George McGovern Quotes About War

• 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.

• 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

• 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

• El centro del establishment... nos ha llevado a la guerra más estúpida y cruel de toda la historia. Esa guerra es un desastre moral y político, un terrible cáncer que corroe el alma de nuestra nación.

  George McGovern

  War, Cancer, Political

• 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.

• 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

• The truth is that I oppose the Iraq war, just as I opposed the Vietnam War, because these two conflicts have weakened the U.S. and diminished our standing in the world and our national security.

  George McGovern

  War, Two, Iraq

  "George McGovern: Cheney is wrong about me, wrong about war". www.latimes.com. April 24, 2007.

• Apoyaría a un candidato presidencial que se comprometiera a tomar las siguientes medidas: ... Al final de la guerra del Golfo Pérsico, presionar para que se llegue a un acuerdo global en Oriente Medio y para que se establezca un "nuevo orden mundial" basado no en la Pax Americana, sino en la paz a través de la ley, con una ONU y un Tribunal Mundial más fuertes.

  George McGovern

  Guerra, orden, ley

• Sería un buen momento para sustituir la guerra contra las drogas por algo más constructivo. La cura que ofrece hoy la guerra contra las drogas ha sido probablemente más perjudicial y ha hecho más daño que la enfermedad.

  George McGovern

  War, Drug, Would Be

• 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

• 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

  Strong, War, United States

• 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

  Growing Up, War, Debt

  "George McGovern: Barack Obama, Democrats Need a Backbone". Interview with Kira Zalan, www.usnews.com. December 2, 2011.

• When I was in the war, I was lucky that I was in a plane and never saw the carnage close-up.

  George McGovern

  War, Lucky, Saws

• I would not plan to base my campaign primarily on opposition to the war in the Persian Gulf.

  George McGovern

  War, Campaigns, Persian

  "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.

• A los que afirman que el liberalismo se ha probado y ha fracasado, les respondo que el fracaso no está en la idea, sino en el curso de la historia reciente. La Segunda Guerra Mundial puso fin al New Deal. La Nueva Frontera se cerró con Berlín y Cuba casi antes de abrirse. Y la Gran Sociedad perdió su grandeza en las selvas de Indochina.

  George McGovern

  Military, War, Failure

  1973 Lecture at Oxford University, 21 Jan.

• I always thought of myself as a good old South Dakota boy who grew up here on the prairie. My dad was a Methodist minister. I went off to war. I have been married to the same woman forever. I'm what a normal, healthy, ideal American should be like.

  George McGovern

  Dad, War, Boys

  "George McGovern's Legacy: From Liberalism to Feeding the Hungry" by Matthew Larotonda, abcnews.go.com. October 21, 2012.

• I don't think the American people had a clear picture of either Nixon or me. I think they thought that Nixon was a strong, decisive, tough-minded guy and that I was an idealist and antiwar guy who might not attach enough significance to the security of the country. The truth is, I was the guy with the war record, and my opposition to Vietnam was because I was interested in the nation's well-being.

  George McGovern

  País, Fuerte, Guerra

• I did frequently refer to my war record in World War II, but not in any flamboyant way.

  George McGovern

  Guerra, Récords, Mundo

• I thought the Vietnam war was an utter, unmitigated disaster, so it was very hard for me to say anything good about it.

  George McGovern

  War, Say Anything, Vietnam

• I was the guy who was constantly speaking out against the Vietnam War. I have no regrets about that.

  George McGovern

  Regret, War, Guy

• It's 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

  War, Fighting, Watches

• People didn't have the political guts to stand up against an American war.

  George McGovern

  War, People, Political

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