“Never give up on anybody.”
— Hubert H. Humphrey
“The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.”
“Never give in and never give up.”
“More progress results from the violent execution of an imperfect plan than the perfection of a plan to violently execute.”
“You can’t hoot with the owls and then soar with the eagles.”
“We live by hope. We do not ever get all we want when we want it. But we have to believe that someday, somehow, some way, it will be better and that we can make it so.”
“Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.”
“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.”
“The good old days were never that good, believe me. The good new days are today, and better days are coming tomorrow. Our greatest songs are still unsung.”
“The way we treat our children in the dawn of their lives and the way we treat our elderly in the twilight of their lives is a measure of the quality of a nation.”
“Peace is not passive, it is active. Peace is not appeasement, it is strength. Peace does not ‘happen,’ it requires work.”
“Life’s unfairness is not irrevocable; we can help balance the scales for others, if not always for ourselves.”
“It is not what they take away from you that counts. It’s what you do with what you have left.”
“Each child is an adventure into a better life – an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.”
“If I believe in something, I will fight for it, with all I have. But I do not demand all or nothing. I would rather get something than nothing.”
“Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.”
“Foreign policy is really domestic policy with its hat on.”
“What we need are critical lovers of America – patriots who express their faith in their country by working to improve it.”
“Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.”
“To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.”
“When the dignity of one person is denied, all of us are denied.”
“In the minds and hearts of the American people, there is a great hunger for peace based on a universal recognition of the values of freedom and human dignity.”
“Behind every successful man is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law.”
“There is a great deal of difference between living and surviving. You can survive in debauchery, even in sickness and despair. But you live with a spirit of vitality and a spirit of participation, of being wanted, and having something to contribute.”
“My favorite sandwich is peanut butter, baloney, cheddar cheese, lettuce, and mayonnaise on toasted bread with catsup on the side.”
“The road to freedom, here and everywhere, begins in the classroom.”
“Our greatest songs are still unsung.”
“The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.”
“To be realistic today is to be visionary. To be realistic is to be starry-eyed.”
“Just be what you are and speak from your guts and heart – it’s all a person has.”
“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.”
“It is always a risk to speak to the press: they are likely to report what you say.”
“Unfortunately, our affluent society has also been an effluent society.”
“Surely anyone who has ever been elected to public office understands that one commodity above all others, namely the trust and confidence of the people, is fundamental in maintaining a free and open political system.”
“It is all too easy for a society to measure itself against some abstract philosophical principle or political slogan. But in the end, there must remain the question: What kind of life is one society providing to the people that live in it?”
“The measure of a civilization is how it treats those at the dawn of life, the margins of life and the twilight of life.”
“American public opinion is like an ocean, it cannot be stirred by a teaspoon.”
“You can always debate about what you should have done. The question is what are you going to do?”
“In life it isn’t what you’ve lost, it’s what you’ve got left that counts.”
“You cannot tell a poor boy from a small country town on the plains of South Dakota who has had the opportunity to be a teacher, a mayor, a senator, and a vice president, that America is not a nation of promise.”
“The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.”
“The history of the labor movement needs to be taught in every school in this land. America is a living testimonial to what free men and women, organized in free democratic trade unions can do to make a better life. We ought to be proud of it!”
“There is no such thing as an acceptable level of unemployment, because hunger is not acceptable, poverty is not acceptable, poor health is not acceptable, and a ruined life is not acceptable.”
“The time has arrived in America for the Democratic Party to get out of the shadows of states rights and walk forthrightly into the bright sunshine of human rights.”
“We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.”
“Until racial justice and freedom is a reality in this land, our union will remain profoundly imperfect.”
“There are not enough jails, not enough police, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people.”
“The gap between the rich and the poor is the most dangerous threat to world peace we have.”
“We cannot use a double standard for measuring our own and other people’s policies. Our demands for democratic practices in other lands will be no more effective than the guarantees of those practiced in our own country.”
“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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