If freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom. The two are inseparable partners in the great adventure of humanity.
ROBERT KENNEDYMen and women with freed minds may often be mistaken, but they are seldom fooled. They may be influenced, but they cannot be intimidated. They may be perplexed, but they will never be lost.
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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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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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GNP measures neither our courage, our wisdom neither our compassion. It measures everything except what makes life worthwhile
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Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
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We can master change not though force or fear, but only though the free work of an understanding mind, though an openness to new knowledge and fresh outlooks, which can only strengthen the most fragile and most powerful of human gifts: the gift of reason.
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The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.
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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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The future does not belong to those who are content with today Rather, it will belong to those who can blend vision, reason, and courage in a personal commitment.
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Every dictatorship has ultimately strangled in the web of repression it wove for its people, making mistakes that could not be corrected because criticism was prohibited.
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You’re happiest while you’re making the greatest contribution.
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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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All of us will ultimately be judged on the effort we have contributed to building a new world order.
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The sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country.
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It is the essence of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain.
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Fear not the path of Truth for the lack of People walking on it.
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I dream of things that are not and ask why not.
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Too 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.
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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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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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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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I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
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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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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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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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