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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. "

Hubert H. Humphrey

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

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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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" 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. "

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" Never give in and never give up. "

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" Never give up on anybody. "

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" National isolation breeds national neurosis. "

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

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" To be realistic today is to be visionary. To be realistic is to be starry-eyed. "

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

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

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" Never answer a question from a farmer. "

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

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

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" 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. "

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Good Intentions

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

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

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

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

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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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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Hubert H. Humphrey

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

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

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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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