Hubert H. Humphrey Quotes

American - Politician May 27, 1911 - January 13, 1978

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

Hubert H. Humphrey

Life Friendship Gift Greatest Gift

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Hubert H. Humphrey

Friendship Love Moving On Healing

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

Hubert H. Humphrey

Politics Blame Someone Human

Never give in and never give up.

Hubert H. Humphrey

Motivational Never Give Up Never Up

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.

Hubert H. Humphrey

Alone March Wish Way

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

Hubert H. Humphrey

Man Wife Proud Mother-In-Law

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

Hubert H. Humphrey

Freedom Debate Discussion Out Anvil

Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.

Hubert H. Humphrey

Man Mother-In-Law Successful Man

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

Hubert H. Humphrey

Compassion Socialism Weakness Concern

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

Hubert H. Humphrey

Today Realistic Visionary

Top 10
Hubert H. Humphrey
Quotes

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.

Hubert H. Humphrey

Life Children Sick Government

Never answer a question from a farmer.

Hubert H. Humphrey

Farmer Never Answer Question

I learned more about the economy from one South Dakota dust storm that I did in all my years of college.

Hubert H. Humphrey

Storm College More Years

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

Hubert H. Humphrey

Seriously Right Taken Heard

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.

Hubert H. Humphrey

Life Rose Name Important

It is not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left.

Hubert H. Humphrey

You Away Left Take

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.

Hubert H. Humphrey

Smoke Think Wilderness See

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

Hubert H. Humphrey

Free Human Spirit Human Spirit

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.

Hubert H. Humphrey

Marriage Politics Knowledge Loyalty

Never give up on anybody.

Hubert H. Humphrey

Never Give Up Never Up Give

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

Hubert H. Humphrey

Life Change Opportunity Adventure

If there is dissatisfaction with the status quo, good. If there is ferment, so much the better. If there is restlessness, I am pleased. Then let there be ideas, and hard thought, and hard work. If man feels small, let man make himself bigger.

Hubert H. Humphrey

Work Hard Work Good Man

The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

Hubert H. Humphrey

Future Past Essence Concern

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

Hubert H. Humphrey

Government Never Neighbor Hand

There are those who say to you - we are rushing this issue of civil rights. I say we are 172 years late.

Hubert H. Humphrey

You Late Say Who

Liberalism, above all, means emancipation - emancipation from one's fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination, from poverty.

Hubert H. Humphrey

Discrimination Poverty Prejudice His

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