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

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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" 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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" Anyone who thinks that the vice-president can take a position independent of the president of his administration simply has no knowledge of politics or government. You are his choice in a political marriage, and he expects your absolute loyalty. "

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

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

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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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" 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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" National isolation breeds national neurosis. "

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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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" 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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