Hubert H. Humphrey

“Life's unfairness is not irrevocable; we can help balance the scales for others, if not always for ourselves.”

“Never give in and never give up.”

“You cannot go around and keep score. If you keep score on the good things and the bad things, you'll find out that you're a very miserable person. God gave man the ability to forget, which is one of the greatest attributes you have. Because if you remember everything that's happened to you, you generally remember that which is the most unfortunate.”

“It was once said that 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.”

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

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

“Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.”

“Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of the citizens to keep and bear arms. [...] the right of the citizens to bear arms is just one guarantee against arbitrary government and one more safeguard against a tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible.”

“We cannot use a double standard for measuring our own and other people's policies. Our demands for democratic practices in other lands will be no more effective than the guarantees of those practiced in our own country.”

“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 shadows of life, the sick, the needy, and the handicapped.”

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

“In life it isn't what you've lost, it's what you've got left that counts”