Hubert H. Humphrey Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)
Hubert H. Humphrey quotes and sayings page 4 (deceased politician born on May 27, 1911). Here's quote # 31 through 40 out of the 46 we have for him.
“To be realistic today is to be visionary. To be realistic is to be starry-eyed.”
“There are those who say to you - we are rushing this issue of civil rights. I say we are 172 years late.”
“I learned more about the economy from one South Dakota dust storm that I did in all my years of college.”
“The difference between hearsay and prophecy is often one of sequence. Hearsay often turns out to have been prophecy.”
“The President has only 190 million bosses. The Vice President has 190 million and one.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.”
“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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