“But it is hazardous and, I believe, counterproductive to become frozen in time by an obsession with past wrongs and errors.”

“I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.”

“Every Senator in this chamber is partly responsible for sending 50,000 young Americans to an early grave... This chamber reeks of blood... it does not take any courage at all for a Congressman or a Senator or a President to wrap himself in the flag and say we are staying in Viet Nam, because it is not our blood that is being shed.”

“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.”

“It doesn t require any particular bravery to stand on the floor of the Senate and urge our boys in Vietnam to fight harder and if this war mushrooms into a major conflict and a hundred thousand young Americans are killed it won t be U.S. Senators who die. It will be American soldiers who are too young to qualify for the Senate.”

“Beware of geeks bearing gifs.”

“What greater honor,when a person moves forward,they leave behind in each of us, the best of what they were.”