Famous George Mcgovern Quotations

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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."
by George McGovern
"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 if this war mushrooms into a major conflict and a hundred thousand young Americans are killed, it won't be U. S. Senators who die. It will be American soldiers who are too young to qualify for the senate."
by George McGovern
"I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in."
by George McGovern
"The longer the title, the less important the job."
by George Stanley McGovern
"The trouble was, all people saw on television were a few of my outspoken supporters out front and they came away thinking that was me."
by George Stanley McGovern
"The whole campaign was a tragic case of mistaken identity."
by George Stanley McGovern
"To those who charge that liberalism has been tried and found wanting, I answer that the failure is not in the idea, but in the course of recent history. The New Deal was ended by World War II. The New Frontier was closed by Berlin and Cuba almost before it was opened. And the Great Society lost its greatness in the jungles of Indochina."
by George Stanley McGovern
"When people ask if the United States can afford to place on trial the president, if the system can stand impeachment, my answer is, Can we stand anything else"
by George Stanley McGovern
"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."
by George Stanley McGovern
"No man should advocate a course in private that he's ashamed to admit in public."
by George McGovern
"[They are] intolerant, extremist, ideologues."
by George McGovern


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