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It is the essence of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain.

Robert Kennedy

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
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
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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Challenge Difficult Live Opportunity Time World
You’re happiest while you’re making the greatest contribution.
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Greatness Happiness Yourself
I dream of things that are not and ask why not.
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Dreams Fantasy Myself Question
The natural state of a human being is dignity.
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Dignity Human Natural State
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
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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Community Excellence Material Surrender Value
Victims of the violence are black and white, rich and poor, young and old, famous and unknown. They are most important of all, human beings whom other human beings loved and needed.
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Black Human Love Need Victim Violence White
What has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created? No martyr’s cause has ever been stilled by an assassin’s bullet.
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Accomplishment Assassination Violence
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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Believe Myself People Poverty
It is the essence of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain.
ROBERT KENNEDY

Essence Personal Public Responsibility
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
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
The enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and abiding practice of any western society.
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Goal Human Liberty Society Value
Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves.
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Criminal Deserve Kind Society

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