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Liberalism, above all, means emancipation - emancipation from one's fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination, from poverty.
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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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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This is the first generation in all of recorded history that can do something about the scourge of poverty. We have the means to do it. We can banish hunger from the face of the earth.
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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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To be realistic today is to be visionary. To be realistic is to be starry-eyed.
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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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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 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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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.
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I've never thought my speeches were too long I've rather enjoyed them.
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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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The difference between hearsay and prophecy is often one of sequence. Hearsay often turns out to have been prophecy.
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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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Much of our American progress has been the product of the individual who had an idea pursued it fashioned it tenaciously clung to it against all odds and then produced it, sold it, and profited from it.
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Profit and morality are a hard combination to beat.
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What you do, what each of us does, has an effect on the country, the state, the nation, and the world.
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To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.
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I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known.
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The road to freedom, here and everywhere, begins in the classroom.
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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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The President has only 190 million bosses. The Vice President has 190 million and one.
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