Maxwell D. Taylor

Give me three days and three nights of hard fighting, and you will be relieved.

— Maxwell D. Taylor

We all have a share in it, and none of it is good. There are no heroes, just bums. I include myself in that.

— Maxwell D. Taylor

First, we didn't know ourselves. We thought we were going into another Korean war, but this was a different country. Secondly, we didn't know our South Vietnamese allies. We never understood them, and that was another surprise. And we knew even less about North Vietnam. Who was Ho Chi Minh? Nobody really knew. So, until we know the enemy and know our allies and know ourselves, we'd better keep out of this dirty kind of business. It's very dangerous.

— Maxwell D. Taylor