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• I am absolutely disgusted that anyone would put thousands of America's boys at risk just to win a Political Campaign.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Winning, Boys, America

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• This is the first generation in all of recorded history that can do something about the scourge of poverty. We have the means to do it. We can banish hunger from the face of the earth.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Wisdom, Mean, Generations

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• When people generally are aware of a problem, it can be said to have entered the public consciousness. When people get on their hind legs and holler, the problem has not only entered the public consciousness -- it has also become a part of the public conscience. At that point, things in our democracy begin to hum.

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  People, Democracy, Legs

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• Capital, and the question of who owns it and therefore reaps the benefit of its productiveness, is an extremely important issue that is complementary to the issue of full employment... I see these as twin pillars of our economy: Full employment of our labor resources and widespread ownership of our capital resources. Such twin pillars would go a long way in providing a firm underlying support for future economic growth that would be equitably shared.

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  Wisdom, Issues, Long

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• We cannot use a double standard for measuring our own and other people's policies. Our demands for democratic practices in other lands will be no more effective than the guarantees of those practiced in our own country.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Wisdom, Country, Land

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

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• Much of our American progress has been the product of the individual who had an idea; pursued it; fashioned it; tenaciously clung to it against all odds; and then produced it, sold it, and profited from it.

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  Success, Creativity, Odds

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• Before people will do anything, they have got to eat. And if you are really looking for a way for people to lean on you and to be dependent on you, in terms of their cooperation with you, it seems to me that food dependence would be terrific.

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  People, Would Be, Way

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• You can't hoot with the owls and then soar with the eagles

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Eagles, Owl, Soar

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• What do we want for people? Human dignity, personal expression and fulfillment, justice, freedom.

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  Wisdom, Expression, People

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• Profit and morality are a hard combination to beat.

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  Morality, Beats, Profit

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• Surely anyone who has ever been elected to public office understands that one commodity above all others, namely the trust and confidence of the people, is fundamental in maintaining a free and open political system.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  People, Office, Political

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• I learned more about the economy from one South Dakota dust storm that I did in all my years of college.

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  Learning, College, Dust

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• Foreign policy is really domestic policy with its hat on.

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  Hate, Hats, Foreign Policy

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• Like many things in our national life, we miscalculated. We overestimated our ability to control events, which is one of the great dangers of a great power. Power tends to be a substitute for judgment and wisdom.

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  Power, Events, Judgment

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• 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

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• I've never thought my speeches were too long; I've rather enjoyed them.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Long, Speech, Enjoyed

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• Hubert Humphrey with kids"Be clear where America stands. Human brotherhood and equal opportunity for every man, woman, and child, we are committed to it, in America and around the world."

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Wisdom, Children, Kids

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• A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Nature, Practice, Office

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• In life it isn't what you've lost, it's what you've got left that counts

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  Gratitude, Lost, Left

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• 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

  Compassion, Profile, Institutions

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• In the minds and hearts of the American people, there is a great hunger for peace based on a universal recognition of the values of freedom and human dignity.

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  Wisdom, Heart, People

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• American public opinion is like an ocean, it cannot be stirred by a teaspoon.

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  Ocean, Public Opinion, Opinion

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• You cannot tell a poor boy from a small country town on the plains of South Dakota who has had the opportunity to be a teacher, a mayor, a senator, and a vice president, that America is not a nation of promise.

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  Wisdom, Country, Teacher

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• If today there is a proper American "sphere of influence" it is this fragile sphere called earth upon which all men live and share a common fate--a sphere where our influence must be for peace and justice.

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  Fate, Men, Justice

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

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  Cities, Projects, Should

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