Quote #4

There is only one thing to do - take it to the country!

More from Eugene McCarthy

  1. The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
  2. We do not need presidents who are bigger than the country, but rather ones who speak for it and support it.
  3. The two-party system has given this country the war of Lyndon Johnson, the Watergate of Nixon, and the incompetence of Carter. Saying we sh…
  4. I'm kind of an accidental instrument, really, through which I hope that the judgment and the will of this nation can be expressed.
  5. Have you ever tried to split sawdust?
  6. The maple tree that night Without a wind or rain Let go its leaves Because its time had come.
  7. Now it is certain. There is no magic stone. No secret to be found. One must go With the mind's winnowed learning.
  8. The glove has been thrown to the ground, The last choice of weapons made. A book for one thought. A poem for one line. A line for one word.

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