Frasi di Hubert Humphrey

„La libertà è il virus più contagioso che l'umanità abbia mai conosciuto.“

La libertà

„Rappresentiamo la strada della politica da percorrere qui in America, la politica della felicità, la politica del giusto fine, la politica della gioia.“

Gioia, Sulla felicità

„La pubblica opinione americana è come l'oceano: non può essere mescolata da un cucchiaino da caffè.“

caffè

„L'Asia è ricca di gente, ricca di cultura e ricca di risorse. È anche ricca di guai.“

„Compassione non è debolezza, e preoccuparsi dei più sfortunati non è socialismo.“

„The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.“

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

„The moral test of government is how it treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the aged; and those in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.“

— Hubert H. Humphrey
Remarks at the dedication of the Hubert H. Humphrey Building, November 1, 1977, Congressional Record, November 4, 1977, vol 123, p. 37287.

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

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

„I had no money to buy books, so between classes and work, I haunted the library. I even tutored in French with a sliding scale of payment: twenty dollars for an A, fifteen for a B, ten for a C, five for a D.“

— Hubert H. Humphrey
Of his university years. From Hubert H. Humphrey, The Education of a Public Man: My Life and Politics 43 (1976)

„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 H. Humphrey
Address to the Democratic National Convention http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/huberthumphey1948dnc.html (July 14, 1948), Convention Hall, Philadelphia.

„I wish to suggest that ample opportunity does exist for dissent, for protest, and for nonconformity. But I must also say that the right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.“

— Hubert H. Humphrey
Address to the National Student Council (1965)

„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 H. Humphrey
Address to the Democratic National Convention http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/huberthumphey1948dnc.html (July 14, 1948), Convention Hall, Philadelphia.

„I learned more about economics from one South Dakota dust storm than I did in all my years at college.“