George McGovern Quotes
Best 7 Quotes by George McGovern
“But it is hazardous and, I believe, counterproductive to become frozen in time by an obsession with past wrongs and errors.”
“Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love thy neighbor as thyself.'”
“I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.”
“Somehow politicians have become convinced that negative campaigning pays off in elections.”
“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.”
“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 standard.”
“The longer the title, the less important the job.”
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“If surrounded by ignorance, coarseness, and selfishness, they will unconsciously assume the same character, and grow up to adult years rude, uncultivated, and all the more dangerous to society if placed amidst the manifold temptations of what is called civilised life.
"Give your child to be educated by a slave," said an ancient Greek, "and instead of one slave, you will then have two."
The child cannot help imitating what he sees. Everything is to him a model — of manner, of gesture, of speech, of habit, of character.
"For the child," says Richter, "the most important era of life is that of childhood, when he begins to colour and mould himself by companionship with others.”
