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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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This is the first generation in all of recorded history that can do something about the scourge of poverty. We have the means to do it. We can banish hunger from the face of the earth.
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As we begin to comprehend that the earth itself is a kind of manned spaceship hurtling through the infinity of space ~ it will seem increasingly absurd that we have not better organized the life of the human family.
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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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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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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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What you do, what each of us does, has an effect on the country, the state, the nation, and the world.
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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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We will have to decide today whether we will design the future or resign ourselves to it.
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The President is the peoples lobbyist.
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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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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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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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The gap between the rich and the poor is the most dangerous threat to world peace we have.
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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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Our greatest songs are still unsung.
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The road to freedom, here and everywhere, begins in the classroom.
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The history of the labor movement needs to be taught in every school in this land. America is a living testimonial to what free men and women, organized in free democratic trade unions can do to make a better life. We ought to be proud of it!
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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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The ugliness of bigotry stands in direct contradiction to the very meaning of America.
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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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