Hubert Humphrey Quotes

Social justice and compassion are compatible with an intelligent respect for private enterprise and law and order.

The tensions between order and liberty, between opportunity and social justice will always be there, but that’s freedom.

We need to maintain law and order. We need to maintain peace in the world. We need to protect the environment. We need to have some degree of social justice, equality of opportunity. The markets are not designed to take care of those needs. That's a political process.

As man seeks justice in equality, so society seeks order in anarchy.

We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice.

Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.

We stand for a nobler America; we stand for a broader liberty, a fuller justice; we stand for intelligent co-operation instead of reckless competition; we stand for mutual helpfulness instead of mutual hatred; we stand for equal rights as a fact of life instead of a catch-word of politics; we stand for the rule of the people as a practical truth instead of a meaningless pretense.

The law expresses the values and aspirations of our society.

Justice is incidental to law and order

After I asked him [a student] what he meant, he replied that freedom consisted of the unimpeded right to get rich, to use his ability, no matter what the cost to others, to win advancement. No decent society can tolerate that definition.

I want to live in a Britain where there is a shared belief in freedom and democracy, and equal rights for men and women.

America stands for freedom, liberty and justice for all. And it's not happening for all right now.

Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit.

It doesn't matter what color, sex, religion, age, sexual orientation, etc., everyone should have the same freedoms and liberties.

I build no system. I ask an end to privilege, the abolition of slavery, equality of rights, and the reign of law. Justice, nothing else; that is the alpha and omega of my argument: to others I leave the business of governing the world.

How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.

If you hear me out, I believe you'll discover that what motivates me more than any other issue is the defense of everyone's rights.

He worked for the day when all people would be clothed in dignity.

Peace does not mean just to stop wars, but also to stop oppression and injustice.

If we think we have ours and don't owe any time or money or effort to help those left behind, then we are a part of the problem rather than the solution to the fraying social fabric that threatens all Americans.

We must always embrace individual liberty and enforce the constitutional rights of all Americans-rich and poor, immigrant and native, black and white.

I speak not for myself but for those without voice... those who have fought for their rights... their right to live in peace, their right to be treated with dignity, their right to equality of opportunity, their right to be educated.

Everyone has an equal right to inequality.

In order to establish peace, you must have fair justice for everyone.

Canada is the homeland of equality, justice and tolerance.