Quote by George McGovern
People didnt have the political guts to stand up against an Americ

People didnt have the political guts to stand up against an American war. – 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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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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Peace
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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 am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell. – William Tecumseh Sherman

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

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War

War can be so impersonal yet when we put a name, a face, a place and match it to families, then war is not impersonal. – Dennis Kucinich

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War

Our strategy is one of preventing war by making it self-evident to our enemies that theyre going to get their clocks cleaned if they start one. – John W. Vessey, Jr.

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War

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Marriage to Fernando offered shelter and security, but the shackle was the price Id pay. – Esther Williams

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Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you are as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it? – Brian Kernighan

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I dont have expectations. Expectations in your life just lead to giant disappointments. – Michael Landon

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Our ideal is to make her ever stronger and better and finer, because in that way alone, as we believe, can she be of the greatest service to the worlds peace and to the welfare of mankind. – Henry Cabot Lodge

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