Hubert Humphrey Quotes
We cannot use a double standard for measuring our own and other people's policies. Our demands for democratic practices in other lands will be no more effective than the guarantees of those practiced in our own country.
Humphrey, Hubert H. Address to the Democratic National Convention. 14 July 1948, Philadelphia, PA. Address.
Wilson and others after the American Revolution saw a dilemma. Then young would be attorneys were trained to revere the law and when regular students learned history and civics, the curriculum did not always emphasize that the older generation had engaged in rebellion, sedition, disloyalty to the government and armed revolution. However, they way their children were taught was to obey the law, be loyal to the government, and be good staid citizens. The dilemma has been with the nation ever since.
Obama wanted to follow transparency and openness in contrast to the previous George W. Bush Administratiom. He did do better, but he disappointed many of his supporters by not being totally transparent on many occasions.
The observation seems to hold for individuals, institutions, and nations.
Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr. was an American politician who served as the 38th vice president of the United States from 1965 to 1969. He twice served in the United States Senate, representing Minnesota from 1949 to 1964 and 1971 to 1978. As a senator he was a major leader of Modern liberalism in the United States. As President Lyndon Johnson's vice president, he supported the controversial Vietnam War. An intensely divided Democratic Party nominated him in the 1968 presidential election. He lost a close race to Republican nominee Richard Nixon.
