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Quotes by Hubert H. Humphrey

A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.
– Hubert H. Humphrey
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
Behind every successful man is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law.
– Hubert H. Humphrey
Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.
– Hubert H. Humphrey
Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.
– Hubert H. Humphrey
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
Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.
– Hubert H. Humphrey
Here we are the way politics ought to be in America; the politics of happiness, the politics of purpose and the politics of joy.
– Hubert H. 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.
– Hubert H. Humphrey
I learned more about the economy from one South Dakota dust storm that I did in all my years of college.
– Hubert H. Humphrey
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
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
It is not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left.
– 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
Never answer a question from a farmer.
– Hubert H. Humphrey
Never give in and never give up.
– Hubert H. Humphrey
Never give up on anybody.
– Hubert H. Humphrey
The difference between hearsay and prophecy is often one of sequence. Hearsay often turns out to have been prophecy.
– Hubert H. Humphrey
The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.
– Hubert H. Humphrey
The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.
– Hubert H. Humphrey
The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.
– Hubert H. Humphrey
The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.
– Hubert H. Humphrey
The pursuit of peace resembles the building of a great cathedral. It is the work of a generation. In concept it requires a master-architect; in execution, the labors of many.
– Hubert H. Humphrey
The right to be heard does not autmatically include the right to be taken seriously.
– Hubert H. Humphrey
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
There are not enough jails, not enough police, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people.
– Hubert H. Humphrey
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
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
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
To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.
– Hubert H. Humphrey
Underneath the beautiful exterior there was an element of ruthlessness and toughness that I had trouble either accepting or forgetting.
– Hubert H. Humphrey
Unfortunately, our affluent society has also been an effluent society.
– Hubert H. Humphrey
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
You cannot go around and keep score. If you keep score on the good things and the bad things, you'll find out that you're a very miserable person. God gave man the ability to forget, which is one of the greatest attributes you have. Because if you remember everything that's happened to you, you generally remember that which is the most unfortunate.
– Hubert H. Humphrey
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
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
Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.
– Hubert H. Humphrey