Quote

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.

George McGovern

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

George McGovern
Age: 90 †
Born: 1922
Born: July 19
Died: 2012
Died: October 21
Autobiographer
Diplomat
Historian
Peace Activist
Politician
University Teacher
Avon
South Dakota
George Stanley McGovern
George S. McGovern
Deep
Going
Fight
Fighting
Wrong
Peers
War
Guts
Feel
Tough
Watches
Feels
Watch
Thing

More quotes by George McGovern

Image
This dogged, same track approach (by the NCI) is even more astonishing.
George McGovern
Image
I always thought of myself as a good old South Dakota boy who grew up here on the prairie.
George McGovern
Image
It can take greater courage to stand in opposition to the views of your neighbors or nation than to confront an enemy in combat.
George McGovern
Image
Reaganism is not only at odds with the Judeo-Christian heritage, it will not work.
George McGovern
Image
Don't throw away your conscience.
George McGovern
Image
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.
George McGovern
Image
Truth is a habit of integrity, not a strategy of politics.
George McGovern
Image
I would support a Presidential candidate who pledged to take the following steps: ... At the end of the war in the Persian Gulf, press for a comprehensive Middle East settlement and for a 'new world order' based not on Pax Americana but on peace through law with a stronger U.N. and World Court.
George McGovern
Image
We have the resources (to end hunger), we know what has to be done, and it's something that can be achieved at a rather modest cost
George McGovern
Image
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.
George McGovern
Image
Above all, being a Democrat means having compassion for others. ... It means standing up for people who have been kept down.
George McGovern
Image
For 50 years, the Republicans have been accusing the Democrats of being soft on national security.
George McGovern
Image
I didn't know a damned thing about mental illness and neither did anyone around me.
George McGovern
Image
I am 1,000 percent for Tom Eagleton and I have no intention of dropping him from the ticket.
George McGovern
Image
We seem bent upon saving the Vietnamese from Ho Chi Minh, even if we have to kill them and demolish their country to do it....I do not intend to remain silent in the face of what I regard as a policy of madness which, sooner or later, will envelop my son and American youth by the millions for years to come.
George McGovern
Image
It is not patriotic to commit young Americans to war unless our national security clearly requires it.
George McGovern
Image
Somehow politicians have become convinced that negative campaigning pays off in elections.
George McGovern
Image
I make one pledge above all others - to seek and speak the truth with all the resources of mind and spirit I command.
George McGovern
Image
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
Image
Every Senator in this Chamber is partly responsible for sending 50,000 young Americans to an early grave. This Chamber reeks of blood.
George McGovern