Best quotes by George McGovern on War

Checkout quotes by George McGovern on War

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

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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.

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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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• ‟ I did frequently refer to my war record in World War II, but not in any flamboyant way.

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• ‟ I was the guy who was constantly speaking out against the Vietnam War. I have no regrets about that.

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• ‟ I would not plan to base my campaign primarily on opposition to the war in the Persian Gulf.

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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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• ‟ When I was in the war, I was lucky that I was in a plane and never saw the carnage close-up.

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• ‟ 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 diminished our standing in the world and our national security.

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• ‟ There is a strong tendency in the United States to rally round the flag and their troops, no matter how mistaken the war.

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• ‟ 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 peers going off to fight in that war.

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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.

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• ‟ People didn't have the political guts to stand up against an American war.

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