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

Hubert H. Humphrey

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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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" National isolation breeds national neurosis. "

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

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" I learnt more about politics during one South Dakota dust storm than in seven years at the university. "

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

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

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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

" 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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" Never give in and never give up. "

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

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

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" Never give up on anybody. "

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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. "

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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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