The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.
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Quotes by Hubert H. Humphrey
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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.
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.
Behind every successful man is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law.
Never give in and never give up.
To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.
Foreign policy is really domestic policy with its hat on.
Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.
Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.
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.
Today we know that World War II began not in 1939 or 1941 but in the 1920's and 1930's when those who should have known better persuaded themselves that they were not their brother's keeper.
Asia is rich in people, rich in culture and rich in resources. It is also rich in trouble.
There are not enough jails, not enough police, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people.
Never give up on anybody.
The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.
It is not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left.
Propaganda, to be effective, must be believed. To be believed, it must be credible. To be credible, it must be true.
The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.
Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.
Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
Liberalism, above all, means emancipation - emancipation from one's fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination, from poverty.
Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.
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.
American public opinion is like an ocean, it cannot be stirred by a teaspoon.
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