Hubert Humphrey Quotes

• We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

  Hubert Humphrey

• Unfortunately, our affluent society has also been an effluent society.

  Hubert Humphrey

• Today we know that World War II began not in 1939 or 1941 but in the 1920’s and 1930’s when those who should have known better persuaded themselves that they were not their brother’s keeper.

  Hubert Humphrey

• To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.

  Hubert Humphrey

• To be realistic today is to be visionary. To be realistic is to be starry-eyed.

  Hubert Humphrey

• This, then, is the test we must set for ourselves; not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.

  Hubert Humphrey

• 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.

  Hubert Humphrey

• There are those who say to you – we are rushing this issue of civil rights. I say we are 172 years late.

  Hubert Humphrey

• There are not enough jails, not enough police, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people.

  Hubert Humphrey

• here are incalculable resources in the human spirit, once it has been set free.

  Hubert Humphrey

• The Senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions, and if the road to hell is paved with them, then it’s a pretty good detour.

  Hubert Humphrey

• The President has only 190 million bosses. The Vice President has 190 million and one.

  Hubert Humphrey

• The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.

  Hubert Humphrey

• The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.

  Hubert Humphrey

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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.

  Hubert Humphrey

• The difference between hearsay and prophecy is often one of sequence. Hearsay often turns out to have been prophecy.

  Hubert Humphrey

• Propaganda, to be effective, must be believed. To be believed, it must be credible. To be credible, it must be true.

  Hubert Humphrey

• Never give up on anybody.

  Hubert Humphrey

• Never give in and never give up.

  Hubert Humphrey

• Never answer a question from a farmer.

  Hubert Humphrey

Hubert Humphrey (46)

Birth:	27th May, 1911
Death:	13th January, 1978
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Politician

About

Hubert Horatio Humphrey, Jr. was born in Wallace, South Dakota, USA. He was an American politician who served as the 38th Vice President of the United States from 1965 to 1969. He twice served in the United States Senate, representing Minnesota from 1949 to 1964 and 1971 to 1978. He was the nominee of the Democratic Party in the 1968 presidential election, losing to the Republican nominee Richard M. Nixon. He attended the University of Minnesota before earning his pharmacist license from the Capitol College of Pharmacy in 1931. He earned his master's degree from Louisiana State University in 1940. In 1943, he served as a professor of Political Science at Macalester College. He served as Mayor of Minneapolis from 1945-1948.

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