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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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Hubert Horatio Humphrey
Hubert Horatio Humphrey
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Hubert H. Humphrey
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The difference between hearsay and prophecy is often one of sequence. Hearsay often turns out to have been prophecy.
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It is all too easy for a society to measure itself against some abstract philosophical principle or political slogan. But in the end, there must remain the question: What kind of life is one society providing to the people that live in it?
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I learned more about the economy from one South Dakota dust storm that I did in all my years of college.
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To be realistic today is to be visionary. To be realistic is to be starry-eyed.
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Foreign policy is really domestic policy with its hat on.
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The President has only 190 million bosses. The Vice President has 190 million and one.
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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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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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There are those who say to you - we are rushing this issue of civil rights. I say we are 172 years late.
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Profit and morality are a hard combination to beat.
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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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What do we want for people? Human dignity, personal expression and fulfillment, justice, freedom.
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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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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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My favorite sandwich is peanut butter, baloney, cheddar cheese, lettuce, and mayonnaise on toasted bread with catsup on the side.
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None of us would trade freedom of expression for the narrowness of the public censor. America is a free market for people who have something to say, and need not fear to say it.
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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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Though everyone has an equal right to speak, not all have earned an equal right to be taken seriously.
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We live by hope. We do not ever get all we want when we want it. But we have to believe that someday, somehow, some way, it will be better and that we can make it so.
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