Hubert H. Humphrey

None of us would trade freedom of expression 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.

For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end.

Today we know that World War II began not in 1939 or 1941 but in the 1920's and 1930's when those who should have known better persuaded themselves that they were not their brother's keeper.

Anyone who thinks that the vice-president can take a position independent of the president of his administration simply has no knowledge of politics or government. You are his choice in a political marriage, and he expects your absolute loyalty.

There are those who say to you - we are rushing this issue of civil rights. I say we are 172 years late.

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

This, then, is the test we must set for ourselves; not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.

Foreign policy is really domestic policy with its hat on.

Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.

To be realistic today is to be visionary. To be realistic is to be starry-eyed.

If there is dissatisfaction with the status quo, good. If there is ferment, so much the better. If there is restlessness, I am pleased. Then let there be ideas, and hard thought, and hard work. If man feels small, let man make himself bigger.

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

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

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.

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

The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.

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

Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

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