Present Day Vietnam

Famous quotes containing the words present, day and/or vietnam:

    “Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.”
    —George Orwell (1903–1950)

    “Listen, my children, and you shall hear
    Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere,
    On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five;
    Hardly a man is now alive
    Who remembers that famous day and year.”
    —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1809–1882)

    “That’s just the trouble, Sam Houston—it’s always my move. And damnit, I sometimes can’t tell whether I’m making the right move or not. Now take this Vietnam mess. How in the hell can anyone know for sure what’s right and what’s wrong, Sam?”
    —Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)