49 Quotations by Hubert H. Humphrey
- 1. A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a pract ...

- 2. American public opinion is like an ocean -- it cannot be stirred by a teaspoon.

- 3. Anyone who thinks that the vice-president can take a position independent of the president of his ad ...

- 4. Behind every successful man is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law.

- 5. Each child is an adventure into a better life -- an opportunity to change the old pattern and make i ...

- 6. For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the ...

- 7. Fortunately, the time has long passed when people liked to regard the United States as some kind of ...

- 8. Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.

- 9. Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

- 10. History teaches us that the great revolutions aren't started by people who are utterly down and out, ...

- 11. I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles o ...

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

- 13. I think the worst thing this nation could do for humanity would be to leave any uncertainty as to ou ...

- 14. If there is dissatisfaction with the status quo, good. If there is ferment, so much the better. If t ...

- 15. In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Thing ...

- 16. It is not enough to merely defend democracy. To defend it may be to lose it; to extend it is to stre ...

- 17. It was once said that the moral test of Government is how that Government treats those who are in th ...

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

- 19. Liberalism, above all, means emancipation -- emancipation from one's fears, his inadequacies, from p ...

- 20. National isolation breeds national neurosis.

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