3 December 2020 Hubert H. 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Hubert H. Humphrey We believe that to err is human. To blame it on someone else is politics.
3 December 2020 Hubert H. 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.
3 December 2020 Hubert H. Humphrey Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.
3 December 2020 Hubert H. Humphrey I learnt more about politics during one South Dakota dust storm than in seven years at the university.
3 December 2020 Hubert H. Humphrey A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Hubert H. 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Hubert H. Humphrey Each child is an adventure into a better life – an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.
3 December 2020 Hubert H. Humphrey Unfortunately, our affluent society has also been an effluent society.
3 December 2020 Hubert H. 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.
3 December 2020 Hubert H. Humphrey Leadership in today’s world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Hubert H. Humphrey The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.
3 December 2020 Hubert H. Humphrey The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.
