WIST Quotations

Humphrey, Hubert -- (Attributed, 1976)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

Oh, my friend, it’s not what they take away from you that counts. It’s what you do with what you have left.

Hubert Horatio Humphrey (1911-1978) American politician
(Attributed, 1976)

Comment after cancer surgery to remove his bladder.

Humphrey, Hubert -- (Attributed)

Dave — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 12:52:51 +0000

We believe that to err is human. To blame it on someone else is politics.

Hubert Horatio Humphrey (1911-1978) American politician
(Attributed)

Humphrey, Hubert -- Beyond Civil Rights: A New Day of Equality (1968)

Dave — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 14:37:06 +0000

What we need are critical lovers of America — patriots who express their faith in their country by working to improve it.

Hubert Horatio Humphrey (1911-1978) American politician
Beyond Civil Rights: A New Day of Equality (1968)

Humphrey, Hubert -- The Cause is Mankind (1964)

Dave — Wed, 28 Aug 2013 11:15:57 +0000

We are the standard-bearers in the only really authentic revolution, the democratic revolution against tyrannies. Our strength is not to be measured by our military capacity alone, by our industry, or by our technology. We will be remembered, not for the power of our weapons, but for the power of our compassion, our dedication to human welfare.

Hubert Horatio Humphrey (1911-1978) American politician
The Cause is Mankind (1964)

Humphrey, Hubert -- Address, National Book Awards, New York City (8 Mar 1967)

Dave — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 14:58:24 +0000

The vast number of titles which are published each year — all of them are to the good, even if some of them may annoy or even repel us for a time. For none of us would trade freedom of expression and of ideas for the narrowness of the public censor. America is a free market for people who have something to say, and need not fear to say it.

Hubert Horatio Humphrey (1911-1978) American politician
Address, National Book Awards, New York City (8 Mar 1967)

Humphrey, Hubert -- Democratic National Convention, Philadelphia (14 Jul 1948)

Dave — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 13:54:33 +0000

We can’t use a double standard — there’s no room for double standards in American politics — for measuring our own and other people’s policies. Our demands for democratic practices in other lands will be no more effective than the guarantee of those practices in our own country.

Hubert Horatio Humphrey (1911-1978) American politician
Democratic National Convention, Philadelphia (14 Jul 1948)

Humphrey, Hubert -- Remarks, Dedication of the Hubert H. Humphrey Building (1 Nov 1977)

Dave — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 18:54:43 +0000

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.

Hubert Horatio Humphrey (1911-1978) American politician
Remarks, Dedication of the Hubert H. Humphrey Building (1 Nov 1977)

Cited in the Congressional Register, vol. 123, p. 37287 (4 Nov 1977)

Humphrey, Hubert -- Speech, Buffalo (7 Jan 1967)

Dave — Thu, 05 Jun 2014 14:21:21 +0000

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.

Hubert Horatio Humphrey (1911-1978) American politician
Speech, Buffalo (7 Jan 1967)

Humphrey, Hubert -- Speech, Democratic National Convention, Philadelphia (14 Jul 1948)

Dave — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 13:34:47 +0000

To those who say — My friends, to those who say that we are rushing this issue of civil rights, I say to them we are 172 years late. To those who say — To those who say that this civil-rights program is an infringement on states’ rights, I say this: The time has arrived in America for the Democratic party to get out of the shadow of states’ rights and to walk forthrightly into the bright sunshine of human rights.

Hubert Horatio Humphrey (1911-1978) American politician
Speech, Democratic National Convention, Philadelphia (14 Jul 1948)

Humphrey, Hubert -- Speech, Democratic State Convention, Little Rock, Arkansas (18 Sep 1964)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

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

Hubert Horatio Humphrey (1911-1978) American politician
Speech, Democratic State Convention, Little Rock, Arkansas (18 Sep 1964)

Humphrey, Hubert -- Speech, Minnesota State AFL-CIO Convention (1977)

Dave — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 15:22:23 +0000

The story of the labor movement needs to be taught in every school in this land. … America is a living testimonial to what free men and women, organized in free democratic trade unions can do to make a better life … we ought to be proud of it!

Hubert Horatio Humphrey (1911-1978) American politician
Speech, Minnesota State AFL-CIO Convention (1977)

Humphrey, Hubert -- Speech, National Assoc. of Counties, New Orleans (18 Jul 1966)

Dave — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 17:38:28 +0000

I’d hate to be in those [slum] conditions and I’ll tell you if I were in those conditions, you’d have more trouble than you have already because I’ve got enough spark left in me to lead a mighty good revolt.

Hubert Horatio Humphrey (1911-1978) American politician
Speech, National Assoc. of Counties, New Orleans (18 Jul 1966)

Humphrey, Hubert -- Speech, National Student Association, University of Wisconsin, Madison (23 Aug 1965)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.

Hubert Horatio Humphrey (1911-1978) American politician
Speech, National Student Association, University of Wisconsin, Madison (23 Aug 1965)

Humphrey, Hubert -- Speech, U. of Chicago (14 Jun 1966)

Dave — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 13:16:30 +0000

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.

Hubert Horatio Humphrey (1911-1978) American politician
Speech, U. of Chicago (14 Jun 1966)

Humphrey, Hubert -- Speech, Washington, DC (27 Apr 1968)

Dave — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 18:09:35 +0000

Here we are the way politics ought to be in America, the politics of happiness, the politics of purpose, and the politics of joy.

Hubert Horatio Humphrey (1911-1978) American politician
Speech, Washington, DC (27 Apr 1968)

Humphrey, Hubert -- Speech, Williamsburg, Virginia (1 May 1965)

Dave — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 13:19:43 +0000

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

Hubert Horatio Humphrey (1911-1978) American politician
Speech, Williamsburg, Virginia (1 May 1965)