Hubert Humphrey quotes

If only this great man had been elected in 1968 over Nixon.

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

"The moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped."

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

"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."

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

His one contribution was that after the convention, the left managed to reform the nomination process and boot out some of the bosses.

He was nominated in '68 without ever running in a single primary.

I voted for Dr. Spock in '68 and against the war Humphrey supported.