Nations around the world look to us for the leadership not merely by strength of arms but by strength of our convictions.
ROBERT KENNEDYWhat happens to the country, to the world, depends on what we do with what others have left us.
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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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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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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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Fear not the path of Truth for the lack of People walking on it.
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Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
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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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I dream of things that are not and ask why not.
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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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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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Punishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force.
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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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Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
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