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Quote by George McGovern
There is a strong tendency in the United States to rally round the

There is a strong tendency in the United States to rally round the flag and their troops, no matter how mistaken the war. – 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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George McGovern
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I was the guy who was constantly speaking out against the Vietnam War. I have no regrets about that. – George McGovern

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War
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George McGovern
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When I was in the war, I was lucky that I was in a plane and never saw the carnage close-up. – George McGovern

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There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war. – Reinhold Niebuhr

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If we fight a war and win it with H-bombs, what history will remember is not the ideals we were fighting for but the methods we used to accomplish them. These methods will be compared to the warfare of Genghis Khan who ruthlessly killed every last inhabitant of Persia. – Hans A. Bethe

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What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble? – Benjamin Spock

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War is just a racket… I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else. – Smedley Butler

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Fashion, which elevates the bad to the level of the good, subsqequently turns its back on bad and good alike. – Eric Bently

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But you see, thats the gilded prison of fashion. Were riding in private jets, and meantime I was so incredibly, painfully sad and lonely. – Janice Dickinson

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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us. – Rainer Maria Rilke

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