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The President has only 190 million bosses. The Vice President has 190 million and one.
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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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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Asia is rich in people, rich in culture and rich in resources. It is also rich in trouble.
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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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More progress results from the violent execution of an imperfect plan than the perfection of a plan to violently execute.
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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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We need an America with the wisdom of experience. But we must not let America grow old in spirit.
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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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It is not enough to merely defend democracy. To defend it may be to lose it to extend it is to strengthen it. Democracy is not property it is an idea.
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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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Our greatest songs are still unsung.
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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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Liberalism, above all, means emancipation - emancipation from one's fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination, from poverty.
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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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To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.
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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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It is better to gain a foot than to stand still, even when you seek to gain a mile.
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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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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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Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.
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