"When I was in the war, I was lucky that I was in a plane and never saw the carnage close-up."
― George McGovern
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War
― George McGovern
More From George McGovern
- "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."
- "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."
- "I’ve come to realize that protecting freedom of choice in our everyday lives is essential to maintaining a healthy civil society."
More In War
- "There’s many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell."― William Tecumseh Sherman
- "When you try to find funding for a VVA function, it doesn’t seem like it’s any trouble at all. People come out of the woodwork with their money to help out because we went over and fought a war."― R. Lee Ermey
- "The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost."― Maya Lin