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Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves.

Robert Kennedy

Punishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force.
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Comfortable Despair Force History Punishment
The essential humanity of men can be protected and preserved only where government must answer, not just to the wealthy, not just to those of a particular religion, or a particular race, but to all its people.
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Answer Essential Government Humanity People Preserved Protection Race Religion
It is the essence of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain.
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Essence Personal Public Responsibility
We know that if one man’s rights are denied, the rights of all are endangered.
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Dangerous Decline Justice Man Right
It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity, by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task.
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Activity Body Commitment Enough Future Human See Shape Task Understand Willing
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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Community Criminal Deserve Force Kind Society
Fear not the path of Truth for the lack of People walking on it.
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Fear Journey Path People Truth Walk
While free markets tend to democratize a society, unfettered capitalism leads invariably to corporate control of government.
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Control Freedom Government Marketing Society
GNP measures neither our courage, our wisdom neither our compassion. It measures everything except what makes life worthwhile
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Compassionate Exception Life Measurement Wisdom Worth
Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
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Change Enemy Motivation Progress Word
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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Correct Criticism Mistake People Repression Strangle
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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Change Fear Force Freedom Fresh Gift Human Master Powerful Reason Strength Work
Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
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Guide Live Tools Tragedy Wisdom
What happens to the country, to the world, depends on what we do with what others have left us.
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Alone Country Ourselves World
Men 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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Fools Freedom Lost Man Mindset Mistake Woman
Religion is a salve for confusion and misdirection.
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Confusion Direction Religion Slave

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