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To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.
Hubert H. Humphrey
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Hubert H. Humphrey
Age: 66 †
Born: 1911
Born: May 27
Died: 1978
Died: January 13
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Hubert H. Humphrey
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Hubert Horatio Humphrey
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I had no money to buy books, so between classes and work, I haunted the library. I even tutored in French with a sliding scale of payment: twenty dollars for an A, fifteen for a B, ten for a C, five for a D.
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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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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. Professional liberals want the fiery debate. They glory in defeat. The hardest job for a politician today is to have the courage to be a moderate. It's easy to take an extreme position.
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We will have to decide today whether we will design the future or resign ourselves to it.
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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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We live by hope. We do not ever get all we want when we want it. But we have to believe that someday, somehow, some way, it will be better and that we can make it so.
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Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens to keep and bear arms.
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There are those who say to you - we are rushing this issue of civil rights. I say we are 172 years late.
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I've never thought my speeches were too long I've rather enjoyed them.
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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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It is all too easy for a society to measure itself against some abstract philosophical principle or political slogan. But in the end, there must remain the question: What kind of life is one society providing to the people that live in it?
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I learned more about the economy from one South Dakota dust storm that I did in all my years of college.
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The road to freedom, here and everywhere, begins in the classroom.
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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.
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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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The difference between hearsay and prophecy is often one of sequence. Hearsay often turns out to have been prophecy.
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The gap between the rich and the poor is the most dangerous threat to world peace we 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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Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.
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Though everyone has an equal right to speak, not all have earned an equal right to be taken seriously.
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