George McGovern — American Politician born on July 19, 1922,

George Stanley McGovern was an American historian, author, U.S. Representative, U.S. Senator, and the Democratic Party presidential nominee in the 1972 presidential election... (wikipedia)

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'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.
I thought the Vietnam war was an utter, unmitigated disaster, so it was very hard for me to say anything good about it.
You know, sometimes, when they say you're ahead of your time, it's just a polite way of saying you have a real bad sense of timing.
When I was in the war, I was lucky that I was in a plane and never saw the carnage close-up.