Just because we cannot see clearly the end of the road, that is no reason for not setting out on the essential journey. On the contrary, great change dominates the world, and unless we move with change we will become its victims.
ROBERT KENNEDYI 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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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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All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don’t. And if our times are difficult and perplexing, so are they challenging and filled with opportunity.
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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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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 enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and abiding practice of any western society.
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Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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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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It is the essence of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain.
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Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
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Fear not the path of Truth for the lack of People walking on it.
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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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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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GNP measures neither our courage, our wisdom neither our compassion. It measures everything except what makes life worthwhile
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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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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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