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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.
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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Propaganda, to be effective, must be believed. To be believed, it must be credible. To be credible, it must be true.
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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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Peace is not passive, it is active. Peace is not appeasement, it is strength. Peace does not 'happen,' it requires work.
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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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My favorite sandwich is peanut butter, baloney, cheddar cheese, lettuce, and mayonnaise on toasted bread with catsup on the side.
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There can be no compromise on the right of personal security there can be no compromise on securing of human rights.
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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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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 great challenge which faces us is to assure that, in our society of big-ness, we do not strangle the voice of creativity, that the rules of the game do not come to overshadow its purpose, that the grand orchestration of society leaves ample room for the man who marches to the music of another drummer.
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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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We will have to decide today whether we will design the future or resign ourselves to it.
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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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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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Foreign policy is really domestic policy with its hat on.
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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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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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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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We will be remembered not for the power of our weapons but for the power of our compassion, our dedication to human welfare.
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To be realistic today is to be visionary. To be realistic is to be starry-eyed.
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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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