60 ordspråk av Hubert H. Humphrey

US  Hubert H. Humphrey

Hubert H. Humphrey föddes den May 27th 1911 och dog den 13 January 1978 - under Lyndon B. Johnson (1965-69) and US Senator from Minnesota (1949-64, 1971-78).
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 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.

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

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

 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.

 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.

 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.

 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.

 It is not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left.

 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.

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

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

 National isolation breeds national neurosis.

 Never answer a question from a farmer.

 Never give in and never give up.

 Never give up on anybody.


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