There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present, and invoke the security of the comfortable past which, in fact, never existed.
ROBERT KENNEDYThe enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and abiding practice of any western society.
More Robert Kennedy Quotes
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What happens to the country, to the world, depends on what we do with what others have left us.
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If freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom. The two are inseparable partners in the great adventure of humanity.
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While free markets tend to democratize a society, unfettered capitalism leads invariably to corporate control of government.
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A life without criticism is not worth living.
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Every time you stand up for an ideal, you send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.
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Men and women with freed minds may often be mistaken, but they are seldom fooled. They may be influenced, but they cannot be intimidated. They may be perplexed, but they will never be lost.
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It is immoral to see evil and not act on it.
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We can master change not though force or fear, but only though the free work of an understanding mind, though an openness to new knowledge and fresh outlooks, which can only strengthen the most fragile and most powerful of human gifts: the gift of reason.
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Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
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Together, we can make ourselves a nation that spends more on books than on bombs, more on hospitals than the terrible tools of war, more on decent houses than military aircraft.
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You’re happiest while you’re making the greatest contribution.
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Every dictatorship has ultimately strangled in the web of repression it wove for its people, making mistakes that could not be corrected because criticism was prohibited.
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There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?
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Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
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