Famous Quotes

"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 on History

More quotes about History

• "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

  Confucius on History

• "The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew."

  Abraham Lincoln on History

• "A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history."

  Mahatma Gandhi on History

• "The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little."

  Franklin D. Roosevelt on History

• "I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past."

  Thomas Jefferson on History

More quotes by George McGovern

• "My dad was a Methodist minister."

• "Politics is an act of faith you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public."

• "I've come to realize that protecting freedom of choice in our everyday lives is essential to maintaining a healthy civil society."

• "Democrats believe that the federal government is not our enemy, it's our partner."

• "I think the country's getting disgusted with Washington partly because of the decline of civility in government."