William Westmoreland War Quotations

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

This was a type of war that we'd had no experience with before. Some of our policies were kind of trial and error in character.

We'll blast them back into the stone ages!

War is fear cloaked in courage.