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The difference between hearsay and prophecy is often one of sequence. Hearsay often turns out to have been prophecy.
Written by Hubert H. Humphrey
It is not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left.
Written by Hubert H. Humphrey
Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
Written by Hubert H. Humphrey
The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.
Written by Hubert H. Humphrey
There are not enough jails, not enough police, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people.
Written by Hubert H. Humphrey
To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.
Written by Hubert H. Humphrey
I learnt more about politics during one South Dakota dust storm than in seven years at the university.
Written by 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.
Written by Hubert H. Humphrey
Never give in and never give up.
Written by Hubert H. Humphrey
Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.
Written by Hubert H. Humphrey
I learned more about the economy from one South Dakota dust storm that I did in all my years of college.
Written by Hubert H. Humphrey
Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.
Written by 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.
Written by 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.
Written by Hubert H. Humphrey
Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.
Written by 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.
Written by 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.
Written by 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.
Written by Hubert H. Humphrey
Behind every successful man is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law.
Written by Hubert H. Humphrey
The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.
Written by 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.
Written by Hubert H. Humphrey
Never answer a question from a farmer.
Written by Hubert H. Humphrey
The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.
Written by Hubert H. Humphrey
Unfortunately, our affluent society has also been an effluent society.
Written by Hubert H. Humphrey
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.
Written by Hubert H. Humphrey
The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.
Written by Hubert H. Humphrey
The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.
Written by Hubert H. Humphrey
Never give up on anybody.
Written by 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.
Written by Hubert H. Humphrey
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.
Written by Hubert H. Humphrey

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