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Letter "G" » George McGovern Quotes
«I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.»
Author: George McGovern
(Politician)
| About:
War
| Keywords:
died young, Die in, dreaming, ears, Fed, fed up, feed in, up to, wars
«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»
Author: George McGovern
(Politician)
| About:
Patriotism
| Keywords:
acceptance, official, One Country, patriotism, plain, policy
«I am fed up with a system which busts the pot smoker and lets the big dope racketeer go free»
«The longer the title, the less important the job.»
«It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil,... that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.»
Author: George McGovern
(Politician)
| About:
Politicians,
University
| Keywords:
aspects, opportunist, opportunists, prescribe, terribly, untrue
«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.»
Author: George McGovern
(Politician)
| About:
History,
War
| Keywords:
eating away, establishment, Political history, stupidest, The Establishment
«No man should advocate a course in private that he's ashamed to admit in public.»
Author: George McGovern
(Politician)
«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.»
«Politics is an act of faith; you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public.»
«that you only have a realistic hope of ending poverty if you can somehow curb the destruction and waste and the devastation of war.»
Author: George McGovern
(Politician)
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