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.
ROBERT KENNEDYThe future is not a gift: it is an achievement. Every generation helps make its own future. This is the essential challenge of the present.
More Robert Kennedy Quotes
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You’re happiest while you’re making the greatest contribution.
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If you never quit, youll never fail.
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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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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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He tells so many lies that he convinces himself after a while that he’s telling the truth. He just doesn’t recognize truth or falsehood.
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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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Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves.
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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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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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Send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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Religion is a salve for confusion and misdirection.
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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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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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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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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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