, poet
, and a long-time member of the United States Congress from Minnesota
. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives
from 1949 to 1959 and the U.S. Senate
from 1959 to 1971.
In the 1968 presidential election, McCarthy was the first candidate to challenge incumbent Lyndon B. Johnson
for the Democratic
nomination for president of the United States
, running on an anti-Vietnam War
platform.
Have you ever tried to split sawdust?
The two-party system has given this country the war of Lyndon Johnson, the Watergate of Nixon, and the incompetence of Carter. Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life-rafts.
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
We do not need presidents who are bigger than the country, but rather ones who speak for it and support it.
The maple tree that nightWithout a wind or rainLet go its leavesBecause its time had come.
Now it is certain.There is no magic stone.No secret to be found.One must goWith the mind's winnowed learning.
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.
"Broken things are powerful."Things about to break are stronger still.The last shot from the brittle bow is truest.