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What do we want for people? Human dignity, personal expression and fulfillment, justice, freedom.
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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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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You can always debate about what you should have done. The question is what are you going to do?
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To be realistic today is to be visionary. To be realistic is to be starry-eyed.
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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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Foreign policy is really domestic policy with its hat on.
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The road to freedom, here and everywhere, begins in the classroom.
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I've never thought my speeches were too long I've rather enjoyed them.
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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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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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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 wish to suggest that ample opportunity does exist for dissent, for protest, and for nonconformity. But I must also say that the right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.
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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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Though everyone has an equal right to speak, not all have earned an equal right to be taken seriously.
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Like many things in our national life, we miscalculated. We overestimated our ability to control events, which is one of the great dangers of a great power. Power tends to be a substitute for judgment and wisdom.
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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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