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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Hubert Humphrey

 American Politician Friends Or Friendship Quote of the Day

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 Humphrey

 American Politician

The President is the people's lobbyist.

Hubert Humphrey

 American Politician

Fortunately, the time has long passed when people liked to regard the United States as some kind of melting pot, taking men and women from every part of the world and converting them into standardized, homogenized Americans. We are, I think, much more mature and wise today. Just as we welcome a world of diversity, so we glory in an America of diversity -- an America all the richer for the many different and distinctive strands of which it is woven.

Hubert Humphrey

 Multiculturalism People

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

Hubert Humphrey

 American Politician Debate

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

Hubert Humphrey

 American Politician Compassion

We should have learnt by now that laws and court decisions can only point the way. They can establish criteria of right and wrong. And they can provide a basis for rooting out the evils of bigotry and racism. But they cannot wipe away centuries of oppression and injustice / however much we might desire it.

Hubert Humphrey

 

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.

Hubert Humphrey

 

There are not enough jails, not enough police, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people.

Hubert Humphrey

 American Politician Law

Liberalism, above all, means emancipation -- emancipation from one's fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination... from poverty.

Hubert Humphrey

 Discrimination