Indochina quotes

Of those four winters which I passed in Indo-China opium has left the happiest memory.

- (Henry) Graham Greene
  The Quiet  American, introduction.

To those who charge that liberalism has been tried and found wanting, I answer that the failure is not in the idea but in the course of recent history. The New Deal was ended by World War II. The New Frontier was closed by Berlin and Cuba even before it was opened. And the Great Society lost its greatness in the jungles of Indochina.

- George S(tanley) McGovern
  Lecture at Oxford University, 21  Jan.