Quotes By Hubert H. Humphrey

The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Foreign policy is really domestic policy with its hat on.

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

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

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

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

We believe that to err is human. To blame it on someone else is politics.

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

National isolation breeds national neurosis.

Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

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

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.

Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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