Hubert H. Humphrey Quotes - Page 2

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• 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

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• 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, Independent, Gun

  "Know Your Lawmaker". Guns magazine, p. 4, February 1960.

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• 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

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• 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

  Gun, America, Government

  "Know Your Lawmaker". Guns magazine, p. 4, February 1960.

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• The measure of a civilization is how it treats those at the dawn of life, the margins of life and the twilight of life.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Twilight, Civilization, Dawn

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• We can not expect to breed respect for law and order among people who do not share the fruits of our freedom.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Order, Law, People

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• Peace is not passive, it is active. Peace is not appeasement, it is strength. Peace does not 'happen,' it requires work.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Peace, Doe, Appeasement

  "Obama’s Peace Assets in the Middle East" by Rabbi Michael M. Cohen, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 22, 2013.

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• Behind every successful man is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Mother, Humor, Successful

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• The gap between the rich and the poor is the most dangerous threat to world peace we have.

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  Wisdom, World, Gaps

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• People in places many of us never heard of, whose names we can't pronounce or even spell, are speaking up for themselves. They speak in languages we once classified as exotic but whose mastery is now essential for our diplomats and businessmen. But what they say is very much the same the world over. They want a decent standard of living. They want human dignity and a voice in their own futures. They want their children to grow up strong and healthy and free.

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  Strong, Children, Growing Up

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• Never give up on anybody.

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  Inspirational, Giving Up, Quitting

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• 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.

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  Wise, Men, Thinking

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• Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

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  Freedom, Men, President

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• 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

  Address to the Minnesota State AFL-CIO Convention, 1977.

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• Though everyone has an equal right to speak,
  not all have earned an equal right to be taken seriously.

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  Taken, Speak, Equal

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• The ugliness of bigotry stands in direct contradiction to the very meaning of America.

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  America, Liberty, Contradiction

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• As we begin to comprehend that the earth itself is a kind of manned spaceship hurtling through the infinity of space ~ it will seem increasingly absurd that we have not better organized the life of the human family.

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  Life, Nature, Space

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• Never answer a question from a farmer.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Answers, Politics, Politician

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• We should have learnt by now that laws and court decisions can only point the way. They can establish criteria of right and wrong. And they can provide a basis for rooting out the evils of bigotry and racism. But they cannot wipe away centuries of oppression and injustice - however much we might desire it.

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  Should Have, Law, Racism

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• Life's unfairness is not irrevocable; we can help balance the scales for others, if not always for ourselves.

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  Pain, Justice, Suffering

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• Unfortunately, our affluent society has also been an effluent society.

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  Society, Affluence, Pollution

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• None of us would trade freedom of expression 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.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Expression, America, People

  Address to the National Book Awards ceremony in New York City. The New York Times, p. 42, March 09, 1967.

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• It is always a risk to speak to the press: they are likely to report what you say.

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  Risk, Training, Speak

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• My philosophy has always been that benefits should percolate up rather than trickle down.

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  Wisdom, Philosophy, Benefits

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• There are not enough jails, not enough police, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people.

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  Law, Jail, People

  Speech,Williamsburg, Va., 1 May 1965

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