Hubert Humphrey Quotes

• National isolation breeds national neurosis.

  Hubert Humphrey

• Liberalism, above all, means emancipation – emancipation from one’s fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination, from poverty.

  Hubert Humphrey

• Leadership in today’s world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.

  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 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.

  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

• If there is dissatisfaction with the status quo, good. If there is ferment, so much the better. If there is restlessness, I am pleased. Then let there be ideas, and hard thought, and hard work. If man feels small, let man make himself bigger.

  Hubert Humphrey

• I learnt more about politics during one South Dakota dust storm than in seven years at the university.

  Hubert Humphrey

• I learned more about the economy from one South Dakota dust storm that I did in all my years of college.

  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.

  Hubert Humphrey

• Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

  Hubert Humphrey

• Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.

  Hubert Humphrey

• Foreign policy is really domestic policy with its hat on.

  Hubert Humphrey

• For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end.

  Hubert Humphrey

• Each child is an adventure into a better life – an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

  Hubert Humphrey

• Behind every successful man is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law.

  Hubert Humphrey

• Asia is rich in people, rich in culture and rich in resources. It is also rich in trouble

  Hubert Humphrey

• Anyone who thinks that the vice-president can take a position independent of the president of his administration simply has no knowledge of politics or government. You are his choice in a political marriage, and he expects your absolute loyalty.

  Hubert Humphrey

• American public opinion is like an ocean, it cannot be stirred by a teaspoon.

  Hubert Humphrey

• A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.

  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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