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Hubert H Humphrey Inspirational Quotes (71)

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History teaches us that the great revolutions aren't started by people who are utterly down and out, without hope and vision. They take place when people begin to live a little better - and when they see how much yet remains to be achieved.
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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.
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You can't hoot with the owls and then soar with the eagles
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Peace is not passive, it is active. Peace is not appeasement, it is strength. Peace does not 'happen,' it requires work.
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The measure of a civilization is how it treats those at the dawn of life, the margins of life and the twilight of life.
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There is a great deal of difference between living and surviving. You can survive in debauchery, even in sickness and despair. But you live with a spirit of vitality and a spirit of participation, of being wanted, and having something to contribute.
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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.
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The time has arrived in America for the Democratic Party to get out of the shadows of states rights and walk forthrightly into the bright sunshine of human rights
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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.
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You can always debate about what you should have done. The question is what are you going to do?
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I've never thought my speeches were too long I've rather enjoyed them.
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The President has only 190 million bosses. The Vice President has 190 million and one.
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What we need are critical lovers of America - patriots who express their faith in their country by working to improve it.
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The pursuit of peace resembles the building of a great cathedral. It is the work of a generation. In concept it requires a mater-architect in execution, the labors of many.
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The difference between hearsay and prophecy is often one of sequence. Hearsay often turns out to have been prophecy.
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Propaganda, to be effective, must be believed. To be believed, it must be credible. To be credible, it must be true.
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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.
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The President is the peoples lobbyist.
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Anyone who thinks that the vice-president can take a position independent of the president of his administration simply has no knowledge of politics or government. You are his choice in a political marriage, and he expects your absolute loyalty.
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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.
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There are incalculable resources in the human spirit, once it has been set free.
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And it is to these rights - the right of law and order, the right of life, the right of liberty, the right of a job, the right of a home in a decent neighborhood, and the right to an education - it is to these rights that I pledge my life and whatever capacity and ability I have.
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You cannot go around and keep score. If you keep score on the good things and the bad things, you'll find out that you're a very miserable person. God gave man the ability to forget, which is one of the greatest attributes you have. Because if you remember everything that's happened to you, you generally remember that which is the most unfortunate.
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We can not expect to breed respect for law and order among people who do not share the fruits of our freedom.
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