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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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The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of ones country deep enough to call her to a higher plain. – George McGovern

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Im fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in. – George McGovern

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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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Will… the threat of common extermination continue?… Must children receive the arms race from us as a necessary inheritance? – Pope John Paul II, speech at the UN, 1979

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A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over… is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Theres no question that jihad historically means war. – Pat Robertson

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There is no morality in war. Morality is the privilege of those judging from the distance. War is only death and destruction. – John Cory

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