War is fear cloaked in courage.

- William Westmoreland

Television is an instrument which can paralyze this country.

- William Westmoreland

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

- William Westmoreland

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

The politicians in Washington just had no idea about the complexity of the situation in South Vietnam.

- William Westmoreland

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

- William Westmoreland

The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.

- 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 ca…

- William Westmoreland

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

- William Westmoreland