Quotes By Hubert H. Humphrey

Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

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

Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

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.

Never answer a question from a farmer.

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

For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Propaganda, to be effective, must be believed. To be believed, it must be credible. To be credible, it must be true.

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

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