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If the Senator can find in Title VII any language which provides that an employer will have to hire on the basis of percentage or quota related to color, race, religion, or national origin, I will start eating the pages one after another, because it is not in there.

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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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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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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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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Foreign policy is really domestic policy with its hat on.
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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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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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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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More progress results from the violent execution of an imperfect plan than the perfection of a plan to violently execute.
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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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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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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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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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