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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.
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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Hubert Horatio Humphrey
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You cannot go around and keep score. If you keep score on the good things and the bad things, you'll find out that you're a very miserable person. God gave man the ability to forget, which is one of the greatest attributes you have. Because if you remember everything that's happened to you, you generally remember that which is the most unfortunate.
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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 incalculable resources in the human spirit, once it has been set free.
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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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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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Liberalism, above all, means emancipation - emancipation from one's fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination, from poverty.
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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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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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Asia is rich in people, rich in culture and rich in resources. It is also rich in trouble.
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I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known.
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In life it isn't what you've lost, it's what you've got left that counts
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