People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless, I shall destroy him.
ROBERT KENNEDYThe greatest truth must be recognition that in every man, in every child is the potential for greatness.
More Robert Kennedy Quotes
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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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You knew that what is given or granted can be taken away, that what is begged can be refused; but that what is earned is kept.
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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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Send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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Too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things.
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The enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and abiding practice of any western society.
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Every time you stand up for an ideal, you send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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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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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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Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
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Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.
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He tells so many lies that he convinces himself after a while that he’s telling the truth. He just doesn’t recognize truth or falsehood.
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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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Religion is a salve for confusion and misdirection.
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The essential humanity of men can be protected and preserved only where government must answer, not just to the wealthy, not just to those of a particular religion, or a particular race, but to all its people.
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