Hubert Humphrey Quotes

Youth should not accept the old order if the world is to move on.

The idea of a group of elders is that, in past civilizations, they have linked worlds; the other world was also present in this one. There is also the argument that elders have "experience." The problem is that experience teaches fear of change. Experience kills imagination. Experience makes people conservative. What we are facing tomorrow requires the force of imagination, not wisdom from yesterday.

Tradition means taking account of a wonderful history but remembering that everybody today looks to the future.

We need to open up the future. We also need to keep everything valuable from the past.

In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get - The Future!

We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

Obama is the New Generation and the hot light of a dawn that goes way beyond clever talk of morning in America.

We make the oldest stories new when we succeed, and we are trapped by the old stories when we fail.

You have to modernise; you have to change - you can't just be traditional for the fun of being traditional.

Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future.

We are a party of innovation. We do not reject our traditions, but we are willing to adapt to changing circumstances, when change we must. We are willing to suffer the discomfort of change in order to achieve a better future.

What makes our world so fascinating is that continuously there are novel and creative ideas spurring people to leave old ways and try something new.

We live in a changing world … shall we maintain all our theaters in the same traditional box.

Novelty even is useful if a general opinion prevails that the old way is bad.

Yet you must not cling to the words of the old sages either; they, too, may not be right. Even if you believe them, you should be alert so that, in the event that something superior comes along, you may follow that.

What was good enough for my father is good enough for me" is a treasured English axiom which, if strictly carried out, would have kept us to wooden ploughs and water clocks. In these days we need to be inoculated with some of the nervous energy of the Americans.

Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

We can't be beholden to the past.

Change is always good. You can't keep tradition all the time. Yes, Grandma cooked on a wood stove but she would have used electricity if she could.

Now the 21st century approaches and with it the inevitability of change. We must wonder if the American people will find renewal and rejuvenation within themselves, will discover again their capacity for innovation and adaptation. If not, alas, the nation's future will be shaped by sightless forces of history over which Americans will have no control.

An ounce of logic can be worth more than a ton of tradition that has become obsolete through the weathering of time.

There is no new world that you make without the old world.

The notion that you could discard the old world and now make a new one. This is what was so bad about Modernism.

Tradition, if not constantly recreated, can be as much a millstone as a mill-wheel.