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Hubert Humphrey Quotes
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Famous Hubert Humphrey Quotations
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Hubert Horatio Humphrey, Jr. (May 27, 1911-January 13, 1978) was the thirty-eighth Vice President of the United States, serving under President Lyndon B. Johnson. Humphrey twice served as a United States Senator from Minnesota, and served as Democratic Majority Whip. He was a founder of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party and Americans for Democratic Action. He also served as mayor of Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1945-1949. In 1968, Humphrey was the nominee of the Democratic Party in the 1968 presidential election but narrowly lost to the Republican nominee, Richard Nixon
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- Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law. Hubert Humphrey »
- Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of the citizens to keep and bear arms. This is not to say that firearms should not be carefully used and that definite safety rules of precaution should not be taught and enforced. But the right of the citizens to bear arms is just one guarantee against arbitrary government and one more safeguard against a tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible. 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. Hubert Humphrey »
- It is not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left. 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. Hubert Humphrey »
- Men in earnest have no time to waste In patching fig-leaves for the naked truth. Hubert Humphrey »
- Never give up on anybody. Hubert Humphrey »
- The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it. Hubert Humphrey »
- The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love. 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. Hubert Humphrey »
- The right to be heard does not autmatically include the right to be taken seriously. 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. Hubert Humphrey »
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