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• Peace is not passive, it is active. Peace is not appeasement, it is strength. Peace does not 'happen,' it requires work.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Peace, Doe, Appeasement

  "Obama’s Peace Assets in the Middle East" by Rabbi Michael M. Cohen, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 22, 2013.

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• Never answer a question from a farmer.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Answers, Politics, Politician

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• Never give up on anybody.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Inspirational, Giving Up, Quitting

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• As we begin to comprehend that the earth itself is a kind of manned spaceship hurtling through the infinity of space ~ it will seem increasingly absurd that we have not better organized the life of the human family.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Life, Nature, Space

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• 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

  Hippie, Rights, Years

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• The President has only 190 million bosses. The Vice President has 190 million and one.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Boss, President, Vices

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• 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.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Hope, Believe, Want

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• Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens to keep and bear arms.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Freedom, Independent, Gun

  "Know Your Lawmaker". Guns magazine, p. 4, February 1960.

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• The ugliness of bigotry stands in direct contradiction to the very meaning of America.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  America, Liberty, Contradiction

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• The measure of a civilization is how it treats those at the dawn of life, the margins of life and the twilight of life.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Twilight, Civilization, Dawn

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• 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

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• We can not expect to breed respect for law and order among people who do not share the fruits of our freedom.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Order, Law, People

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• 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

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• Life's unfairness is not irrevocable; we can help balance the scales for others, if not always for ourselves.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Pain, Justice, Suffering

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• Unfortunately, our affluent society has also been an effluent society.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Society, Affluence, Pollution

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• It is always a risk to speak to the press: they are likely to report what you say.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Risk, Training, Speak

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

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Wisdom, Philosophy, Benefits

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

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Wisdom, World, Gaps

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• 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

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• What we need are critical lovers of America - patriots who express their faith in their country by working to improve it.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Country, Patriotic, Usa

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• People in places many of us never heard of, whose names we can't pronounce or even spell, are speaking up for themselves. They speak in languages we once classified as exotic but whose mastery is now essential for our diplomats and businessmen. But what they say is very much the same the world over. They want a decent standard of living. They want human dignity and a voice in their own futures. They want their children to grow up strong and healthy and free.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Strong, Children, Growing Up

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• Our opposition will never understand the Democratic Party. Our Party is--to the unpracticed eyes of the old Republican Tories--a mysterious contraption that usually seems to be moving in a thousand directions. What they don't know is what hurts them. For all that movement in the Democratic Party is caused by the internal combustion of creative ferment, of ideas, of people vigorously committed to the proposition that change and social progress are not only to be desired; they are necessities of twentieth-century America.

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  Hurt, Moving, Party

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• 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, Real, Names

  Speech in Washington, D.C., March 26, 1966.

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• 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?

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  Wisdom, Philosophical, People

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• My friends, to those who say that we are rushing this issue of civil rights, I say to them we are 172 years late. To those who say that this civil-rights program is an infringement on states’ rights, I say this: The time has arrived in America for the Democratic Party to get out of the shadow of states' rights and to walk forthrightly into the bright sunshine of human rights.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Party, Sunshine, Rights

  Address at Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, www.americanrhetoric.com. July 14, 1948.

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