"It's a tough thing, to know what to do about a war that deep in your gut you feel is wrong and yet watch your peers going off to fight in that war."
-George McGovern
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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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"There is a strong tendency in the United States to rally round the flag and their troops, no matter how mistaken the war."
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"I thought the Vietnam war was an utter, unmitigated disaster, so it was very hard for me to say anything good about it."
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"It is not patriotic to commit young Americans to war unless our national security clearly requires it."
-George McGovern
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"I was the guy who was constantly speaking out against the Vietnam War. I have no regrets about that."
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"I did frequently refer to my war record in World War II, but not in any flamboyant way."
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"Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is."
-Hans Urs von Balthasar
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"At the end of the day, you know, love does not happen between two perfect people as much as we would wish."
-Hillary Clinton
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"Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory."
-Milan Kundera
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"I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump."
-Zora Neale Hurston
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"A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair."
-Abraham Joshua Heschel
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"The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death."
-E. M. Forster
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