“I’m fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men [sic] to die in.”
– George McGovern
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.”
– Dwight D. Eisenhower, speech, American Society of Newspaper Editors, 16 April 1953
“Draft beer; not people.”
-Author Unknown
“The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.”
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
“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
