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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. "
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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" The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor. "
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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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" The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it. "
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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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" National isolation breeds national neurosis. "
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