George McGovern Famous Quotes
The Establishment center ... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster -- a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.
"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."
I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.
George McGovern Quotations
"To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread. We were just a family. In a family even exaggerations make perfect sense."
John Irving
Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.
Joseph Wood Krutch
"A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles."
Washington Irving
"Who does not see that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other religions, may establish with the same ease any particular sect of Christians, in exclusion of all other sects"
James Madison
"The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mood of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change for happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up."
Charles Langbridge Morgan
So many men so many questions.
Terence
"Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it. Or something. I dunno, I was only half listening. Becca said it, anyway. Ask her."
M Scott Peck
A white wall is the fool's paper.
French Proverb
"Its not foresight or hindsight we need. We need sight, plain and simple. We need to see what is right in front of us."
Real Live Preacher
This is courage in a man to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.
Euripides