![]() This support is the heartbeat of the war.Īnd it is a war of unparalleled brutality. But trained men and supplies, orders and arms, flow in a constant stream from north to south. ![]() Of course, some of the people of South Viet-Nam are participating in attack on their own government. The first reality is that North Viet-Nam has attacked the independent nation of South Viet-Nam. The world as it is in Asia is not a serene or peaceful place. But we must deal with the world as it is, if it is ever to be as we wish. Yet the infirmities of man are such that force must often precede reason, and the waste of war, the works of peace. This kind of world will never be built by bombs or bullets. And only in such a world will our own freedom be finally secure. We fight because we must fight if we are to live in a world where every country can shape its own destiny. Why must this Nation hazard its ease, and its interest, and its power for the sake of a people so far away? And some 400 young men, born into an America that is bursting with opportunity and promise, have ended their lives on Viet-Nam’s steaming soil. The war is dirty and brutal and difficult. We have no territory there, nor do we seek any. Viet-Nam is far away from this quiet campus. 1 It is the principle for which our sons fight tonight in the jungles of Viet-Nam. This is the principle for which our ancestors fought in the valleys of Pennsylvania. Tonight Americans and Asians are dying for a world where each people may choose its own path to change. Woolley, The American Presidency Project. Available online from Gerhard Peters and John T. Source: Address at Johns Hopkins University: “Peace Without Conquest,” April 7, 1965, Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B.
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