Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.
Hubert Humphrey
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Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.
HUBERT H. HUMPHREY Be civilized. Grudges are for Neanderthals. – Hubert Humphrey
DAVID PIETRUSZA A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.
CHARLES SWINDOLL A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.
CHARLES SWINDOLL A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.
CHARLES R. SWINDOLL Perhaps the cruelest thing ever said of Hubert Humphrey was that he had the soul of a vice president...
SUSAN ESTRICH Life's unfairness is not irrevocable; we can help balance the scales for others, if not always for o...
HUBERT HUMPHREY Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with you...
BARRY GOLDWATER Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with you...
BARRY M. GOLDWATER According to Gandhi, the seven sins are wealth without works, pleasure without conscience, knowledge...
JIMMY CARTER Discussion in America means dissent.
JAMES THURBER It is necessary to ensure that the requirement to combat terrorism is not used to clamp down on free...
MARY ROBINSON Those people who taught Hubert Humphrey a lesson will still be enjoying the Nixon Supreme Court when...
RUSSELL BAKER Nations need to understand their own strengths and weaknesses, and India's tradition of dissent ...
ROSABETH MOSS KANTER The gospel is neither a discussion or a debate. It is an announcement.
PAUL S. REES Freedom of inquiry, freedom of discussion, and freedom of teaching - without these a university cann...
ROBERT MAYNARD HUTCHINS Certainly there is debate about what constitutes drought and the beginning and ending of a drought. ...
JAY BREIDENBACH The best leaders I've worked with drive people into discussion by going around the table and asking ...
JEANNE BLISS When I did 'Esquire,' I did a lot of celebrity covers, but the celebrity cover was Hubert Hu...
GEORGE LOIS We have made clear all along that this bill is for discussion and debate,
GEOFF HOON I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES I do this real moron thing, and it's called thinking. And apparently I'm not a very good American be...
GEORGE CARLIN To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the Preside...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT After 1,700 deaths, over 12,000 wounded and $200 billion spent, we believe it is time to have this d...
WALTER JONES Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of t...
THOMAS HUXLEY Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of t...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY Everything Ashley Humphrey did was this guy's fault. Blame it on Mr. Humphrey.
JOSEPH MCDERMOTT Freedom means the right of people to assemble, organize, and debate openly.
HILLARY CLINTON Disagreement produces debate but dissent produces dissension. Dissent (which come from the Latin, di...
DANIEL J. BOORSTIN Because Freedom is the most important thing on life, let me Be.
JOHN STEINBECK Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
ALBERT EINSTEIN I think that the important thing to consider here - Hubert Humphrey said that a society is measured ...
TRENT FRANKS Whoso pulleth out this sword of this stone and anvil is rightwise king born of all England.
THOMAS MALORY Whoso pulleth out this sword of this stone and anvil is rightwise king born of all England.
SIR THOMAS MALORY Good directors don't answer questions with their work. They generate debate and create discussio...
ALEJANDRO GONZALEZ INARRITU We hope to raise awareness and consciousness regarding some of the broader issues that may not recei...
ISABEL MARCUS This was a matter of curtailing academic freedom, free association and open debate.
KATE BRONFENBRENNER You wanna get the truth out of me, get me hammered.
RON WHITE Even in the first three nights of polling, when Mayor Bloomberg was being hammered for not participa...
MAURICE CARROLL Patriotism in an independent nation means timely Action & Affirmation on a constructive mode, and no...
ANUJ SOMANY Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only on...
HARRY TRUMAN Proclaim the truth and do not be silent through fear.
CATHERINE OF SIENA Opinions are formed in a process of open discussion and public debate, and where no opportunity for ...
HANNAH ARENDT One forges one's style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.
ÉMILE ZOLA One forges one's style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.
EMILE ZOLA I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion...
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE The anvil is not afraid of the hammer.
CHARLES H. SPURGEON Don't raise your voice, improve your argument."
[Address at the Nelson Mandela Foundat...
DESMOND TUTU Approbation from Sir Hubert Stanley is praise indeed.
THOMAS MORTON Humphrey puts on a clinic out there, especially defensively. He's very technically sound. Mauro is t...
BRAD CLANTON We went through the agreement Paul had proposed and hammered out something.
BOB JAMES The nail that stands out will be hammered down.
JAPANESE PROVERB The editorial page is where you'll find our opinions, while the letters columns and the space fo...
ANDREW ROSENTHAL Many people think that love represents chains, bondage, the opposite of freedom. But people who beli...
C. JOYBELL C. Never answer a question from a farmer.
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HUBERT HUMPHREY American public opinion is like an ocean -- it cannot be stirred by a teaspoon.
HUBERT HUMPHREY The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.
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HUBERT HUMPHREY There are incalculable resources in the human spirit, once it has been set free.
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HUBERT HUMPHREY Profit and morality are a hard combination to beat.
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HUBERT HUMPHREY History teaches us that the great revolutions aren't started by people who are utterly down and out,...
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HUBERT MARTIN I was burdened with an ever-growing heart on the verge of decay. To save myself, I had to give many ...
HUBERT MARTIN I always thought time was the most valuable currency, but I realized the people we spent our time on...
HUBERT MARTIN All my past heartache and pain suddenly made sense. That was who I would not be to the person who de...
HUBERT MARTIN It was the end for something. It was the beginning for another. But in reality it just fell in the m...
HUBERT MARTIN You are whole today, looking back at fragments of the past. Such a hollow foundation for such a powe...
HUBERT MARTIN I wanted nothing more than her attention. Her thoughts filled with me. Her eyes lost in my image. I ...
HUBERT MARTIN My body held on though I held snapped threads in my hands and patches of my flesh were missing entir...
HUBERT MARTIN She had the blood of the sun running through her veins and the dust of stars at her fingertips. Her ...
HUBERT MARTIN And though they fell as ashes, their shadows drifted as leaves.
HUBERT MARTIN I realized the world around me was fragmented and broken... I had to be gentle enough not to scrape ...
HUBERT MARTIN He spoke in polished honesty free of liar's filth. He said the hardest words with an unshakable voic...
HUBERT MARTIN Her words were slickly lacquered, dripping with venom that singed the air as they fell. She traced h...
HUBERT MARTIN She was the half-whispers born from half-thoughts, the half-breaths of dying half-hearts.
HUBERT MARTIN When it came to her, I became an indomitable warrior. My muscles became her shield and my lungs aide...
HUBERT MARTIN Hoping fast that my arrow's flight is steady and true,
I need this, I need my arrow to find yo...
HUBERT MARTIN My heart may be bruised and scarred, bleeding slow drip-drip with every thump and every other thump-...
HUBERT MARTIN Whether it was in the maze of my fantastical mind or the allure of her gossamer eyes, they took me t...
HUBERT MARTIN She is beyond any mortal structure of words, yet she inspires the effort to try anyway.
HUBERT MARTIN She was the sort of girl who flooded my five senses. Her voice was melody to my ears, her taste gave...
HUBERT MARTIN That's what really broke me, she was better than any fantasy I could hope to imagine. I've spent my ...
HUBERT MARTIN I always deemed myself a one chance person, if you hurt me or betray me, then I'm done with you. As ...
HUBERT MARTIN She speaks in heartbeats and the rises of her chest, words forever seared in thoughts that will neve...
HUBERT MARTIN He sang softly, less with words and more with thought. She cradled his head, stitching together his ...
HUBERT MARTIN These places I traveled through, they were a lot like the people I knew. Some abodes I muddled about...
HUBERT MARTIN In a way, she became the sand to my hourglass... she made watching that trickling sand a little more...
HUBERT MARTIN She was carmine shadows reflecting from my crimson words. Every pulse sent a velvet ripple through t...
HUBERT MARTIN As I watched the sky morph shades of amber and amethyst, of fiery orange and smoldering pink, I alwa...
HUBERT MARTIN That last bit of hope always lingered as a stubborn thread. Every time I would try to cut it I would...
HUBERT MARTIN I spill my emotions and hopes on pieces of paper and pixels of screens, combining and creating, merg...
HUBERT MARTIN