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

Hubert H. Humphrey

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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" Never give in and never give up. "

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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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