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George McGovern Quotes: 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.
         

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.


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



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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.



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





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