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 KENNEDYIf you never quit, youll never fail.
More Robert Kennedy Quotes
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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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Nations around the world look to us for the leadership not merely by strength of arms but by strength of our convictions.
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People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless, I shall destroy him.
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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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The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.
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It is the essence of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain.
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All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don’t. And if our times are difficult and perplexing, so are they challenging and filled with opportunity.
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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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What has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created? No martyr’s cause has ever been stilled by an assassin’s bullet.
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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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This much is clear: violence breeds violence, repression brings retaliation, and only a cleansing of our whole society can remove this sickness from our soul.
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The greatest truth must be recognition that in every man, in every child is the potential for greatness.
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The sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country.
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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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A life without criticism is not worth living.
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