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In life it isn't what you've lost, it's what you've got left that counts
Hubert H. Humphrey
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Hubert H. Humphrey
Age: 66 †
Born: 1911
Born: May 27
Died: 1978
Died: January 13
Pharmacist
Politician
Trade Unionist
Wallace
South Dakota
Hubert H. Humphrey
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HHH
Hubert Horatio Humphrey
Hubert Horatio Humphrey
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Hubert H. Humphrey
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To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.
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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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The road to freedom, here and everywhere, begins in the classroom.
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Profit and morality are a hard combination to beat.
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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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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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More progress results from the violent execution of an imperfect plan than the perfection of a plan to violently execute.
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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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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.
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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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Though everyone has an equal right to speak, not all have earned an equal right to be taken seriously.
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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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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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Hubert Humphrey with kidsBe clear where America stands. Human brotherhood and equal opportunity for every man, woman, and child, we are committed to it, in America and around the world.
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