William Westmoreland Quotes
"I don't think I have been loved by my troops, but I think I have been respected."
- William Westmoreland
(Related: Troops)
"I don't take criticism lying down."
- William Westmoreland
(Related: Criticism, Lying)
"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?"
- William Westmoreland
(Related: Thought, End, Summer, Vietnam)
"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."
- William Westmoreland
(Related: Men, War, Credit, Enemy, Vietnam)
"Vietnam was the first war ever fought without any censorship. Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind."
- William Westmoreland
(Related: War, Censorship, First, Mind, Public, Vietnam)
"Television is an instrument which can paralyze this country."
- William Westmoreland
(Related: Country, Television)
"I haven't yet figured out how I was made first captain, because I was not an outstanding student. I was an adequate student."
- William Westmoreland
(Related: First)
"I was participating in my own lynching, but the problem was I didn't know what I was being lynched for."
- William Westmoreland
(Related: Being)
"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."
- William Westmoreland
"In the end, we lost IndoChina to the communists. But we did not lose Southeast Asia."
- William Westmoreland
(Related: End)
"It became very clear that Hanoi was in effect strategically running the Viet Cong operation."
- William Westmoreland
(Related: Effect, Running)
"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."
- William Westmoreland
(Related: War, Country, First, Media, Television)
"Militarily, we succeeded in Vietnam. We won every engagement we were involved in out there."
- William Westmoreland
(Related: Vietnam)
"We had the best food any battlefield ever had."
- William Westmoreland
(Related: Food)
"President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave their brothers in the South alone."
- William Westmoreland
(Related: War, Brothers, President, Vietnam, Want)
"The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars."
- William Westmoreland
(Related: Military, Politicians)
"The last man in the world who should have been criticized was the American soldier. They should have criticized me."
- William Westmoreland
(Related: American, Man, World)
"The military lead turbulent lives, but they are people like everybody else."
- William Westmoreland
(Related: People, Military)
"War is fear cloaked in courage."
- William Westmoreland
(Related: War, Fear, Courage)
"We moved in to help the Vietnamese defend their country and confront the Viet Cong."
- William Westmoreland
(Related: Country, Help)
"We were succeeding. When you looked at specifics, this became a war of attrition. We were winning."
- William Westmoreland
(Related: War, Winning)
"When I took command in Vietnam, I gave great emphasis to food and medical care - and to the mail."
- William Westmoreland
(Related: Food, Medical, Care, Mail, Vietnam)
"When the soldiers came home from Vietnam, there were no parades, no celebrations. So they built the Vietnam Memorial for themselves."
- William Westmoreland
(Related: Home, Soldiers, Vietnam)
"Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind."
- William Westmoreland
(Related: Censorship, Mind, Public)
"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."
- William Westmoreland
(Related: War, Wife, Job, World, World war)
"The Vietnam memorial is a masterpiece. The names of the dead are listed there, chronologically. Just the names."
- William Westmoreland
(Related: Names, Vietnam)