"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."
-Hubert H. Humphrey
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"Unfortunately, our affluent society has also been an effluent society.“
-Hubert H. Humphrey
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"Today we know that World War II began not in 1939 or 1941 but in the 1920's and 1930's when those who should have known better persuaded themselves that they were not their brother's keeper."
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