"I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in."
-George McGovern
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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.“
-George McGovern
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"I thought the Vietnam war was an utter, unmitigated disaster, so it was very hard for me to say anything good about it."
-George McGovern
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"It is not patriotic to commit young Americans to war unless our national security clearly requires it."
-George McGovern
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"I was the guy who was constantly speaking out against the Vietnam War. I have no regrets about that."
-George McGovern
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"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 debt because it stemmed from World War I."
-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."
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