Hubert H. Humphrey Quotes About Wit

Quotes about: Wit

• When we say, 'One nation under God, with liberty and justice for all', we are talking about all people. We either ought to believe it or quit saying it .

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Wisdom, Believe, Justice For All

• I believe that each of us can make a difference. That what is wrong can be made right. That people possess the basic wisdom and goodness to govern themselves without conflict.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Wisdom, Believe, Differences

• 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.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Wisdom, Unemployment, Levels

• Equality means equality for all - no exceptions, no 'yes, buts', no asterisked footnotes imposing limits.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Wisdom, Mean, Limits

  "On the State of Our Politics - Commencement Message" by Eric Schwartz, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 18, 2016.

• What do we want for people? Human dignity, personal expression and fulfillment, justice, freedom.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Wisdom, Expression, People

• The leadership for civil rights has to take place in the White House or it is going to take place in the streets.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Wisdom, Rights, White

• You can always debate about what you should have done. The question is what are you going to do?

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Wisdom, Should Have, Done

• There is a lot of difference between failure and defeat. Failure is when you are defeated and neither learn nor contribute anything.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Wisdom, Differences, Defeat

• My philosophy has always been that benefits should percolate up rather than trickle down.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Wisdom, Philosophy, Benefits

• What you do, what each of us does, has an effect on the country, the state, the nation, and the world.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Wisdom, Country, Doe

• 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.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Wisdom, Country, Land

  1948 Democratic National Convention Address, delivered 14 July 1948, Philadelphia, PA

• This is the first generation in all of recorded history that can do something about the scourge of poverty. We have the means to do it. We can banish hunger from the face of the earth.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Wisdom, Mean, Generations

• In this time of national crises...per haps we would do well to spend a few minutes in considering projects which grace and embellish the earth, instead of shaking it.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Wisdom, Grace, Earth

• I am not here to judge whether people are locked in poverty because of themselves or because of the society in which they live. All I know is that they are there and we are trying to do something about it.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Wisdom, People, Judging

• 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.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Wisdom, Differences, Despair

• 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.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Wisdom, Country, Teacher

• The message of the United States is not nuclear power. The message of the United States is a spiritual message. It is the message of human ideals; it is the message of human dignity; it is the message of the freedom of ideas, speech, press, the right to assemble, to worship, and the message of freedom of movement of people.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Ideas

• 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.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Wisdom, Heart, People

• Hubert Humphrey with kids"Be clear where America stands. Human brotherhood and equal opportunity for every man, woman, and child, we are committed to it, in America and around the world."

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Wisdom, Children, Kids

• The gap between the rich and the poor is the most dangerous threat to world peace we have.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Wisdom, World, Gaps

• 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?

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Wisdom, Philosophical, People

• 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.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Wisdom, Believe, Fighting

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