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When I was a youngster growing up in South Dakota, we never referred to the national debt, it was always referred to as the war debt because it stemmed from World War I.
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.
I’m fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.
I make one pledge above all others – to seek and speak the truth with all the resources of mind and spirit I command.
Well, we ought to be stirred, even to tears, by society’s ills.
I’ve come to realize that protecting freedom of choice in our everyday lives is essential to maintaining a healthy civil society.
Politics is an act of faith you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public.
I always thought of myself as a moderate liberal, a fighter for peace and justice. I never thought of myself as being all that far out.
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.
I wish I had known more firsthand about the concerns and problems of American businesspeople while I was a U.S. senator and later a presidential nominee. That knowledge would have made me a better legislator and a more worthy aspirant to the White House.