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 KENNEDYReligion is a salve for confusion and misdirection.
More Robert Kennedy Quotes
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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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We know that if one man’s rights are denied, the rights of all are endangered.
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If freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom. The two are inseparable partners in the great adventure of humanity.
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Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
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Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.
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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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I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil. Government belongs wherever evil needs an adversary and there are people in distress.
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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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This much is clear: violence breeds violence, repression brings retaliation, and only a cleansing of our whole society can remove this sickness from our soul.
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The sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country.
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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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What happens to the country, to the world, depends on what we do with what others have left us.
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While free markets tend to democratize a society, unfettered capitalism leads invariably to corporate control of government.
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Religion is a salve for confusion and misdirection.
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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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