Top 130 Quotes & Sayings by Hubert H. Humphrey
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Last updated on December 23, 2024.
The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.
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.
To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.
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.
The President has only 190 million bosses. The Vice President has 190 million and one.
Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.
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.
Never give up on anybody.
The difference between hearsay and prophecy is often one of sequence. Hearsay often turns out to have been prophecy.
Asia is rich in people, rich in culture and rich in resources. It is also rich in trouble.
A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.
Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.
The President is the people's lobbyist.
To be realistic today is to be visionary. To be realistic is to be starry-eyed.
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.
American public opinion is like an ocean, it cannot be stirred by a teaspoon.
Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.
I learnt more about politics during one South Dakota dust storm than in seven years at the university.
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.
We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.
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.
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.
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.
I learned more about the economy from one South Dakota dust storm that I did in all my years of college.
The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.
Propaganda, to be effective, must be believed. To be believed, it must be credible. To be credible, it must be true.
Behind every successful man is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law.
There are incalculable resources in the human spirit, once it has been set free.
Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
There are those who say to you - we are rushing this issue of civil rights. I say we are 172 years late.
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.
Foreign policy is really domestic policy with its hat on.
Unfortunately, our affluent society has also been an effluent society.
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.
Never give in and never give up.
Never answer a question from a farmer.
The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.
Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.
There are not enough jails, not enough police, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people.
The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.
National isolation breeds national neurosis.
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.
The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.
Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.
Liberalism, above all, means emancipation - emancipation from one's fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination, from poverty.
It is not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left.
Peace is not passive, it is active. Peace is not appeasement, it is strength. Peace does not 'happen,' it requires work.
There is no such thing as an acceptable level of unemployment, because hunger is not acceptable, poverty is not acceptable, poor health is not acceptable, and a ruined life is not acceptable.
Fortunately, the time has long passed when people liked to regard the United States as some kind of melting pot, taking men and women from every part of the world and converting them into standardized, homogenized Americans. We are, I think, much more mature and wise today. Just as we welcome a world of diversity, so we glory in an America of diversity -- an America all the richer for the many different and distinctive strands of which it is woven.
Equality means equality for all - no exceptions, no 'yes, buts', no asterisked footnotes imposing limits.
We live by hope. We do not ever get all we want when we want it. But we have to believe that someday, somehow, some way, it will be better and that we can make it so.
Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens to keep and bear arms. This is not to say that firearms should not be very carefully used and that definite safety rules of precaution should not be taught and enforced. But the right of citizens to bear arms is just one more guarantee against arbitrary government, and one more safeguard against tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible.
The way we treat our children in the dawn of their lives and the way we treat our elderly in the twilight of their lives is a measure of the quality of a nation.
You can always debate about what you should have done. The question is what are you going to do?
The moral test of a society is how that society treats those who are in the dawn of life: the children; ... the elderly.
When the dignity of one person is denied, all of us are denied.
The good old days were never that good, believe me. The good new days are today, and better days are coming tomorrow. Our greatest songs are still unsung.
Life's unfairness is not irrevocable; we can help balance the scales for others, if not always for ourselves.
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 .
We can not expect to breed respect for law and order among people who do not share the fruits of our freedom.
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