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Disaster Soul War

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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We thought it would be great to see if you could put pop music back into musical theater.

- Neil Tennant

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Men

I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.

- George McGovern

Intention

I am 1,000 percent for Tom Eagleton and I have no intention of dropping him from the ticket.

- George McGovern

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

- George McGovern

I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.

- George McGovern

Identity

The whole campaign was a tragic case of mistaken identity.

- George McGovern

But it is hazardous and, I believe, counterproductive to become frozen in time by an obsession with past wrongs and errors.

- George McGovern

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There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.

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