Hubert H. Humphrey famous quotes

The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.
-- Hubert H. Humphrey

#Love #Friendship #Christmas

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 #Talking

Never give in and never give up.
-- Hubert H. Humphrey

#Giving Up #Political #Never Give In

Never give up on anybody.
-- Hubert H. Humphrey

#Inspirational #Giving Up #Quitting

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

#Inspirational #Motivational #Positive

The history of the labor movement needs to be taught in every school in this land. America is a living testimonial to what free men and women, organized in free democratic trade unions can do to make a better life. We ought to be proud of it!
-- Hubert H. Humphrey

#School #Men #Land

I believe that each of us can make a difference. That what is wrong can be made right. That people possess the basic wisdom and goodness to govern themselves without conflict.
-- Hubert H. Humphrey

#Wisdom #Believe #Differences

It is not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left.
-- Hubert H. Humphrey

#Inspirational #Motivational #Positive

Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.
-- Hubert H. Humphrey

#Government #President #Anvils

The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.
-- Hubert H. Humphrey

#Friendship #Family #Government

Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.
-- Hubert H. Humphrey

#Inspirational #Kindness #Compassion

The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.
-- Hubert H. Humphrey

#Motivational #Life And Love #Freedom

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 #Travel

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

#Thinking #Wilderness #Chimneys

Equality means equality for all- no exceptions, no 'yes, buts', no asterisked footnotes imposing limits.
-- Hubert H. Humphrey

#Wisdom #Mean #Limits

To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.
-- Hubert H. Humphrey

#Political #Politics #Blame

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.
-- Hubert H. Humphrey

#Wisdom #Unemployment #Levels

It is always a risk to speak to the press: they are likely to report what you say.
-- Hubert H. Humphrey

#Risk #Training #Speak

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.
-- Hubert H. Humphrey

#Children #Twilight #Elderly

Slumism is the pent-up anger of people living on the outside of affluence. Slumism is decay of structure and deterioration of the human spirit. Slumism is a virus which spreads through the body politic. As other "isms," it breeds disorder and demagoguery and hate.
-- Hubert H. Humphrey

#Hate #Anger #People

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.
-- Hubert H. Humphrey

#Wise #Men #Thinking

What we need are critical lovers of America - patriots who express their faith in their country by working to improve it.
-- Hubert H. Humphrey

#Country #America #Patriotism

Propaganda, to be effective, must be believed. To be believed, it must be credible. To be credible, it must be true.
-- Hubert H. Humphrey

#Political #Language #Propaganda

American public opinion is like an ocean, it cannot be stirred by a teaspoon.
-- Hubert H. Humphrey

#Ocean #Public Opinion #Opinion

We need an America with the wisdom of experience. But we must not let America grow old in spirit.
-- Hubert H. Humphrey

#4th Of July #America #Needs

Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.
-- Hubert H. Humphrey

#Freedom #Men #Viruses

Just be what you are and speak from your guts and heart - it's all a person has.
-- Hubert H. Humphrey

#Hope #Wisdom #Integrity

There can be no compromise on the right of personal security; there can be no compromise on securing of human rights.
-- Hubert H. Humphrey

#Rights #Compromise #Humans

You can always debate about what you should have done. The question is what are you going to do?
-- Hubert H. Humphrey

#Done #Debate #Should

What you do, what each of us does, has an effect on the country, the state, the nation, and the world.
-- Hubert H. Humphrey

#Country #Doe #World

The right of citizens to bear arms is just one guarantee against arbitrary government, one more safeguard against the tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible.
-- Hubert H. Humphrey

#Government #America #Second Amendment

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.
-- Hubert H. Humphrey

#Song #Believe #New Day

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

#Hippie #Rights #Years

The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.
-- Hubert H. Humphrey

#Past #Essence #Politics

Behind every successful man is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law.
-- Hubert H. Humphrey

#Mother #Humor #Successful

Asia is rich in people, rich in culture and rich in resources. It is also rich in trouble.
-- Hubert H. Humphrey

#People #Culture #Asia

Liberalism, above all, means emancipation - emancipation from one's fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination, from poverty.
-- Hubert H. Humphrey

#Mean #Poverty #Prejudice

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

#Business #Real #Cities

There are incalculable resources in the human spirit, once it has been set free.
-- Hubert H. Humphrey

#President #Liberty #Spirit

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 #Fists

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

#Brother #War #Today

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.
-- Hubert H. Humphrey

#Freedom #Government #Bears

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

#Political #Detours #Politics

The difference between hearsay and prophecy is often one of sequence. Hearsay often turns out to have been prophecy.
-- Hubert H. Humphrey

#Differences #Religion #Prophecy

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.
-- Hubert H. Humphrey

#Hope #Believe #Want

The President has only 190 million bosses. The Vice President has 190 million and one.
-- Hubert H. Humphrey

#Boss #President #Vices

Unfortunately, our affluent society has also been an effluent society.
-- Hubert H. Humphrey

#Society #Affluent #Ecology

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

#Loyalty #Independent #Thinking

I do not feel that we should allow a shortage of funds to prevent cities from financing needed projects.
-- Hubert H. Humphrey

#Cities #Projects #Should