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

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

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

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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