Quote by George McGovern
Its a tough thing, to know what to do about a war that deep in you

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

Other quotes by George McGovern

I make one pledge above all others – to seek and speak the truth with all the resources of mind and spirit I command. – George McGovern

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Truth
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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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Knowledge
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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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War
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War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason. – James Madison

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War

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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War

War is not civilized. – Talib Kweli

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War

When I was in Pulp, I actively did more TV stuff because that was during the Great Britpop Wars, and it seemed important to prove that indie people could speak. That war doesnt exist anymore. – Jarvis Cocker

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War

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Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Miscellaneous

I dont pay to have my dirty work done for me. I do it myself. – Ted Nugent

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work

I think theres something quite interesting about the almost tragic quality of a lot of overwrought prose, because it has a much more self-conscious awareness of its own failure to touch the real. – China Mieville

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Failure

Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions. – Gerald Brenan

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Wisdom