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Hubert H. Humphrey
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Hubert H. Humphrey
Age: 66 †
Born: 1911
Born: May 27
Died: 1978
Died: January 13
Pharmacist
Politician
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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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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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The road to freedom, here and everywhere, begins in the classroom.
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If today there is a proper American sphere of influence it is this fragile sphere called earth upon which all men live and share a common fate--a sphere where our influence must be for peace and justice.
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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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I've never thought my speeches were too long I've rather enjoyed them.
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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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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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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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Though everyone has an equal right to speak, not all have earned an equal right to be taken seriously.
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The difference between hearsay and prophecy is often one of sequence. Hearsay often turns out to have been prophecy.
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The President is the peoples lobbyist.
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Foreign policy is really domestic policy with its hat on.
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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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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.
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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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Asia is rich in people, rich in culture and rich in resources. It is also rich in trouble.
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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 ugliness of bigotry stands in direct contradiction to the very meaning of America.
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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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You can always debate about what you should have done. The question is what are you going to do?
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