vietnam. We quit Vietnam.

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

You know, it's very clear, as one looks back on history again of the Cold War that, following the crisis in Cuba, following the Khrushchev - beating down of Jack Kennedy in Vienna, that President Kennedy believed that we had to join the battle for the Third World, and the next crisis that developed in that regards was Vietnam.

Vietnam was not a war of choice the United States had to fight. It was clearly not central.

My ultimate getaway is Vietnam. It has a little bit of everything when it comes to culture, amazing food, beautiful people, exotic sights, sounds and profound history of love, bravery and resilience.

McNamara's plea was that he had no idea that Vietnam had a history of longing for self-determination, a history of resisting foreign invasion.

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.

It seems to me the American people never really forgave the Democrats for being right about Vietnam.

My family had to leave Vietnam because my uncles fought alongside the Aussies.

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

After Vietnam, the Democrats became fundamentally the anti-military as a party.

Vietnam was as much a laboratory experiment as a war.