Slumism is the pent-up anger of people living on the outside of affluence. Slumism is decay of structure and deterioration of the human spirit. Slumism is a virus which spreads through the body politic. As other “isms,” it breeds disorder and demagoguery and hate.

— Hubert H. Humphrey

Hubert H. Humphrey Quotes

We can not expect to breed respect for law and order among people who do not share the fruits of our freedom.

— Hubert H. Humphrey

I had no money to buy books, so between classes and work, I haunted the library. I even tutored in French with a sliding scale of payment: twenty dollars for an A, fifteen for a B, ten for a C, five for a D.

— Hubert H. Humphrey

A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.

— Hubert H. Humphrey

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

— Hubert H. Humphrey

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

Profit and morality are a hard combination to beat.

— Hubert H. Humphrey

Foreign policy is really domestic policy with its hat on.

— Hubert H. Humphrey

I learned more about the economy from one South Dakota dust storm that I did in all my years of college.

— Hubert H. Humphrey

National isolation breeds national neurosis.

— Hubert H. Humphrey

There is a great deal of difference between living and surviving. You can survive in debauchery, even in sickness and despair. But you live with a spirit of vitality and a spirit of participation, of being wanted, and having something to contribute.

— Hubert H. Humphrey

What do we want for people? Human dignity, personal expression and fulfillment, justice, freedom.

— Hubert H. Humphrey

There is a lot of difference between failure and defeat. Failure is when you are defeated and neither learn nor contribute anything.

— Hubert H. Humphrey

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.

— Hubert H. Humphrey

I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known.

— Hubert H. Humphrey

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.

— Hubert H. Humphrey

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

— Hubert H. Humphrey

The President has only 190 million bosses. The Vice President has 190 million and one.

— Hubert H. Humphrey

More progress results from the violent execution of an imperfect plan than the perfection of a plan to violently execute.

— Hubert H. Humphrey

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

— Hubert H. Humphrey

Our greatest songs are still unsung.

— Hubert H. Humphrey
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