George McGovern
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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.” -George McGovern
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“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
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“I’ve come to realize that protecting freedom of choice in our everyday lives is essential to maintaining a healthy civil society.” -George McGovern
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“Politics is an act of faith you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public.” -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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“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’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 wish I had known more firsthand about the concerns and problems of American businesspeople while I was a U.S. senator and later a presidential nominee. That knowledge would have made me a better legislator and a more worthy aspirant to the White House.” -George McGovern
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“I hope someday we will be able to proclaim that we have banished hunger in the United States, and that we’ve been able to bring nutrition and health to the whole world.” -George McGovern
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“From secrecy and deception in high places, come home, America. From military spending so wasteful that it weakens our nation, come home, America.” -George McGovern
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“I think it was my study of history that convinced me that the Democratic Party was more on the side of the average American.” -George McGovern
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“I hope someday we will be able to proclaim that we have banished hunger in the United States, and that we’ve been able to bring nutrition and health to the whole world.” -George McGovern
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“I think the country’s getting disgusted with Washington partly because of the decline of civility in government.” -George McGovern
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“I’ve come to realize that protecting freedom of choice in our everyday lives is essential to maintaining a healthy civil society.” -George McGovern
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“Politics is an act of faith you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public.” -George McGovern
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