Quotes from Hubert H. Humphrey

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

Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.

Behind every successful man is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law.

Peace of mind is another way of saying that you've learned how to love, that you have come to appreciate the importance of giving love in order to be worthy of receiving it.

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

Never answer a question from a farmer.

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.

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

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

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.

The good old days were never that good, believe me. The good new days are today, and better days are coming tomorrow. Our greatest songs are still unsung.

Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens to keep and bear arms.

Just be what you are and speak from your guts and heart - it's all a person has.

We will be remembered not for the power of our weapons but for the power of our compassion, our dedication to human welfare.

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

Foreign policy is really domestic policy with its hat on.

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

The difference between hearsay and prophecy is often one of sequence. Hearsay often turns out to have been prophecy.

The leadership for civil rights has to take place in the White House or it is going to take place in the streets.

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.

The moral test of a society is how that society treats those who are in the dawn of life: the children; ... the elderly.

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

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