Quotes by George McGovern

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

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"The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain."

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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."

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"It is not patriotic to commit young Americans to war unless our national security clearly requires it."

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