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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.
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 Horatio Humphrey
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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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You cannot tell a poor boy from a small country town on the plains of South Dakota who has had the opportunity to be a teacher, a mayor, a senator, and a vice president, that America is not a nation of promise.
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We will be remembered not for the power of our weapons but for the power of our compassion, our dedication to human welfare.
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You can't hoot with the owls and then soar with the eagles
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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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To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.
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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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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 difference between hearsay and prophecy is often one of sequence. Hearsay often turns out to have been prophecy.
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The road to freedom, here and everywhere, begins in the classroom.
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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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Slumism is the pent-up anger of people living on the outside of affluence. Slumism is decay of structure and deterioration of the human spirit. Slumism is a virus which spreads through the body politic. As other isms, it breeds disorder and demagoguery and hate.
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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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In life it isn't what you've lost, it's what you've got left that counts
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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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