Hubert H. Humphrey Quotes About Wisdom
-
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.
→ -
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.
→ -
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.
→ -
Just be what you are and speak from your guts and heart - it's all a person has.
→ -
The leadership for civil rights has to take place in the White House or it is going to take place in the streets.
→ -
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.
→ -
The gap between the rich and the poor is the most dangerous threat to world peace we have.
→ -
My philosophy has always been that benefits should percolate up rather than trickle down.
→ -
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.
→ -
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.
→ -
Capital, and the question of who owns it and therefore reaps the benefit of its productiveness, is an extremely important issue that is complementary to the issue of full employment... I see these as twin pillars of our economy: Full employment of our labor resources and widespread ownership of our capital resources. Such twin pillars would go a long way in providing a firm underlying support for future economic growth that would be equitably shared.
→ -
There is a lot of difference between failure and defeat. Failure is when you are defeated and neither learn nor contribute anything.
→ -
What do we want for people? Human dignity, personal expression and fulfillment, justice, freedom.
→ -
What you do, what each of us does, has an effect on the country, the state, the nation, and the world.
→ -
Equality means equality for all - no exceptions, no 'yes, buts', no asterisked footnotes imposing limits.
→ -
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.
→ -
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.
→ -
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.
→ -
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 .
→ -
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.
→ -
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?
→ -
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 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."
→ -
You can always debate about what you should have done. The question is what are you going to do?
→
Hubert H. Humphrey
- Born: May 27, 1911
- Died: January 13, 1978
- Occupation: Former Vice President of the United States
Related Authors
-
Walter F. Mondale Former Vice President of the United States -
Barry Goldwater Former United States Senator -
Nelson Rockefeller Former Vice President of the United States -
Harry S. Truman 33rd U.S. President -
George C. Wallace Former Governor of Alabama -
Richard J. Daley Former Mayor of Chicago -
Spiro T. Agnew Former Vice President of the United States -
Richard M. Nixon 37th U.S. President -
John F. Kennedy 35th U.S. President -
Lyndon B. Johnson 36th U.S. President -
Eugene McCarthy Former United States Senator -
Robert Kennedy Former U.S. Senator -
Thurgood Marshall Former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States -
George McGovern Historian -
Lady Bird Johnson Former First Lady of the United States -
Robert McNamara Former United States Secretary of Defense -
Earl Warren Former Chief Justice of the United States -
Casey Stengel Baseball Manager -
Gerald R. Ford 38th U.S. President -
Edmund Muskie Former Governor of Maine