Korean War Quotes:

I am a Korean War veteran. I support our troops as much as anyone in this body, but I do so by advocating redeployment out of Iraq as soon as it can be safely done.

- John Conyers

topic: War, Iraq, Support, Korean War, Support Our Troops

In my generation, this was not the first occasion when the strong had attacked the weak.Communism was acting in Korea just as Hitler, Mussolini, and the Japanese had acted ten, fifteen, and twenty years earlier. I felt certain that if South Korea was allowed to fall, Communist leaders would be emboldened to override nations closer to our own shores.

- Harry S. Truman

topic: Strong, Fall, Communist Leaders, South Korea, Korean War

I will defend Korea as I would my own country-just as I would California.

- Douglas MacArthur

topic: Country, War, Korea, Korean War

East Asia has prospered since the end of the Vietnam War, and Northeast Asia has prospered since the end of the Korean War in a way that seems unimaginable when you think of the history of the first half of the century.

- William C. Kirby

topic: War, Thinking, East, Korean War, Unimaginable

He wanted to know what assurance we could give the American people that we aren't getting the tar licked out of us by the North Korean army. It has never happened to us. It won't happen this time.

- Harry S. Truman

source: United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman), Harry S. Truman (1961). “Harry S. Truman: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 1945-53”

topic: War, Army, People, Korean War

The amphibious landing of U.S. Marines on September 1950 at Inchon, on the west coast of Korea, was one of the most audacious and spectacularly successful amphibious landings in all naval history.

- Bernard Brodie

topic: Successful, Marine, Korea, Korean War

The Korean war has always been an unpopular war among the American people.

- Paul Robeson

topic: War, People, Korean, Korean War

On the other side of every mountain was another mountain.

- George Russell

topic: War, Mountain, Sides, Korean War

When I grew up, in Taiwan, the Korean War was seen as a good war, where America protected Asia. It was sort of an extension of World War II. And it was, of course, the peak of the Cold War. People in Taiwan were generally proAmerican. The Korean War made Japan. And then the Vietnam War made Taiwan. There is some truth to that.

- Ang Lee

topic: War, Japan, America, Korean War, Good War

They were at the wrong place at the wrong time naturally they became heroes

- George Lucas

source: George Lucas (2011). “A New Hope: Star Wars: Episode IV”, p.2, Del Rey

topic: Hero, Brokeback Mountain, Aces, Korean War, Vietnam War

I got called back into the Navy during the Korean War.

- Daniel J. Evans

topic: War, Navy, Korean, Korean War

When I was still in my psychiatric residency training in New York City, I was subjected to the doctor draft of that time, during the early fifties, at the time of the Korean War.

- Robert Jay Lifton

topic: New York, War, Cities, Korean War, Residency

I have one criticism about the Negro troops who fought under my command in the Korean War. They didn't send me enough of them.

- Douglas MacArthur

topic: War, Criticism, Troops, Korean War

As a Korean War Veteran I know too well the troubling nature of war. This is why I will always support a diplomatic answer before military intervention.

- Charles Rangel

source: "A World Without Chemical Weapons" by Rep. Charles Rangel, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 14, 2013.

topic: Military, War, Support, Korean War, Military Intervention

Throughout the 20th century, the Republican Party benefited from a non-interventionist foreign policy. Think of how Eisenhower came in to stop the Korean War. Think of how Nixon was elected to stop the mess in Vietnam.

- Ron Paul

source: The Republicans' First Presidential Candidates Debate, www.nytimes.com. May 3, 2007.

topic: War, Party, Thinking, Korean War

The Korean War has also show quite clearly that in a major conflict manpower is as important as horsepower.

- Aly Khan

topic: War, Important, Korean, Manpower, Horsepower

Get the hell out of my way!

- Ayn Rand

source: Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.2340, Penguin

topic: Strength, Courage, Philosophy, Inspirational Strength, Korean War

As a Korean War Veteran, I know too well the troubling nature of war. This is why I will always support a diplomatic answer before military intervention.

- Charles Rangel

topic: Military, War, Support, Korean War, War Veteran

I remember the Korean War very well. And I remember the soldiers who were POWs who supposedly were "brainwashed," quote, unquote, who gave in, so to speak. And when they came back, they were treated like pariahs and traitors.

- Martin Scorsese

source: Source: www.npr.org

topic: War, Soldier, Korean, Korean War, Pariahs

With a book called 'Keeping Score,' I really did want to write a book about the Korean War, because I felt that it is the least understood war in the American cultural imagination. So I set out with the idea that Americans didn't know much about the Korean War and that I was going to try to fix a tiny bit of that.

- Linda Sue Park

topic: War, Book, Writing, Korean War

People say to us, look, it may well be the case that there are fewer wars and fewer genocides, but surely more people are being killed. But when we look at this, the number of people killed in wars involving a state every year, all the wars, and you can see there's a high point, that's the Korean war, and it keeps on going down and down and down. If you look at the average number of people killed per conflict per year, it goes from 37-thousand in 1950 to just 600 in 2002.

- Andrew Mack

topic: War, Average, Years, Korean War, High Points

It is not widely known that, ever since the end of the Korean War, the United States has spent essentially the same amount of money on defense, in real terms, every single year.

- James Fallows

topic: Real, War, Years, Korean War

I remember when Langston Hughes used to write a column in black newspapers around this character Jesse B. Semple. He always used that as a voice, sometimes in comic ways, of having everyday people's voice come through this common folk hero, who was an ordinary working guy. He would talk about anything from police brutality to the Korean War. Those kinds of expression and identification are no longer prevalent in our popular culture.

- Danny Glover

source: Source: progressive.org

topic: War, Hero, Character, Korean War, Police Brutality

I was drafted during the Korean War.

- Clint Eastwood

topic: Korean War

I had a visceral connection to the period [of Korean War]. By visceral I suppose I mean emotional. But every fiction requires so much that is not that so I did a lot of other research and a lot of thinking, a lot of struggling there.

- Chang-Rae Lee

source: Source: therumpus.net

topic: War, Struggle, Mean, Korean War

As you may recall, Truman was extremely unpopular when he finally left Washington in 1953, thanks largely to the Korean War. Today, however, he is thought to have been a solidly good president, a 'Near Great' even, in the terminology of those surveys of historians they do every now and then.

- Thomas Frank

topic: War, President, May, Korean War, Truman

It will begin with its President taking a simple, firm resolution. The resolution will be: To forego the diversions of politics and to concentrate on the job of ending the Korean war-until that job is honorably done. That job requires a personal trip to Korea. I shall make that trip. Only in that way could I learn how best to serve the American people in the cause of peace. I shall go to Korea.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

source: Campaign speech, Detroit, Mich., 24 Oct. 1952

topic: Jobs, War, Simple, Korean War

My dad was in the Korean War. He got shot seven times. He had seven bullet holes in him. And out of his troop of 35 guys, he was one of nine guys that came back. And when he came back from that he had seven kids in seven years.

- Ryan McGinley

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Dad, War, Kids, Korean War

I wanted to do what Marilyn Monroe did (during the Korean War), when she went and just set up a stage and did a concert for the troops all by herself. It's so amazing seeing that one woman just going somewhere, this beautiful sex kitten, who's basically a pinup, which is what I've always aspired to be.

- Lindsay Lohan

topic: Beautiful, Sex, War, Korean War, Pinup

I'd always wanted to write something about the Korean War because of my heritage. My father lost his brother during the war, and I fictionalized that episode, which was told to me very briefly without much detail.

- Chang-Rae Lee

source: Source: therumpus.net

topic: Brother, Father, War, Korean War

In every major war we have fought in the 19th and 20th centuries. Americans have been asked to pay higher taxes - and nonessential programs have been cut - to support the military effort. Yet during this Iraq war, taxes have been lowered and domestic spending has climbed. In contrast to World War I, World War II, the Korean War and Vietnam, for most Americans this conflict has entailed no economic sacrifice. The only people really sacrificing for this war are the troops and their families.

- Robert Hormats

topic: Military, War, Sacrifice, Korean War

All of my high school male teachers were WWII and/or Korean War veterans. They taught my brothers and me the value of service to our country and reinforced what our dad had shown us about the meaning of service.

- Oliver North

topic: Country, Teacher, Veterans Day, Korean War, War Veteran

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

topic: War, Order, Troops, Korean War, Macarthur

From now on, we're home schooling you. Whatever we don't know, you don't know. When did the Korean War start? I don't know, and neither do you!

- George Lopez

source: "George Lopez". TV Series, m.imdb.com. 2002-2007.

topic: Funny, War, Home, Korean War

I'm sure the most favorite airplane in my career would still be the Sabre F86 cleft wing , which allowed me to be credited with 2 Russian-built Mig-15 destroyed during the Korean War. Where I was in 1953.

- Buzz Aldrin

topic: War, Airplane, Wings, Korean War, Left Wing

I wanted to write about the Korean War, but I had no entry into it that made the kind of sense it needs to make for a novelist.

- Chang-Rae Lee

topic: War, Writing, Novelists, Korean War

In 1953, after the armistice ending the Korean War, South Korea lay in ruins. President Eisenhower was eager to put an end to hostilities that had left his predecessor deeply unpopular, and the war ended in an uneasy stalemate.

- Noah Feldman

topic: War, Korea, President, Uneasy, Korean War

The Philippines was with the U.S. in the Second World War, in the Korean War, in the Vietnam War, and now in the war against terrorism.

- Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

topic: War, Vietnam, World, Korean War

I'd like to see a really good kind of closeted 1950s vampire movies. The war is over, the Korean war is over, we're happy now, a little bit of Cold War paranoia ya know, and then mix it up a little bit. I just think there are so many avenues that you could do that.

- Robert Englund

source: Source: www.ramascreen.com

topic: War, Thinking, Vampire, Korean War, Vampire Movie