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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

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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

#capacity #confidence #faith #intellectual #kind

No man should advocate a course in private that he's ashamed to admit in public. ↗

— George McGovern

#advocate #ashamed #course #man #private

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. ↗

— George McGovern

#bad #just #know #our time #polite

I am fed up with a system which busts the pot smoker and lets the big dope racketeer go free. ↗

— George McGovern

#big #dope #fed #fed up #free

Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.' ↗

— George McGovern

#empathy #injunction #love #neighbor #old

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

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I make one pledge above all others - to seek and speak the truth with all the resources of mind and spirit I command. ↗

— George McGovern

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I think the country's getting disgusted with Washington partly because of the decline of civility in government. ↗

— George McGovern

#civility #country #decline #disgusted #getting

At least I have precluded the possibility of peaking too early. ↗

— George McGovern

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