Vietnam Air Offensive

Famous quotes containing the words vietnam, air and/or offensive:

    “Let us understand: North Vietnam cannot defeat or humiliate the United States. Only Americans can do that.”
    —Richard M. Nixon (1913–1992)

    “Hast not thy share? On winged feet,
    Lo! it rushes thee to meet;
    And all that Nature made thy own,
    Floating in air or pent in stone,
    Will rive the hills and swim the sea,
    And, like thy shadow, follow thee.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “There is something about the literary life that repels me, all this desperate building of castles on cobwebs, the long-drawn acrimonious struggle to make something important which we all know will be gone forever in a few years, the miasma of failure which is to me almost as offensive as the cheap gaudiness of popular success.”
    —Raymond Chandler (1888–1959)