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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.
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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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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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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We need an America with the wisdom of experience. But we must not let America grow old in spirit.
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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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It is better to gain a foot than to stand still, even when you seek to gain a mile.
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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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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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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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To be realistic today is to be visionary. To be realistic is to be starry-eyed.
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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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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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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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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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