Hubert H. Humphrey

Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end.

Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.

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.

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

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

American public opinion is like an ocean, it cannot be stirred by a teaspoon.

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.

Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

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

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