Hanoi Hannah famous quotes

03-25-2025

Nothing is more confused than to be ordered into a war to die or to be maimed for life without the faintest idea of what's going on.
-- Hanoi Hannah

#Confused #War #Ideas
I put my heart in my work.
-- Hanoi Hannah

#Heart #My Heart
Because our fight has been for such a long time we are isolated from the world, even after reconstruction we don't have much attention from people outside.
-- Hanoi Hannah

#Fighting #Long #People
How are you, G.I. Joe? It seems to me that most of you are poorly informed about the going of the war, to say nothing about a correct explanation of your presence over here. Nothing is more confused than to be ordered into a war to die.
-- Hanoi Hannah

#Confused #War #Explanation
Well, we think the broadcasts did have some effect, because we see the antiwar movement in the U.S. building up, growing and so we think that our broadcast is a support to this antiwar movement.
-- Hanoi Hannah

#Thinking #Support #Movement
We asked Jane Fonda if she would like to meet American pilots in Hanoi, but she refused, she didn't want to.
-- Hanoi Hannah

#Want #Pilots #Hanoi
There's a policy now of opening the doors to the outside world.
-- Hanoi Hannah

#Doors #World #Opening
Sometimes my colleagues joke and call me Hannah.
-- Hanoi Hannah

#Sometimes #Call Me #Colleagues
Our program for American GIs can be heard at 1630 hours.
-- Hanoi Hannah

#Gis #Hours #Program
It wasn't a new idea. During the war against the French we had this kind of broadcast for the French soldiers.
-- Hanoi Hannah

#War #Ideas #Soldier
I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh.
-- Hanoi Hannah

#Liberty #Tradition #Abraham
I had to do something for the country.
-- Hanoi Hannah

#Country
Because the GIs were sent massively to South Vietnam, maybe it's a good idea to have a broadcast for them.
-- Hanoi Hannah

#Ideas #Vietnam #Gis
And we broadcast tapes sent to us from Americans against the war. These were most effective I believe.
-- Hanoi Hannah

#War #Believe #Tape
Americans are xenophobic, they will believe their own people rather than the adversary, even a friendly enemy voice.
-- Hanoi Hannah

#Believe #Voice #People
American GIs don't fight this unjust immoral and illegal war of Johnson's.
-- Hanoi Hannah

#War #Fighting #Unjust
I would like to see America some day.
-- Hanoi Hannah

#America

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