George McGovern Quotes

• I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.

  George McGovern

  Dream, Peace, Military

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• From secrecy and deception in high places; come home, America. From military spending so wasteful that it weakens our nation; come home, America. From the entrenchment of special privileges in tax favoritism; from the waste of idle lands to the joy of useful labor; from the prejudice based on race and sex; from the loneliness of the aging poor and the despair of the neglected sick - come home, America.

  George McGovern

  Sex, Military, War

  George McGovern (2004). “The Essential America: Our Founders and the Liberal Tradition”, p.166, Simon and Schuster

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• El patriotismo más elevado no es una aceptación ciega de la política oficial, sino un amor a la patria lo suficientemente profundo como para llamarla a un plano superior.

  George McGovern

  Love, Country, Memorial Day

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• Presta atención a los hambrientos, tanto en este país como en el resto del mundo. Presta atención a los pobres. Presta atención a nuestras responsabilidades por la paz mundial. Somos los guardianes de nuestro hermano.

  George McGovern

  Country, Brother, Responsibility

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• It's possible to dazzle a crowd if you really work at it. But that is no qualification for leadership. Hitler was a master of crowds.

  George McGovern

  Crowds, Dazzle, Masters

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• And this is the time. It is the time for this land to become again a witness to the world for what is noble and just in human affairs. It is the time to live more with faith and less with fear- with an abiding confidence that can sweep away the strongest barriers between us and teach us that we truly are brothers and sisters.

  George McGovern

  Brother, Time, Land

  George McGovern (2004). “The Essential America: Our Founders and the Liberal Tradition”, p.165, Simon and Schuster

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• Ningún hombre debería defender en privado algo que le avergüenza admitir en público.

  George McGovern

  Men, Advocating, Should

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• Above all, being a Democrat means having compassion for others. ... It means standing up for people who have been kept down.

  George McGovern

  Media, Compasión, Gente

  "What It Means to Be a Democrat". Book by George McGovern, www.politico.com. 2011.

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• Truth is a habit of integrity, not a strategy of politics.

  George McGovern

  Integrity, Strategy, Truth Is

  George Stanley McGovern (1974). “An American Journey: The Presidential Campaign Speeches of George McGovern”, New York : Random House

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• Im sick and tired of old men sitting around in air conditioned rooms here in Washington, dreaming up wars for young men to die in.

  George McGovern

  Dream, War, Tired

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• It doesn t require any particular bravery to stand on the floor of the Senate and urge our boys in Vietnam to fight harder and if this war mushrooms into a major conflict and a hundred thousand young Americans are killed it won t be U.S. Senators who die. It will be American soldiers who are too young to qualify for the Senate.

  George McGovern

  Militar, Guerra, Lucha

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• Come home to the affirmation that we have a dream. Come home to the conviction that we can move our country forward. Come home to the belief that we can seek a newer world. And let us be joyful in the homecoming.

  George McGovern

  Inspirational, Dream, Country

  George McGovern (2004). “The Essential America: Our Founders and the Liberal Tradition”, p.166, Simon and Schuster

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• If we are willing to concede the President dictatorial authority where we happen to agree with him, as liberals have tended to do over the years, we will have little chance of tying his hands when we do not....You will see why many of us in the Congress understand how Dr. Frankenstein must have felt when his creation ran amok.

  George McGovern

  Hands, Years, President

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• And above all, above all, honest work must be rewarded by a fair and just tax system. The tax system today does not reward hard work: it penalizes it. Inherited or invested wealth frequently multiplies itself while paying no taxes at all. But wages on the assembly line or in farming the land, these hard-earned dollars are taxed to the very last penny.

  George McGovern

  Hard Work, Land, Lines

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• It is a modern tragedy that one of the Soviet Union's most intelligent and realistic leaders has served and died during the administration of the most ill-informed and dangerous man ever to occupy the White House.

  George McGovern

  Guerra, Inteligente, Hombres

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• For a generation and more, the government has sought to meet our needs by multiplying its bureaucracy. Washington has taken too much in taxes from Main Street, and Main Street has received too little in return. It is not necessary to centralize power in order to solve our problems.

  George McGovern

  Taken, Government, Order

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• Never say anything that, down inside, you think is wrong.

  George McGovern

  Thinking, Say Anything

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• So, I think that's the centerpiece of morality: Don't lie. But to do that, you have to go a step further and find out what the truth is.

  George McGovern

  Truth, Lying, Thinking

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• Estoy harto de un sistema que detiene al fumador de marihuana y deja libre al gran traficante.

  George McGovern

  Marijuana, Dope, Pot

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

  George McGovern

  War, Patriotic, Young

  "As A New War Is Raging, Opposing Voices From The Past Sound Out Again; Mcgovern: 'I Am Ready' To Run" by Fox Butterfield, www.nytimes.com. January 25, 1991.

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• I seek to call America home to those principles that gave us birth.

  George McGovern

  Home, America, Principles

  George Stanley McGovern, Shirley MacLaine (1972). “McGovern: the man and his beliefs”

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• Every Senator in this Chamber is partly responsible for sending 50,000 young Americans to an early grave. This Chamber reeks of blood.

  George McGovern

  Blood, Responsible, Graves

  George Stanley McGovern (1977). “Grassroots: the autobiography of George McGovern”, Random House (NY)

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• Well, we ought to be stirred, even to tears, by society's ills.

  George McGovern

  Tears, Wells, Ought

  George McGovern (2011). “What It Means to Be a Democrat”, p.13, Penguin

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• Every program that ever helped working people, from rural electrification to Medicare, was enacted by liberals over the opposition of conservatives. When people tell me they don't like liberals, I ask, "Do you like Social Security? If so, then shut up!"

  George McGovern

  People, Shut Up, Social

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• I am a liberal and always have been - just not the wild-eyed character the Republicans made me out to be.

  George McGovern

  Character, Republican, Made

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