Hubert H. Humphrey Quotes - Page 4

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• 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

  Remarks at University of Chicago, January 14, 1966.

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• National isolation breeds national neurosis.

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  Neurosis, Isolation

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• Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.

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  Leadership, World, Fists

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• There are incalculable resources in the human spirit, once it has been set free.

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  President, Liberty, Spirit

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• We need an America with the wisdom of experience. But we must not let America grow old in spirit.

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  4th Of July, Patriotic, America

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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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• 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

  Newsweek, p. 23, January 23, 1978.

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• Our greatest songs are still unsung.

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  Song, Greatest Song, Stills

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• We will have to decide today whether we will design the future or resign ourselves to it.

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  Design, Today, Planning

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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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• 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

  Men, Remembers Everything, Miserable Person

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• My favorite sandwich is peanut butter, baloney, cheddar cheese, lettuce, and mayonnaise on toasted bread with catsup on the side.

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  Food, Cooking, Mayonnaise

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• The great challenge which faces us is to assure that, in our society of big-ness, we do not strangle the voice of creativity, that the rules of the game do not come to overshadow its purpose, that the grand orchestration of society leaves ample room for the man who marches to the music of another drummer.

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  Creativity, Men, Games

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• To be realistic today is to be visionary. To be realistic is to be starry-eyed.

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  Reality, Visionaries, Today

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• The leadership for civil rights has to take place in the White House or it is going to take place in the streets.

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  Wisdom, Rights, White

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• If the Senator can find in Title VII any language which provides that an employer will have to hire on the basis of percentage or quota related to color, race, religion, or national origin, I will start eating the pages one after another, because it is not in there.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Race, Color, Titles

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• And it is to these rights - the right of law and order, the right of life, the right of liberty, the right of a job, the right of a home in a decent neighborhood, and the right to an education - it is to these rights that I pledge my life and whatever capacity and ability I have.

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  Jobs, Work, Home

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• There can be no compromise on the right of personal security; there can be no compromise on securing of human rights.

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  Rights, Compromise, Humans

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• Until racial justice and freedom is a reality in this land, our union will remain profoundly imperfect.

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  Reality, Land, Justice

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• The pursuit of peace resembles the building of a great cathedral. It is the work of a generation. In concept it requires a mater-architect; in execution, the labors of many.

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  Peace, Humanity, Execution

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• I had no money to buy books, so between classes and work, I haunted the library. I even tutored in French with a sliding scale of payment: twenty dollars for an A, fifteen for a B, ten for a C, five for a D.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Book, Class, Library

  "The Education of a Public Man: My Life and Politics". Book by Hubert Humphrey, 1976.

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• In this time of national crises...per haps we would do well to spend a few minutes in considering projects which grace and embellish the earth, instead of shaking it.

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  Wisdom, Grace, Earth

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• History teaches us that the great revolutions aren't started by people who are utterly down and out, without hope and vision. They take place when people begin to live a little better - and when they see how much yet remains to be achieved.

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  People, Vision, Down And

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• I wish to suggest that ample opportunity does exist for dissent, for protest, and for nonconformity. But I must also say that the right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.

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  Taken, Opportunity, Wish

  Address to the National Student Council, 1965.

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• 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.

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  Loyalty, Independent, Thinking

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