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Top 15 Neil Sheehan Quotes (2025 Update)

Neil Sheehan Quote: “World War II had been such a tremendous success story for this country that the political and military leadership began to assume that they would prevail simply because of who they were. We were like the British at the turn of the 19th century.”

1. “World War II had been such a tremendous success story for this country that the political and military leadership began to assume that they would prevail simply because of who they were. We were like the British at the turn of the 19th century.”

— Neil Sheehan

Neil Sheehan Quote: “At least I’m at peace with myself. I have done my best to write a book about what really happened there and why it happened and it’s done, it’s published. I won’t write another book on Vietnam.”

2. “At least I’m at peace with myself. I have done my best to write a book about what really happened there and why it happened and it’s done, it’s published. I won’t write another book on Vietnam.”

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Neil Sheehan Quote: “Americans, particularly after World War II, tended to romanticize war because in World War II our cause was the cause of humanity, and our soldiers brought home glory and victory, and thank God that they did. But it led us to romanticize it to some extent.”

3. “Americans, particularly after World War II, tended to romanticize war because in World War II our cause was the cause of humanity, and our soldiers brought home glory and victory, and thank God that they did. But it led us to romanticize it to some extent.”

— Neil Sheehan

Neil Sheehan Quote: “Just because you put higher-octane gasoline in your car doesn’t mean you can break the speed limit. The speed limit’s still 65.”

4. “Just because you put higher-octane gasoline in your car doesn’t mean you can break the speed limit. The speed limit’s still 65.”

— Neil Sheehan

Neil Sheehan Quote: “The unthinkable occurred: two communist countries went to war with each other.”

5. “The unthinkable occurred: two communist countries went to war with each other.”

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Neil Sheehan Quote: “Lansdale was a victim in Vietnam of his success in the Phillipines. Men who succeed at an enterprise of great moment often tie a snare for themselves by assuming that they have discovered some universal truth.”

6. “Lansdale was a victim in Vietnam of his success in the Phillipines. Men who succeed at an enterprise of great moment often tie a snare for themselves by assuming that they have discovered some universal truth.”

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Neil Sheehan Quote: “We thought that whatever we wanted to do was right and good, simply because we were Americans, and we would succeed at it because we were Americans.”

7. “We thought that whatever we wanted to do was right and good, simply because we were Americans, and we would succeed at it because we were Americans.”

— Neil Sheehan

Neil Sheehan Quote: “I went to Vietnam; it was my first assignment as a reporter for the UPI, and I never could get away from the war.”

8. “I went to Vietnam; it was my first assignment as a reporter for the UPI, and I never could get away from the war.”

— Neil Sheehan

Neil Sheehan Quote: “We had a military and political leadership at that period which was genuinely deluded.”

9. “We had a military and political leadership at that period which was genuinely deluded.”

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Neil Sheehan Quote: “The destruction of civilian hamlets, the killing and the wounding of civilians, became vastly greater than it had been before, and it was very upsetting; but I still couldnt bring myself to understand that the policy itself was wrong.”

10. “The destruction of civilian hamlets, the killing and the wounding of civilians, became vastly greater than it had been before, and it was very upsetting; but I still couldnt bring myself to understand that the policy itself was wrong.”

— Neil Sheehan

Neil Sheehan Quote: “People talked to me in a way I think they would not have talked to somebody who hadn’t shared the experience; they gave me their papers, they gave me their diaries. I found people constantly opening up to me. And I think they did because I had shared that experience with them.”

11. “People talked to me in a way I think they would not have talked to somebody who hadn’t shared the experience; they gave me their papers, they gave me their diaries. I found people constantly opening up to me. And I think they did because I had shared that experience with them.”

— Neil Sheehan

Neil Sheehan Quote: “We wanted to see this country win the war just as much as those advisors did. We felt we would help to do that by reporting the truth. And so there was the moral outrage over this general and the ambassador in Saigon who kept denying the truth we would see.”

12. “We wanted to see this country win the war just as much as those advisors did. We felt we would help to do that by reporting the truth. And so there was the moral outrage over this general and the ambassador in Saigon who kept denying the truth we would see.”

— Neil Sheehan

Neil Sheehan Quote: “These men were wrongfully rejected, the veterans. The fighting man should never have been blamed for Vietnam.”

13. “These men were wrongfully rejected, the veterans. The fighting man should never have been blamed for Vietnam.”

— Neil Sheehan

Neil Sheehan Quote: “I never got away from the war. Not because I was obsessed with it in those years, but because it was the event of my generation and I started out covering it so I stayed with it.”

14. “I never got away from the war. Not because I was obsessed with it in those years, but because it was the event of my generation and I started out covering it so I stayed with it.”

— Neil Sheehan

Neil Sheehan Quote: “Vann had a practiced eye for loneliness. He walked over to her and said that she was pretty and complimented her on her clothes.”

15. “Vann had a practiced eye for loneliness. He walked over to her and said that she was pretty and complimented her on her clothes.”

— Neil Sheehan

Neil Sheehan Quote: “I think you have to remember that Americans saw their purpose as so innately good that they could excuse the pain they would inflict on others to carry out those purposes. Because the purposes were so good, they would justify this pain we were inflicting on other people.”

16. “I think you have to remember that Americans saw their purpose as so innately good that they could excuse the pain they would inflict on others to carry out those purposes. Because the purposes were so good, they would justify this pain we were inflicting on other people.”

— Neil Sheehan

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