Base South Vietnam

Famous quotes containing the words base, south and/or vietnam:

    “Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.”
    —Aristotle (384–322 B.C.)

    “Returned this day, the south wind searches,
    And finds young pines and budding birches;
    But finds not the budding man.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “Above all, Vietnam was a war that asked everything of a few and nothing of most in America.”
    —Myra MacPherson, U.S. author. Long Time Passing: Vietnam and the Haunted Generation, epilogue (1984)