Quotes from Hubert H. Humphrey

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

You cannot go around and keep score. If you keep score on the good things and the bad things, you'll find out that you're a very miserable person. God gave man the ability to forget, which is one of the greatest attributes you have. Because if you remember everything that's happened to you, you generally remember that which is the most unfortunate.

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.

We cannot use a double standard for measuring our own and other people's policies. Our demands for democratic practices in other lands will be no more effective than the guarantees of those practiced in our own country.

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

Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of the citizens to keep and bear arms. [...] the right of the citizens to bear arms is just one guarantee against arbitrary government and one more safeguard against a tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible.

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

Never give in and never give up.

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

Life's unfairness is not irrevocable; we can help balance the scales for others, if not always for ourselves.

Today we know that World War II began not in 1939 or 1941 but in the 1920s and 1930s when those who should have known better persuaded themselves that they were not their brother's keeper.

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

Never give in,never give up,never surrender no matter what!

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

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

Johnson had a sense of humor, and he could kid with me," he would say. "Johnson didn't enjoy talking with most liberals. He didn't think they had a sense of humor.

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.

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

Johnson had a sense of humor, and he could kid with me, " he would say. "Johnson didn't enjoy talking with most liberals. He didn't think they had a sense of humor.

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

When the dignity of one person is denied, all of us are denied.

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

None of us would trade freedom of expression 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.

My favorite sandwich is peanut butter, baloney, cheddar cheese, lettuce, and mayonnaise on toasted bread with catsup on the side.