Some men see what is, and ask ‘Why?’ I see what might be, and ask ‘Why Not?’
ROBERT KENNEDYThere 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.
More Robert Kennedy Quotes
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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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Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
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GNP measures neither our courage, our wisdom neither our compassion. It measures everything except what makes life worthwhile
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The sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country.
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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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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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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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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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Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
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The natural state of a human being is dignity.
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It is the essence of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain.
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Send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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In your hands lies the future of your world and the fulfilment of the best qualities of your own spirit.
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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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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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