Hubert H. Humphrey (1911-1978)

Quotes

• There are not enough jails, not enough policemen, not even enough courts too enforce a law not supported by the people.

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

• 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.

• You cannot go around and keep score. If you keep score on the good things and the bad things, you'll find out that you're a very miserable person. God gave man the ability to forget, which is one of the greatest attributes you have. Because if you remember everything that's happened to you, you generally remember that which is the most unfortunate.

• Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left.

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

• 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.

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

• We need an America with the wisdom of experience. But we must not let America grow old in spirit.

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