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War Quotes by George McGovern
- It would be a good time to replace the drug war with something more constructive. The cure offered the drug war today has probably been…
- It doesn t require any particular bravery to stand on the floor of the Senate and urge our boys in Vietnam to fight harder and…
- Im sick and tired of old men sitting around in air conditioned rooms here in Washington, dreaming up wars for young men to die in.
- I would support a Presidential candidate who pledged to take the following steps: ... At the end of the war in the Persian Gulf, press…
- From secrecy and deception in high places; come home, America. From military spending so wasteful that it weakens our nation; come home, America. From the…
- People didn't have the political guts to stand up against an American war.
- I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.
- It is not patriotic to commit young Americans to war unless our national security clearly requires it.
- The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - a…
- I would not plan to base my campaign primarily on opposition to the war in the Persian Gulf.
- There is a strong tendency in the United States to rally round the flag and their troops, no matter how mistaken the war.
- When I was a youngster growing up in South Dakota, we never referred to the national debt, it was always referred to as the war…
- I did frequently refer to my war record in World War II, but not in any flamboyant way.
- I thought the Vietnam war was an utter, unmitigated disaster, so it was very hard for me to say anything good about it.
- I was the guy who was constantly speaking out against the Vietnam War. I have no regrets about that.
- It's a tough thing, to know what to do about a war that deep in your gut you feel is wrong and yet watch your…
- When I was in the war, I was lucky that I was in a plane and never saw the carnage close-up.
- The truth is that I oppose the Iraq war, just as I opposed the Vietnam War, because these two conflicts have weakened the U.S. and…
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