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 KENNEDYToo often we honor swagger and bluster and the wielders of force; too often we excuse those who are willing to build their own lives on the shattered dreams of others.
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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Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
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Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.
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Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves.
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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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The intolerant man will not rely on persuasion, or on the worth of the idea. He would deny to others the very freedom of opinion or of dissent which he so stridently demands for himself. He cannot trust democracy.
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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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The natural state of a human being is dignity.
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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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It is the essence of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain.
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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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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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Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
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You’re happiest while you’re making the greatest contribution.
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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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