The enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and abiding practice of any western society.
ROBERT KENNEDYIf 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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The future is not a gift: it is an achievement. Every generation helps make its own future. This is the essential challenge of the present.
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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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Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
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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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Every time you stand up for an ideal, you send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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Ultimately, America’s answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
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Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves.
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It is the essence of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain.
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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.
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I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil. Government belongs wherever evil needs an adversary and there are people in distress.
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Send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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The sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country.
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Just because we cannot see clearly the end of the road, that is no reason for not setting out on the essential journey. On the contrary, great change dominates the world, and unless we move with change we will become its victims.
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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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Some men see what is, and ask ‘Why?’ I see what might be, and ask ‘Why Not?’
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