Hubert Humphrey/presidential and Vice-presidential Ambitions 1952-1964

Famous quotes containing the words humphrey, presidential and/or ambitions:

    “Leadership in today’s world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.”
    —Hubert H. Humphrey (1911–1978)

    “Under a Presidential government, a nation has, except at the electing moment, no influence; it has not the ballot-box before it; its virtue is gone, and it must wait till its instant of despotism again returns.”
    —Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)

    “All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. All intellectual and artistic ambitions are permissible, up to and even beyond the limit of prudent sanity. They can hurt no one.”
    —Joseph Conrad (1857–1924)