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

Categorized in : Time Brother Land

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

George McGovern

military dream peace

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

military war sex

The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain.

George McGovern

memorial-day love country

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

dazzle crowds masters

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

George McGovern

compassion mean people

No man should advocate a course in private that he's ashamed to admit in public.

George McGovern

advocating should men

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

tired dream war

Pay attention to the hungry, both in this country and around the world. Pay attention to the poor. Pay attention to our responsibilities for world peace. We are our brother's keeper.

George McGovern

brother responsibility country

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

dream inspirational country

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

fighting military war

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

lines hard-work land

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

president hands years

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

intelligent men war

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

George McGovern

patriotic young war

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

I am fed up with a system which busts the pot smoker and lets the big dope racketeer go free.

George McGovern

marijuana dope pot

It can take greater courage to stand in opposition to the views of your neighbors or nation than to confront an enemy in combat.

George McGovern

neighbor views enemy

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

debt growing-up war

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

George McGovern

principles home america

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

George McGovern

strategy truth-is integrity