Don't throw away your conscience.
More Quotes from George McGovern:
The whole campaign was a tragic case of mistaken identity.George McGovern
I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.
George McGovern
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
It doesn't require any particular bravery to stand on the floor of the Senate and urge our boys in Vietnam to fight harder, and if this war mushrooms into a major conflict and a hundred thousand young Americans are killed, it won't be U. S. Senators who die. It will be American soldiers who are too young to qualify for the senate.
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
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
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Conscience QuotesA book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.
Charles Baudelaire
It is not the crook in modern business that we fear, but the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.
Owen D. Young
Even nowadays a man can't step up and kill a woman without feeling just a bit unchivalrous.
Robert Benchley