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I've never thought my speeches were too long I've rather enjoyed them.
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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The gap between the rich and the poor is the most dangerous threat to world peace we have.
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The time has arrived in America for the Democratic Party to get out of the shadows of states rights and walk forthrightly into the bright sunshine of human rights
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You can't hoot with the owls and then soar with the eagles
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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.
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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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You can always debate about what you should have done. The question is what are you going to do?
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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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The road to freedom, here and everywhere, begins in the classroom.
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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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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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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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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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Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.
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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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What we need are critical lovers of America - patriots who express their faith in their country by working to improve it.
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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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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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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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