How do you ask a man to be the last man to die in Vietnam? How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?

John Kerry

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Topic

Vietnam War

Speaker

John Kerry

Statement Type

Question

Language

English

Time

1971 1970s 20th century

Occupation

Politician

From

United States

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Citation

Kerry, John. Statement to Senate Foreign Relations Committee. United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations meeting. 22 Apr. 1971, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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A society based on the letter of the law and never reaching any higher fails to take advantage of the full range of human possibilities. The letter of the law is too cold and formal to have a beneficial influence on society. Whenever the tissue of life is woven of legalistic relationships, this creates an atmosphere of spiritual mediocrity that paralyzes man’s noblest impulses.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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Topic
Legalism Laws of physics
Speaker
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Medium
Speech
Genre
Commencement address
Language
English
Time
1978 1970s 20th century
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Citation

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander I. "A World Split Apart." Commencement cermony. 8 June 1978, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.

Another quote about Vietnam War

So they put a rifle in my hand
Sent me off to a foreign land
To go and kill the yellow man
Born in the U. S. A.

Bruce Springsteen

Born in the U.S.A

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Vietnam War
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Bruce Springsteen
Source
Born in the U.S.A Born in the U.S.A (album)
Medium
Song
Genre
Rock music
Language
English
Time
1984 1980s 20th century
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Citation

Springsteen, Bruce. "Born in the U.S.A." Born in the U.S.A. Columbia Records, 1984.

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Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date.

William Shakespeare

Shakespeare's Sonnets

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Summer The ephemeral Seasons

Author

William Shakespeare
Source
Sonnet 18 Shakespeare's Sonnets
Medium
Sonnet Poem
Statement Type
Metaphor, analogy and simile Question
Language
English
Time
1609 1600s 17th century
Era
European Renaissance
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Original Citation

Shakespeare, William. Shake-speares Sonnets. London: Thomas Thorpe, 1609, sonnet 18, I. 1.

Current Citation

Shakespeare, William. "The Sonnets." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, sonnet 18.