"I’m fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in." ― George McGovern Topic(s): Men 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." "I was the guy who was constantly speaking out against the Vietnam War. I have no regrets about that." "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." More In Men "By indignities men come to dignities."― Francis Bacon "I am very proud of this work because it is more about the meaning of the Easter Rising and its relationship to what this whole century has been about, people liberating themselves, freeing themselves."― Leon Uris "I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can’t be done."― Henry Ford