"I did frequently refer to my war record in World War II, but not in any flamboyant way." ― George McGovern Topic(s): War More From George McGovern "There is a strong tendency in the United States to rally round the flag and their troops, no matter how mistaken the war." "Politics is an act of faith; you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public." "I seek to call America home to those principles that gave us birth." More In War "Iraq made commitments after the Gulf War to completely dismantle all weapons of mass destruction, and unfortunately, Iraq has not lived up to its agreement."― Barbara Boxer "Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war."― Donald Trump "Four years of world war, at a cost in human suffering which our minds are mercifully too limited to imagine, led to the very clear realization that international anarchy must be abandoned if civilization was to survive."― Arthur Henderson