Wayne Lyman Morse
(1900-1974)

US Senator, Peace Activist
"The Tiger of the Senate"
Gandhi Peace Award Winner

birthdate: October 20
birthplace:
Verona, Wisconsin

QUOTES

Our government has no right to send American boys to their death in any battlefield in the absence of a declaration of war, and Article One, Section Eight of the Constitution vests the prerogative of declaring war in the Congress of the United States.

Since when do we have to back our President, or should we, when the president is proposing an unconstitutional act?

I have complete faith in the ability of the American people to follow the facts if you'll give them. My charge against my government is we're not giving the American people the facts.

It is one thing for politicians here at home, safe in the security of their political offices to vote to send young American draftees to die in an unconscionable war in Vietnam, but it is another thing to be one of those boys. I do not intend to put their blood on my hands.

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