Top 46 Quotes by 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.

Unfortunately, our affluent society has also been an effluent society.

The difference between hearsay and prophecy is often one of sequence. Hearsay often turns out to have been prophecy.

To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.

Propaganda, to be effective, must be believed. To be believed, it must be credible. To be credible, it must be true.

Foreign policy is really domestic policy with its hat on.

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.

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.

The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.