Hubert H. Humphrey Quotes - Page 3

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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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• 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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• We will be remembered not for the power of our weapons but for the power of our compassion, our dedication to human welfare.

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  Compassion, Dedication, History

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• The President has only 190 million bosses. The Vice President has 190 million and one.

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  Boss, President, Vices

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• The President is the peoples lobbyist.

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  President, Lobbyists

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• There is a great deal of difference between living and surviving. You can survive in debauchery, even in sickness and despair. But you live with a spirit of vitality and a spirit of participation, of being wanted, and having something to contribute.

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  Wisdom, Differences, Despair

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• Our opposition will never understand the Democratic Party. Our Party is--to the unpracticed eyes of the old Republican Tories--a mysterious contraption that usually seems to be moving in a thousand directions. What they don't know is what hurts them. For all that movement in the Democratic Party is caused by the internal combustion of creative ferment, of ideas, of people vigorously committed to the proposition that change and social progress are not only to be desired; they are necessities of twentieth-century America.

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  Hurt, Moving, Party

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• 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.

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  Life, Real, Names

  Speech in Washington, D.C., March 26, 1966.

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• The message of the United States is not nuclear power. The message of the United States is a spiritual message. It is the message of human ideals; it is the message of human dignity; it is the message of the freedom of ideas, speech, press, the right to assemble, to worship, and the message of freedom of movement of people.

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  Spiritual, Wisdom, Ideas

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• My friends, to those who say that we are rushing this issue of civil rights, I say to them we are 172 years late. To those who say that this civil-rights program is an infringement on states’ rights, I say this: The time has arrived in America for the Democratic Party to get out of the shadow of states' rights and to walk forthrightly into the bright sunshine of human rights.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Party, Sunshine, Rights

  Address at Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, www.americanrhetoric.com. July 14, 1948.

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• More progress results from the violent execution of an imperfect plan than the perfection of a plan to violently execute.

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  Perfection, Progress, Execution

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• It is all too easy for a society to measure itself against some abstract philosophical principle or political slogan. But in the end, there must remain the question: What kind of life is one society providing to the people that live in it?

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  Wisdom, Philosophical, People

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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.

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  Past, Essence, Politics

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• 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.

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  Hate, Anger, People

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• The time has arrived in America for the Democratic Party to get out of the shadows of states rights and walk forthrightly into the bright sunshine of human rights

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  Party, Sunshine, Rights

  1948 Democratic National Convention Address, delivered 14 July 1948, Philadelphia, PA

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• Peace of mind is another way of saying that you've learned how to love, that you have come to appreciate the importance of giving love in order to be worthy of receiving it.

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  Love, Order, Appreciate

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• Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

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  Life, Change, Travel

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

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  Wisdom, Country, Doe

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• Asia is rich in people, rich in culture and rich in resources. It is also rich in trouble.

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  People, Culture, Asia

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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.

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  Ideas, Democracy, May

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• If I believe in something, I will fight for it, with all I have. But I do not demand all or nothing. I would rather get something than nothing.

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  Wisdom, Believe, Fighting

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• It is better to gain a foot than to stand still, even when you seek to gain a mile.

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  Feet, Gains, Action

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• I am not here to judge whether people are locked in poverty because of themselves or because of the society in which they live. All I know is that they are there and we are trying to do something about it.

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  Wisdom, People, Judging

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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.

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  Business, Real, Cities

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• If I believe in something, I will fight for it with all I have. But I do not demand all or nothing. I would rather get something than nothing. Professional liberals want the fiery debate. They glory in defeat. The hardest job for a politician today is to have the courage to be a moderate. It's easy to take an extreme position.

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  Jobs, Believe, Fighting

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