William Westmoreland Military Quotations

When the soldiers came home from Vietnam, there were no parades, no celebrations. So they built the Vietnam Memorial for themselves.

In the end, we lost IndoChina to the communists. But we did not lose Southeast Asia.

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

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

The military lead turbulent lives, but they are people like everybody else.

I don't take criticism lying down.

I don't think I have been loved by my troops, but I think I have been respected.

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.

The last man in the world who should have been criticized was the American soldier. They should have criticized me.

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.

Anytime it was advertised that I was going to be at a particular place, the radicals would be there, the cameras with TV news.

Militarily, we succeeded in Vietnam. We won every engagement we were involved in out there.