Quotes of George McGovern - somelinesforyou

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

- George McGovern

“ The longer the title, the less important the job. ”

- George 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. ”

- George McGovern

“ 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. ”

- George 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. ”

- George McGovern

“ 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. ”

- George McGovern

“ No man should advocate a course in private that he's ashamed to admit in public. ”

- George McGovern

“ The whole campaign was a tragic case of mistaken identity. ”

- George McGovern

“ I am 1,000 percent for Tom Eagleton and I have no intention of dropping him from the ticket. ”

- George McGovern

“ There'll be no criticism of anybody that wants to jump out. I'll take you close to the field. All you have to do is jump out and pull the rip cord. ”

- George McGovern

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

- George McGovern

“ 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. ”

- George McGovern

“ 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. ”

- George McGovern

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

- George McGovern

“ The whole campaign was a tragic case of mistaken identity. ”

- George McGovern

“ I am 1,000 percent for Tom Eagleton and I have no intention of dropping him from the ticket. ”

- George 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. ”

- 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… ”

- George McGovern

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

- George McGovern

“ No man should advocate a course in private that he's ashamed to admit in public. ”

- George 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. ”

- George McGovern

“ This is an area where we ought to begin using the funds that Congress has authorized and appropriated for this purpose instead of leaving those funds lying on the table. ”

- George McGovern

“ No man should advocate a course in private that he's ashamed to admit in public. ”

- George McGovern

“ 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. ”

- George McGovern

“ The longer the title, the less important the job. ”

- George McGovern

“ The whole campaign was a tragic case of mistaken identity. ”

- George McGovern

“ No man should advocate a course in private that he's ashamed to admit in public. ”

- George McGovern

“ 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. ”

- George McGovern

“ 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

“ No man should advocate a course in private that he's ashamed to admit in public. ”

- George McGovern
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