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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 Horatio Humphrey
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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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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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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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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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Like many things in our national life, we miscalculated. We overestimated our ability to control events, which is one of the great dangers of a great power. Power tends to be a substitute for judgment and wisdom.
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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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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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What do we want for people? Human dignity, personal expression and fulfillment, justice, freedom.
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There is in every American, I think, something of the old Daniel Boone - who, when he could see the smoke from another chimney, felt himself too crowded and moved further out into the wilderness.
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If today there is a proper American sphere of influence it is this fragile sphere called earth upon which all men live and share a common fate--a sphere where our influence must be for peace and justice.
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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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