Hubert H. Humphrey Quotes

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Hubert H. Humphrey

Profession : Politician

Birth : May 27, 1911

Never give up on anybody.

Hubert H. 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 H. Humphrey

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

Hubert H. 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 H. Humphrey

Liberalism, above all, means emancipation - emancipation from one's fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination, from poverty.

Hubert H. 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 H. Humphrey

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

Hubert H. Humphrey

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

Hubert H. Humphrey

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

Hubert H. Humphrey

Never answer a question from a farmer.

Hubert H. Humphrey

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

Hubert H. Humphrey

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

Hubert H. Humphrey

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

Hubert H. Humphrey

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

Hubert H. 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 H. Humphrey

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

Hubert H. Humphrey

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

Hubert H. 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 H. Humphrey

The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

Hubert H. Humphrey

National isolation breeds national neurosis.

Hubert H. Humphrey