American public opinion is like an ocean- it cannot be stirred by a teaspoon.
--Hubert H. Humphrey
As we begin to comprehend that the earth itself is a kind of manned spaceship hurtling through the infinity of space- it will seem increasingly absurd that we have not better organized the life of the human family.
--Hubert H. Humphrey
Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.
--Hubert H. Humphrey
Foreign policy is really domestic policy with its hat on.
--Hubert H. Humphrey
Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.
--Hubert H. Humphrey
I learned more about economics from one South Dakota dust storm than I did in all my years at college.
--Hubert H. Humphrey
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.
--Hubert H. Humphrey
Liberalism, above all, means emancipation- emancipation from one's fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination... from poverty.
--Hubert H. Humphrey
National isolation breeds national neurosis.
--Hubert H. Humphrey
Never answer a question from a farmer.
--Hubert H. Humphrey
Never give in and never give up.
--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
Propaganda, to be effective, must be believed. To be believed, it must be credible. To be credible, it must be true.
--Hubert H. Humphrey
The difference between heresy and prophecy is often one of sequence. Heresy often turns out to have been prophecy- when properly aged.
--Hubert H. Humphrey
The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.
--Hubert H. Humphrey
The moral test of government is how it treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the aged; and those in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.
--Hubert H. Humphrey
The President has only 190 million bosses. The Vice President has 190 million and one.
--Hubert H. Humphrey
The President is the people's lobbyist.
--Hubert H. Humphrey
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
There are incalculable resources in the human spirit, once it has been set free.
--Hubert H. Humphrey
There are not enough jails, not enough policemen, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people.
--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
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.
--Hubert H. Humphrey
To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.
--Hubert H. Humphrey
Today we know that World War II began not in 1939 or 1941 but in the 1920's and 1930's when those who should have known better persuaded themselves that they were not their brother's keeper.
--Hubert H. Humphrey
Unfortunately, our affluent society has also been an effluent society.
--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
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