Hubert H. Humphrey
Hubert H. Humphrey
Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr.was an American politician who served as the 38th Vice President of the United States under President Lyndon B. Johnson, from 1965 to 1969. Humphrey twice served in the United States Senate, representing Minnesota from 1949 to 1964 and 1971 to 1978. He was the nominee of the Democratic Party in the 1968 presidential election, losing to the Republican nominee, Richard M. Nixon...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth27 May 1911
CityWallace, SD
CountryUnited States of America
You can't hoot with the owls and then soar with the eagles
Profit and morality are a hard combination to beat.
National isolation breeds national neurosis.
The moral test of a society is how that society treats those who are in the dawn of life: the children; ... the elderly.
More progress results from the violent execution of an imperfect plan than the perfection of a plan to violently execute.
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.
Unfortunately, our affluent society has also been an effluent society.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I learned more about the economy from one South Dakota dust storm that I did in all my years of college.
There are not enough jails, not enough police, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people.