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Wisdom Quotes by Hubert H. Humphrey
- Just be what you are and speak from your guts and heart - it's all a person has.
- Like many things in our national life, we miscalculated. We overestimated our ability to control events, which is one of the great dangers of a…
- In this time of national crises...per haps we would do well to spend a few minutes in considering projects which grace and embellish the earth,…
- The leadership for civil rights has to take place in the White House or it is going to take place in the streets.
- I am not here to judge whether people are locked in poverty because of themselves or because of the society in which they live. All…
- There is a great deal of difference between living and surviving. You can survive in debauchery, even in sickness and despair. But you live with…
- When we say, 'One nation under God, with liberty and justice for all', we are talking about all people. We either ought to believe it…
- What do we want for people? Human dignity, personal expression and fulfillment, justice, freedom.
- Equality means equality for all- no exceptions, no 'yes, buts', no asterisked footnotes imposing limits.
- Hubert Humphrey with kids"Be clear where America stands. Human brotherhood and equal opportunity for every man, woman, and child, we are committed to it, in…
- I believe that each of us can make a difference. That what is wrong can be made right. That people possess the basic wisdom and…
- There is a lot of difference between failure and defeat. Failure is when you are defeated and neither learn nor contribute anything.
- My philosophy has always been that benefits should percolate up rather than trickle down.
- You cannot tell a poor boy from a small country town on the plains of South Dakota who has had the opportunity to be a…
- The message of the United States is not nuclear power. The message of the United States is a spiritual message. It is the message of…
- There is no such thing as an acceptable level of unemployment, because hunger is not acceptable, poverty is not acceptable, poor health is not acceptable,…
- In the minds and hearts of the American people, there is a great hunger for peace based on a universal recognition of the values of…
- The gap between the rich and the poor is the most dangerous threat to world peace we have.
- We need an America with the wisdom of experience. But we must not let America grow old in spirit.
More Wisdom Quotes
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom. — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- You teach best what you most need to learn. — Richard Bach
- Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand. — Neil Armstrong
- The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. — Matthew Arnold