Hubert H. Humphrey

We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

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.

Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction, and then beats them on his anvil into what frame he pleases.

I've learned that even the word 'jubilee' used in connection with the Reformation can give rise to discussions.

Political differences will always generate a healthy debate, but over time the dialogue has become more hateful and at times violent.