George McGovern Quotes

Someone will have to pay for the innocent blood that they shed every day.

It is always a strain when people are being killed. I don't think anybody has held this job who hasn't felt personally responsible for those being killed.

I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.

I'm not proud of killing, of being responsible for the death of a single person. I never will be.

War its thousands slays, Peace its ten thousands.

It wouldn't be 'True Blood' if somebody didn't die.

War is death’s holy-day.

At least eighty thousand of our sons are dead or mangled. A million more will die of poverty and disease. Every issue could have been settled and better settled without the loss of a drop of blood

There is no sure foundation set on blood, No certain life achieved by others' death.

Crime is redeemed by remorse, but not by a blow of the axe or slipknot. Blood has to be washed by tears but not by blood.

How much blood makes a 'bloodbath'?

But later that day, the streets of Kweilin were strewn with newspapers reporting great Kuomintang victories, and on top of these papers, like fresh fish from a butcher, lay rows of people - men, women and children who had never lost hope, but had lost their lives instead.

I wept heartily over this poor little deceased soul. It was the first sentient being I had ever killed. I was now a killer. I was now as guilty as Cain. I was sixteen years old, a harmless boy, bookish and religious, and now I had blood on my hands. It's a terrible burden to carry. All sentient life is sacred.

It would repel me less to be a hangman than a soldier, because the one is obliged to put to death only criminals sentenced by the law, but the other kills honest men who like himself bathe in innocent blood at the bidding of some superior.

I would be looking up from a pool of blood and hearing my wife ask 'How do I reload this thing'.

It seems that humanity is incapable of putting a halt to the shedding of innocent blood.

Sometimes blood, for the sake of sparing it, is spilled.

I can make a movie about Lee Harvey Oswald and make you feel what he feels and make you understand why he believes what he believes. That doesn't mean I think you should go out and shoot JFK.

I think the blood is spilling in Syria and it's mostly Muslims.

For my love, I will wade through an ocean of blood, even if it destroys me

God holds his people responsible for righteousness, not for results.

Lessons not learned in blood are soon forgotten.

What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns.

It feeds and grows on the blood which it sheds. The passions , from which it springs, gain strength and fury from indulgence.

The message of Vietnam is not that Americans will not take casualties; it is that the American people do not want the lives of their sons and daughters wasted.