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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.
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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South Dakota
Hubert H. Humphrey
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Hubert Horatio Humphrey
Hubert Horatio Humphrey
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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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Peace is not passive, it is active. Peace is not appeasement, it is strength. Peace does not 'happen,' it requires work.
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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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The President is the peoples lobbyist.
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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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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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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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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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To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.
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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 can always debate about what you should have done. The question is what are you going to do?
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I am absolutely disgusted that anyone would put thousands of America's boys at risk just to win a Political Campaign.
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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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Foreign policy is really domestic policy with its hat on.
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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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You can't hoot with the owls and then soar with the eagles
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