Hubert H. Humphrey quotes

Hubert H. Humphrey

"It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped."
Hubert H. Humphrey
Life Government Children Dawn
"The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love."
Hubert H. Humphrey
Love Friendship Moving On Healing
"Asia is rich in people, rich in culture and rich in resources. It is also rich in trouble."
Hubert H. Humphrey
Culture People Rich Trouble
"Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate."
Hubert H. Humphrey
Freedom Debate Dissent Discussion
"Never give in and never give up."
Hubert H. Humphrey
Motivational Never Never Give Up Up
"To err is human. To blame someone else is politics."
Hubert H. Humphrey
Politics Blame Human Someone
"Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law."
Hubert H. Humphrey
Man Behind Successful Man Surprised
"Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism."
Hubert H. Humphrey
Compassion Socialism Weakness Concern
"Behind every successful man is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law."
Hubert H. Humphrey
Man Wife Proud Behind
"There are not enough jails, not enough police, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people."
Hubert H. Humphrey
People Law Police Enough
"The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously."
Hubert H. Humphrey
Right Seriously Taken Heard Does
"The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor."
Hubert H. Humphrey
Government Never Neighbor Replace
"There is in every American, I think, something of the old Daniel Boone - who, when he could see the smoke from another chimney, felt himself too crowded and moved further out into the wilderness."
Hubert H. Humphrey
Smoke Think American Wilderness
"Never answer a question from a farmer."
Hubert H. Humphrey
Farmer Never Question Answer
"There are incalculable resources in the human spirit, once it has been set free."
Hubert H. Humphrey
Free Spirit Human Resources Once
"Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new."
Hubert H. Humphrey
Life Change Opportunity Better
"Anyone who thinks that the vice-president can take a position independent of the president of his administration simply has no knowledge of politics or government. You are his choice in a political marriage, and he expects your absolute loyalty."
Hubert H. Humphrey
Politics Knowledge You Political
"In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be."
Hubert H. Humphrey
Life Name Real Important
"There are those who say to you - we are rushing this issue of civil rights. I say we are 172 years late."
Hubert H. Humphrey
You Late Who Rights
"To be realistic today is to be visionary. To be realistic is to be starry-eyed."
Hubert H. Humphrey
Today Realistic Visionary
"Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man."
Hubert H. Humphrey
Man Freedom Most Virus
"It is not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left."
Hubert H. Humphrey
You Take Left Away
"The President is the people's lobbyist."
Hubert H. Humphrey
People President Lobbyist
"For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end."
Hubert H. Humphrey
History Future Time Power
"If there is dissatisfaction with the status quo, good. If there is ferment, so much the better. If there is restlessness, I am pleased. Then let there be ideas, and hard thought, and hard work. If man feels small, let man make himself bigger."
Hubert H. Humphrey
Work Good Hard Work Man
"Unfortunately, our affluent society has also been an effluent society."
Hubert H. Humphrey
Society Our Been Also
"The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future."
Hubert H. Humphrey
Future Past Essence Concern
"Today we know that World War II began not in 1939 or 1941 but in the 1920's and 1930's when those who should have known better persuaded themselves that they were not their brother's keeper."
Hubert H. Humphrey
Today War World Better
"National isolation breeds national neurosis."
Hubert H. Humphrey
Isolation National Neurosis Breeds
"Propaganda, to be effective, must be believed. To be believed, it must be credible. To be credible, it must be true."
Hubert H. Humphrey
True Must Be True Propaganda
"Never give up on anybody."
Hubert H. Humphrey
Never Never Give Up Up Give Anybody
"Liberalism, above all, means emancipation - emancipation from one's fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination, from poverty."
Hubert H. Humphrey
Poverty Discrimination Prejudice His
"The difference between hearsay and prophecy is often one of sequence. Hearsay often turns out to have been prophecy."
Hubert H. Humphrey
Difference Out Been Prophecy
"Foreign policy is really domestic policy with its hat on."
Hubert H. Humphrey
Hat Policy Foreign Policy Really
"A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office."
Hubert H. Humphrey
Life Nature Never Practice
"Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table."
Hubert H. Humphrey
Leadership Today World More
"The Senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions, and if the road to hell is paved with them, then it's a pretty good detour."
Hubert H. Humphrey
Good Hell Road Place
"I learned more about the economy from one South Dakota dust storm that I did in all my years of college."
Hubert H. Humphrey
Storm More College About
"This, then, is the test we must set for ourselves; not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us."
Hubert H. Humphrey
Alone Way Will Wish
"The President has only 190 million bosses. The Vice President has 190 million and one."
Hubert H. Humphrey
Only President Vice President Million
"American public opinion is like an ocean, it cannot be stirred by a teaspoon."
Hubert H. Humphrey
American Ocean Like Opinion Cannot
"It is not enough to merely defend democracy. To defend it may be to lose it; to extend it is to strengthen it. Democracy is not property; it is an idea."
Hubert H. Humphrey
Democracy Lose Enough Property
"I learnt more about politics during one South Dakota dust storm than in seven years at the university."
Hubert H. Humphrey
Politics Storm More University
"We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost."
Hubert H. Humphrey
Life Business Real Lost
"I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known."
Hubert H. Humphrey
Courage Compassion More Congress
"It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped."
Hubert H. Humphrey
Life Children Twilight
"It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped."
Hubert H. Humphrey
Life Children Twilight
"Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism."
Hubert H. Humphrey
Inspirational Kindness Compassion
"When we say, 'One nation under God, with liberty and justice for all', we are talking about all people. We either ought to believe it or quit saying it ."
Hubert H. Humphrey
Wisdom Believe Justice For All

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