Westmoreland Quotes & Sayings

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

The condition in New Orleans was changing every day. I said, why don't we appropriate another $10 billion, come back and look at the situation, and do another $10 billion every week, or every 10 days? — Lynn Westmoreland

They're asking women to do impossible things. I don't believe women can carry a pack, live in a foxhole, or go a week without a bath. — William Westmoreland

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

I was participating in my own lynching, but the problem was I didn't know what I was being lynched for. — William Westmoreland

What the Democrats don't seem to understand is that higher taxes mean fewer American jobs and less American production. — Lynn Westmoreland

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. — William Westmoreland

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

The Women of the Storm made a big difference for me, because it really put some real-life faces with the situation, and not just politicians. — Lynn Westmoreland

When I took command in Vietnam, I gave great emphasis to food and medical care - and to the mail. — William Westmoreland

I don't take criticism lying down. — William Westmoreland

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

There was an interesting development in the CBS-Westmoreland trial:
both sides agreed that after the trial, Andy Rooney would be allowed to
talk to the jury for three minutes about little things that annoyed him
during the trial. — David Letterman

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

I haven't yet figured out how I was made first captain, because I was not an outstanding student. I was an adequate student. — William Westmoreland

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

I see battlefields that are under 24-hour real or near-real time surveillance of all types. I see battlefields on which we can destroy anything we can locate through instant communications and almost instantaneous application of highly lethal firepower. — William Westmoreland

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

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

Trust me, I'm going to find out where the money has gone and how it has been spent, and see if we can't get it down there quicker to let that rebuilding start. — Lynn Westmoreland

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. — William Westmoreland

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. — William Westmoreland

Royce Westmoreland stared at him with biting scorn. "I despise hypocrisy, particularly when it is coated with holiness."
"May I ask for a specific example?"
"Fat priests," Royce replied, "with fat purses, who lecture staving peasants on the dangers of gluttony and the merits of poverty. — Judith McNaught

Whitney, My Love is the story of Clayton Westmoreland, the Ninth Duke of Claymore. Until You features Stephen Westmoreland's — Judith McNaught

We'll blast them back into the stone ages! — William Westmoreland

We have reached an important point when the end begins to come into view. — William Westmoreland

If I ever think you are even considering leaving me again, no matter how good you reasons, I'll have you locked in your rooms and the doors barricaded, so help me God." He lifted her foot and began to dry it.
Her voice shaking, Whitney asked, "Will you stay locked in there with me?"
He raised her dainty foot to his jaw and tenderly laid his cheek against it, then turned his head and kissed it. "Yes," he whispered.
-Clayton Westmoreland — Judith McNaught

I talked to General Downer about some of the funding about the National Guard and some of the civil defense workers, the firefighters, the police officers, and the way that FEMA is making them spend that money. We have got a problem there. — Lynn Westmoreland

We moved in to help the Vietnamese defend their country and confront the Viet Cong. — William Westmoreland

Tell the Truth, and speak from your pay-grade. Don't try to answer questions that would better be directed to the battalion commander or Gen. William Westmoreland or President Lyndon Johnson. If you are a squad leader, answer questions about what you know and do. — Hal Moore

War is fear cloaked in courage. — William Westmoreland

As the senior commander in Vietnam, I was aware of the potency of public opinion - and I worried about it. — William Westmoreland

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

You can't condemn me for wanting you, unless you condemn every other man who has. -Clayton Westmoreland — Judith McNaught

Television is an instrument which can paralyze this country. — William Westmoreland

Why is it when you yield, I feel like the one who has been conquered?
-Royce Westmoreland — Judith McNaught

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. — William Westmoreland

Even though you're a member of the wrong party, you've got some great ideas ... — Lynn Westmoreland

Behold your new mistress, my wife," he pronounced, "and know that when she
bids you, I have bidden you. What service you render her, you are rendering me. What loyalty you give or withhold from her, you give or withhold from me!"
-Royce Westmoreland — Judith McNaught

And in that unlikely moment, as she held his dagger poised high, ready to strike, Royce Westmoreland thought she was the most magnificent creature he'd ever beheld; a wild, beautiful, enraged angel of retribution, her chest rising and falling with fury as she courageously confronted an enemy who towered over her. — Judith McNaught

I have no apologies, no regrets. I gave my very best efforts ... I've been hung in effigy. I've been spat upon. You just have to let those things bounce off . — William Westmoreland

Oh, that that old man in Westmoreland would die and be gathered to his fathers, now that he was full of years and ripe for the sickle! But there was no sign of death about the old man. — Anthony Trollope

I'm going to go back and find out where the money is. The money is not getting down there. — Lynn Westmoreland

Westmoreland recognized that the only way to seal South Vietnam's eight hundred-mile western border was to shut down the infiltration routes. — Robert D. Sander

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

It became very clear that Hanoi was in effect strategically running the Viet Cong operation. — William Westmoreland

The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars. — William C. Westmoreland

It would have hurt no matter who took you the first time. — Judith McNaught

Westmoreland's body counts were bogus. He believed them - he was not the first general to welcome statistics he wanted to hear. But, in practice, there was every incentive for field commanders to inflate or even invent body counts. It was how their performance was assessed, and it became one of the greatest self-reporting scams in history. The absurd body counts and kill ratios were proof of his leadership. Westmoreland sold them to LBJ, who in turn presented them as fact to the American people. — Mark Bowden

Miss stone, I adore you. — Judith McNaught

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. — William Westmoreland

Some women need no jewels to make them sparkle. You are one of them.
-Royce Westmoreland — Judith McNaught

How foolish to yearn to ask the very person who'd caused the pain to heal it — Judith McNaught

Truman fired the popular Gen. Douglas MacArthur because he disobeyed orders in the Korean War. Johnson knew that he had reached the endgame in Vietnam when Gen. William Westmoreland, the top commander in Vietnam, requested 240,000 more troops in 1968 for the prolonged war that also could not be won. — Helen Thomas

We had the best food any battlefield ever had. — William Westmoreland

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

I think these ladies, that group of 130 women, are going to make a difference in what goes on down there, because they're going to hold the locals' feet to the fire. — Lynn Westmoreland

By the end of the summer of 1973 I thought it was virtually impossible for South Vietnam to survive. How in the heck could they? — William Westmoreland

She kissed him with all the aching longing that being this close to him evoked; she kissed him in all the ways he had ever kissed her, feeling faint with joy when he began to kiss her back, his mouth moving with fierce tenderness, then opening with fiery demand over hers, until their breaths were mingled gasps, and they were straining to one another. — Judith McNaught

The greatest threat to the constitutional right to vote is voter fraud. — Lynn Westmoreland