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"28 Hubert Humphrey Quotes & Sayings

      American     /    
Born: 27 May 1911. Died: 13 January 1978 | Politician | President |
The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.
Greatest Gift Life Friendship
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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.

Children Dawn Elderly Government
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The difference between hearsay and prophecy is often one of sequence. Hearsay often turns out to have been prophecy.

Turns Often Been Between
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It is not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left.

Away Counts Left Take
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Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
Stands Man Every Behind
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The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.

Taken Right Include Heard
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There are not enough jails, not enough police, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people.

Courts Law Enforce Jails
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To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.

Blame Else Human Politics
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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.

Detour Good Hell Pretty
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Never give in and never give up.
Give Never
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Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.

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

Adventure Life Change Child
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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.

Real Life Cities Sense
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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.

Defend Extend Idea Lose
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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.

Wish Join Way March
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The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.

Replace Hand Never Helping
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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.

Time Bring Power Future
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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.

Concern Future Past Rigid
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Unfortunately, our affluent society has also been an effluent society.

Society Effluent Been Also
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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.
Love Friendship Therapy Healing
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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.

Bears Depends Important Life
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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.

Office Public Life Nature
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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.
Known Virus Man Freedom
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To be realistic today is to be visionary. To be realistic is to be starry-eyed.

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

Free Once Spirit Human
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American public opinion is like an ocean, it cannot be stirred by a teaspoon.

Stirred Ocean Opinion Public
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Liberalism, above all, means emancipation - emancipation from one's fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination, from poverty.

Poverty Means Fears Above
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Asia is rich in people, rich in culture and rich in resources. It is also rich in trouble.

Trouble Rich Resources Culture
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Hubert Humphrey Quotes & Sayings