You can't hoot with the owls and then soar with the eagles Hubert H. Humphrey More Quotes by Hubert H. Humphrey More Quotes From Hubert H. Humphrey To be realistic today is to be visionary. To be realistic is to be starry-eyed. Hubert H. Humphrey visionaries today reality 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 freedom and human dignity. Hubert H. Humphrey wisdom heart people The President has only 190 million bosses. The Vice President has 190 million and one. Hubert H. Humphrey boss vices president 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. Hubert H. Humphrey expression america people We will have to decide today whether we will design the future or resign ourselves to it. Hubert H. Humphrey planning design today If the Senator can find in Title VII any language which provides that an employer will have to hire on the basis of percentage or quota related to color, race, religion, or national origin, I will start eating the pages one after another, because it is not in there. Hubert H. Humphrey titles color race The road to freedom, here and everywhere, begins in the classroom. Hubert H. Humphrey classroom teaching Surely anyone who has ever been elected to public office understands that one commodity above all others, namely the trust and confidence of the people, is fundamental in maintaining a free and open political system. Hubert H. Humphrey political office people 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. Hubert H. Humphrey land wisdom country History teaches us that the great revolutions aren't started by people who are utterly down and out, without hope and vision. They take place when people begin to live a little better - and when they see how much yet remains to be achieved. Hubert H. Humphrey down-and vision people The great challenge which faces us is to assure that, in our society of big-ness, we do not strangle the voice of creativity, that the rules of the game do not come to overshadow its purpose, that the grand orchestration of society leaves ample room for the man who marches to the music of another drummer. Hubert H. Humphrey creativity games men And it is to these rights - the right of law and order, the right of life, the right of liberty, the right of a job, the right of a home in a decent neighborhood, and the right to an education - it is to these rights that I pledge my life and whatever capacity and ability I have. Hubert H. Humphrey work home jobs This is the first generation in all of recorded history that can do something about the scourge of poverty. We have the means to do it. We can banish hunger from the face of the earth. Hubert H. Humphrey generations wisdom mean 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 great power. Power tends to be a substitute for judgment and wisdom. Hubert H. Humphrey judgment events power 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, instead of shaking it. Hubert H. Humphrey grace wisdom earth 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 teacher, a mayor, a senator, and a vice president, that America is not a nation of promise. Hubert H. Humphrey wisdom teacher country Anyone who thinks that the vice-president can take a position independent of the president of his administration simply has no knowledge of politics or government. You are his choice in a political marriage, and he expects your absolute loyalty. Hubert H. Humphrey independent loyalty thinking 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. Hubert H. Humphrey profile institutions compassion It is not enough to merely defend democracy. To defend it may be to lose it; to extend it is to strengthen it. Democracy is not property; it is an idea. Hubert H. Humphrey democracy may ideas 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 America and around the world." Hubert H. Humphrey wisdom kids children
