George Stanley McGovern Famous Quotes
"The trouble was, all people saw on television were a few of my outspoken supporters out front and they came away thinking that was me."
"You know, sometimes, when they say you're ahead of your time, it's just a polite way of saying you have a real bad sense of timing."
The whole campaign was a tragic case of mistaken identity.
"To those who charge that liberalism has been tried and found wanting, I answer that the failure is not in the idea, but in the course of recent history. The New Deal was ended by World War II. The New Frontier was closed by Berlin and Cuba almost before it was opened. And the Great Society lost its greatness in the jungles of Indochina."
"When people ask if the United States can afford to place on trial the president, if the system can stand impeachment, my answer is, Can we stand anything else"
"The longer the title, the less important the job."
George Stanley McGovern Quotations
Politics is applesauce.
Will Rogers
The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.
Sri da Avabhas
The world is but a canvas to the imagination.
Henry David Thoreau
You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.
Norman Douglas
"Not merely an absence of noise, Real Silence begins when a reasonable being withdraws from the noise in order to find peace and order in his inner sanctuary."
Peter Minard
"Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness."
Athenus
"The tendancy of liberals is to create bodies of men and women-of all classes-detached from tradition, alienated from religion, and susceptible to mass suggestion-mob rule. And a mob will be no less a mob if it is well fed, well clothed, well housed, and well disciplined."
George Eliot
"He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home."
Johann von Goethe
"Gradualness, gradualness, and gradualness. From the very beginning of your work, school yourself to severe gradualness in the accumulation of knowledge."
Ivon Petrovich Pavlov
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
Robert Frost