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Quote by George McGovern
It is not patriotic to commit young Americans to war unless our na

It is not patriotic to commit young Americans to war unless our national security clearly requires it. – George McGovern

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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. – George McGovern

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Truth
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George McGovern
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Its 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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War
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It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell. – William Tecumseh Sherman

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War

Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

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War

The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people. – Ezra Pound

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After every major conflict – World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, the fall of the Soviet Union – what happened was that we ultimately hollowed out the force, largely by doing deep across-the-board cuts. – Leon Panetta

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War

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I think the one thing this picture shows thats new is the psychological disproportion of the kids demands on the parents. Parents are often at fault, but the kids have some work to do, too. – James Dean

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If property had simply pleasures, we could stand it; but its duties make it unbearable. In the interest of the rich we must get rid of it. – Oscar Wilde

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Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can befall one. – Miguel de Cervantes

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