Humphrey

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“Liberalism, above all, means emancipation—emancipation from one’s fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination ... from poverty.”
—Hubert H. Humphrey (1911–1978)

“We have already eaten breakfast to the accompaniment, in our morning newspapers, of too many “Yankee Go Home” signs, too many riots, too many denunciations of ourselves, to believe that leadership, even in the cause of peace, can reward us with international laurel wreaths.”
—Hubert H. Humphrey (1911–1978)

“A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.”
—Hubert H. Humphrey (1911–1978)