Hubert H Humphrey Quotes

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

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 shadows of life, the sick, the needy, and the handicapped.

Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.

In life it isn't what you've lost, it's what you've got left that counts

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.

The moral test of government is how it 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.

We cannot use a double standard for measuring our own and other people's policies. Our demands for democratic practices in other lands will be no more effective than the guarantees of those practiced in our own country.

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.

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

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

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

You cannot go around and keep score. If you keep score on the good things and the bad things, you'll find out that you're a very miserable person. God gave man the ability to forget, which is one of the greatest attributes you have. Because if you remember everything that's happened to you, you generally remember that which is the most unfortunate.

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

Never give in and never give up.

Life's unfairness is not irrevocable; we can help balance the scales for others, if not always for ourselves.

Today we know that World War II began not in 1939 or 1941 but in the 1920s and 1930s when those who should have known better persuaded themselves that they were not their brother's keeper.

Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of the citizens to keep and bear arms. [...] the right of the citizens to bear arms is just one guarantee against arbitrary government and one more safeguard against a tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible.

Never give in,never give up,never surrender no matter what!

Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts -- it's what you do with what you have left.

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

Johnson had a sense of humor, and he could kid with me,” he would say. “Johnson didn’t enjoy talking with most liberals. He didn’t think they had a sense of humor.

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

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

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love" Hubert H. Humphrey

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love" Hubert. H Humphrey

Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate. —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.