George McGovern

I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in. ↗

— George McGovern

#die #dreaming #ears #fed #fed up

But it is hazardous and, I believe, counterproductive to become frozen in time by an obsession with past wrongs and errors. ↗

— George McGovern

#recovery #death

Politics is an act of faith; you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public. ↗

— George McGovern

#capacity #confidence #faith #intellectual #kind

You know, sometimes, when they say you're ahead of your time, it's just a polite way of saying you have a real bad sense of timing. ↗

— George McGovern

#bad #just #know #our time #polite

I am fed up with a system which busts the pot smoker and lets the big dope racketeer go free. ↗

— George McGovern

#big #dope #fed #fed up #free

Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.' ↗

— George McGovern

#empathy #injunction #love #neighbor #old

I always thought of myself as a moderate liberal, a fighter for peace and justice. I never thought of myself as being all that far out. ↗

— George McGovern

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The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation. ↗

— George McGovern

#away #cancer #center #cruelest #disaster

I make one pledge above all others - to seek and speak the truth with all the resources of mind and spirit I command. ↗

— George McGovern

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No man should advocate a course in private that he's ashamed to admit in public. ↗

— George McGovern

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