It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil,... that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure. -George Mcgovern

 

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil,... that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.


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The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain.

George Mcgovern

Politics is an act of faith; you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public.

George Mcgovern

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?"

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.

George Mcgovern

The longer the title, the less important the job.

George Mcgovern