Hubert Humphrey quotes - page 2

Never answer a question from a farmer. (Hubert Humphrey)
Asia is rich in people, rich in culture and rich in resources. It is also rich in trouble. View quote
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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. View quote
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The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future. View quote
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We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost. View quote
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The President has only 190 million bosses. The Vice President has 190 million and one. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table. View quote
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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. View quote
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To be realistic today is to be visionary. To be realistic is to be starry-eyed. (Hubert Humphrey)
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. View quote
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The vast number of titles which are published each year-all of them are to the good, even if some of them may annoy or even repel us for a time. For none of us would trade freedom of expression and of ideas for the narrowness of the public censor. America is a free market for people who have something to say, and need not fear to say it. View quote
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For all of us here, for the millions who have sent us, for the whole two billion members of the human family, our land is now, more than ever before, the last best hope on earth. And I know that we can, and I know that we shall began [sic] here the fuller and richer realization of that hope - that promise of a land where all men are truly free and equal, and each man uses his freedom and equality wisely well. View quote
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The President is the people's lobbyist. View quote
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The moral test of government is how it treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the aged; and those in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped. View quote
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Foreign policy is really domestic policy with its hat on. View quote
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American public opinion is like an ocean, it cannot be stirred by a teaspoon. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Never give up on anybody. (Hubert Humphrey)
There are incalculable resources in the human spirit, once it has been set free. View quote
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Unfortunately, our affluent society has also been an effluent society. View quote
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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man. View quote
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National isolation breeds national neurosis. View quote
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