Quotes by Hubert H. Humphrey

Leadership in todays world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.

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.

To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.

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

The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.

Never give in and never give up.

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.

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

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

This, then, is the test we must set for ourselves; not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.

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

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