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When I was a youngster growing up in South Dakota, we never referr

When I was a youngster growing up in South Dakota, we never referred to the national debt, it was always referred to as the war debt because it stemmed from World War I. – 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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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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Everything, everything in war is barbaric… But the worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individually they would revolt with their whole being. – Ellen Key

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Studies by Medical Corps psychiatrists of combat fatigue cases… found that fear of killing, rather than fear of being killed, was the most common cause of battle failure, and that fear of failure ran a strong second. – S.L.A. Marshall

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This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room. – Virginia Woolf

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Accursed be he that first invented war. – Christopher Marlowe

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We love the precepts for the teachers sake. – George Farquhar

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Our lives as we lead them as passed on to others, whether in physical or mental forms, tingeing all future lives together. This should be enough for one who lives for truth and service to his fellow passengers on the way. – Luther Burbank

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