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Hubert Humphrey advised new members, If you feel an urge to stand up and make a speech attacking Vietnamese policy, don't make it. — Barbara W. Tuchman

I've never thought my speeches were too long; I've rather enjoyed them. — Hubert H. Humphrey

The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it. — Hubert H. Humphrey

Unfortunately, our affluent society has also been an effluent society. — Hubert H. Humphrey

Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate. — Hubert H. Humphrey

There is a lot of difference between failure and defeat. Failure is when you are defeated and neither learn nor contribute anything. — Hubert H. Humphrey

Profit and morality are a hard combination to beat. — Hubert H. Humphrey

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love. — Hubert H. Humphrey

Peace is not passive, it is active. Peace is not appeasement, it is strength. Peace does not 'happen,' it requires work. — Hubert H. Humphrey

To be realistic today is to be visionary. To be realistic is to be starry-eyed. — Hubert H. Humphrey

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

You people voted for Hubert Humphrey and killed Jesus! — Hunter S. Thompson

You remind me of Hubert Humphrey. You talk too much — Ernest Hollings

Until racial justice and freedom is a reality in this land, our union will remain profoundly imperfect. — Hubert H. Humphrey

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

The difference between hearsay and prophecy is often one of sequence. Hearsay often turns out to have been prophecy. — Hubert H. Humphrey

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

Our greatest songs are still unsung. — Hubert H. Humphrey

Never give up on anybody. — Hubert H. Humphrey

My philosophy has always been that benefits should percolate up rather than trickle down. — Hubert H. Humphrey

When the dignity of one person is denied, all of us are denied. — Hubert H. Humphrey

The President is the people's lobbyist. — Hubert H. Humphrey

The President has only 190 million bosses. The Vice President has 190 million and one. — Hubert H. Humphrey

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

Here we are the way politics ought to be in America; the politics of happiness, the politics of purpose and the politics of joy. — Hubert H. Humphrey

Hubert Humphrey is a treacherous, gutless old ward-heeler who should be put in a goddamn bottle and sent out with the Japanese current. — Hunter S. Thompson

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

To err is human. To blame someone else is politics. — Hubert H. Humphrey

Asia is rich in people, rich in culture and rich in resources. It is also rich in trouble. — Hubert H. Humphrey

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

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

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

The road to freedom, here and everywhere, begins in the classroom. — Hubert H. Humphrey

The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us. — Hubert H. Humphrey

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

The moral test of a society is how that society treats those who are in the dawn of life: the children; ... the elderly. — Hubert H. Humphrey

We will have to decide today whether we will design the future or resign ourselves to it. — Hubert H. Humphrey

Hubert Humphrey's wife is said to have advised him: Darling, for a speech to be immortal it need not be interminable. — Peggy Noonan

Foreign policy is really domestic policy with its hat on. — Hubert H. Humphrey

Liberalism, above all, means emancipation - emancipation from one's fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination, from poverty. — Hubert H. Humphrey

We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost. — Hubert H. Humphrey

Behind every successful man is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law. — Hubert H. Humphrey

There are not enough jails, not enough police, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people. — Hubert H. Humphrey

Senator Goldwater would have been a great success in the movies - working for 18th century Fox. — Hubert H. Humphrey

The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously. — Hubert H. Humphrey

Propaganda, to be effective, must be believed. To be believed, it must be credible. — Hubert H. Humphrey

In life it isn't what you've lost, it's what you've got left that counts — Hubert H. Humphrey

We will be remembered not for the power of our weapons but for the power of our compassion, our dedication to human welfare. — Hubert H. Humphrey

The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future. — Hubert H. Humphrey

[He]talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages. — Barry M. Goldwater

Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man. — Hubert H. Humphrey

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

It is better to gain a foot than to stand still, even when you seek to gain a mile. — Hubert H. Humphrey

The ugliness of bigotry stands in direct contradiction to the very meaning of America. — Hubert H. Humphrey

American public opinion is like an ocean, it cannot be stirred by a teaspoon. — Hubert H. Humphrey

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

Just be what you are and speak from your guts and heart - it's all a person has. — Hubert H. Humphrey

Equality means equality for all- no exceptions, no 'yes, buts', no asterisked footnotes imposing limits. — Hubert H. Humphrey

I learnt more about politics during one South Dakota dust storm than in seven years at the university. — Hubert H. Humphrey

We need an America with the wisdom of experience. But we must not let America grow old in spirit. — Hubert H. Humphrey

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

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. — Hubert H. Humphrey

Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left. — Hubert H. Humphrey

You can't hoot with the owls and then soar with the eagles — Hubert H. Humphrey

What we need are critical lovers of America - patriots who express their faith in their country by working to improve it. — Hubert H. Humphrey

There can be no compromise on the right of personal security; there can be no compromise on securing of human rights. — Hubert H. Humphrey

The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor. — Hubert H. Humphrey

Never answer a question from a farmer. — Hubert H. Humphrey

Never give in,never give up,never surrender no matter what! — Hubert H. Humphrey

Never give in and never give up. — Hubert H. Humphrey

Though everyone has an equal right to speak,
not all have earned an equal right to be taken seriously. — Hubert H. Humphrey

Perhaps the cruelest thing ever said of Hubert Humphrey was that he had the soul of a vice president. — Susan Estrich

Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism. — Hubert H. Humphrey

What do we want for people? Human dignity, personal expression and fulfillment, justice, freedom. — Hubert H. Humphrey

More progress results from the violent execution of an imperfect plan than the perfection of a plan to violently execute. — Hubert H. Humphrey

The leadership for civil rights has to take place in the White House or it is going to take place in the streets. — Hubert H. Humphrey

It is always a risk to speak to the press: they are likely to report what you say. — Hubert H. Humphrey

Hubert, a speech doesn't have to be eternal to be immortal. — Muriel Humphrey

There are incalculable resources in the human spirit, once it has been set free. — Hubert H. Humphrey