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

Hubert H. Humphrey

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" 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. "

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" Asia is rich in people, rich in culture and rich in resources. It is also rich in trouble. "

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

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

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

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" Never answer a question from a farmer. "

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

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

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

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

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" Foreign policy is really domestic policy with its hat on. "

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

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

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

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

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" Never give in and never give up. "

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" 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. "

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" The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love. "

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" Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man. "

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

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

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

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

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

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" 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. "

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

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

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