"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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"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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"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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"As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other."
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"I used to wonder if it was God's plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world."
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"Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace."
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