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There is in every American, I think, something of the old Daniel Boone -- who, when he could see the smoke from another chimney, felt himself too crowded and moved further out into the wilderness.
By Hubert Humphrey
Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts -- it's what you do with what you have left.
By Hubert Humphrey
There are those who say to you -- we are rushing this issue of civil rights. I say we are 172 years late.
By Hubert Humphrey
I think the worst thing this nation could do for humanity would be to leave any uncertainty as to our will, our purpose and our capacity to carry out our purpose.
By Hubert Humphrey
The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.
By Hubert Humphrey
A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.
By Hubert Humphrey
Fortunately, the time has long passed when people liked to regard the United States as some kind of melting pot, taking men and women from every part of the world and converting them into standardized, homogenized Americans. We are, I think, much more mature and wise today. Just as we welcome a world of diversity, so we glory in an America of diversity -- an America all the richer for the many different and distinctive strands of which it is woven.
By Hubert Humphrey
Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.
By Hubert Humphrey
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.
By Hubert Humphrey
People in places many of us never heard of, whose names we can't pronounce or even spell, are speaking up for themselves. They speak in languages we once classified as exotic but whose mastery is now essential for our diplomats and businessmen. But what they say is very much the same the world over. They want a decent standard of living. They want human dignity and a voice in their own futures. They want their children to grow up strong and healthy and free.
By Hubert Humphrey
The difference between heresy and prophecy is often one of sequence. Heresy often turns out to have been prophecy -- when properly aged.
By Hubert Humphrey
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.
By Hubert Humphrey
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.
By Hubert Humphrey
We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.
By Hubert Humphrey
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.
By Hubert Humphrey
The right to be heard does not autmatically include the right to be taken seriously.
By Hubert Humphrey
The hardest job for a politician today is to have the courage to be a moderate. It's easy to take an extreme position.
By Hubert Humphrey
It was once said that the moral test of Government is how that Government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.
By Hubert Humphrey
It is not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left.
By Hubert Humphrey
In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.
By Hubert Humphrey