Quotes by : George McGovern

The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep....

When I was a youngster growing up in South Dakota, we never referred to the national debt, it was always....

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

I always thought of myself as a moderate liberal, a fighter for peace and justice. I never thought of....

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

The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is....

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

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

I think the country's getting disgusted with Washington partly because of the decline of civility in....