Hubert H. Humphrey

For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end.

I learned more about the economy from one South Dakota dust storm that I did in all my years of college.

Liberalism, above all, means emancipation - emancipation from one's fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination, from poverty.

Propaganda, to be effective, must be believed. To be believed, it must be credible. To be credible, it must be true.

It is not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left.

We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

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

To be realistic today is to be visionary. To be realistic is to be starry-eyed.

Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

The Senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions, and if the road to hell is paved with them, then it's a pretty good detour.

I learnt more about politics during one South Dakota dust storm than in seven years at the university.

If there is dissatisfaction with the status quo, good. If there is ferment, so much the better. If there is restlessness, I am pleased. Then let there be ideas, and hard thought, and hard work. If man feels small, let man make himself bigger.

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.

There are not enough jails, not enough police, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people.

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.

The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

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

There is in every American, I think, something of the old Daniel Boone - who, when he could see the smoke from another chimney, felt himself too crowded and moved further out into the wilderness.

Never give up on anybody.

A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.

National isolation breeds national neurosis.

There are incalculable resources in the human spirit, once it has been set free.

American public opinion is like an ocean, it cannot be stirred by a teaspoon.

There are those who say to you - we are rushing this issue of civil rights. I say we are 172 years late.

Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.