Frasi di Hubert Humphrey

„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

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

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

La libertà

„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.“

„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.“

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

„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.“

— Hubert H. Humphrey
Reported in Newsweek (January 23, 1978), p. 23.

„In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.“

— Hubert H. Humphrey
Speech, March 26, 1966, Washington, D.C., quoted in Robert Andrews, The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations (1993)

„The story of the labor movement needs to be taught in every school in this land… America is a living testimonial to what free men and women, organized in free democratic trade unions can do to make a better life … we ought to be proud of it!“

— Hubert H. Humphrey
Address to the 1977 Minnesota State AFL-CIO Convention.

„The vast number of titles which are published each year—all of them are to the good, even if some of them may annoy or even repel us for a time. For none of us would trade freedom of expression and of ideas 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
Address to the National Book Awards ceremony in New York City (March 8, 1967), reported in The New York Times (March 9, 1967), p. 42.

„For all of us here, for the millions who have sent us, for the whole two billion members of the human family, our land is now, more than ever before, the last best hope on earth. And I know that we can, and I know that we shall began [sic] here the fuller and richer realization of that hope — that promise of a land where all men are truly free and equal, and each man uses his freedom and equality wisely well.“