Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
ROBERT KENNEDYWhile free markets tend to democratize a society, unfettered capitalism leads invariably to corporate control of government.
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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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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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Punishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force.
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Send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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It is the essence of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain.
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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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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. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.
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I dream of things that are not and ask why not.
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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 know that if one man’s rights are denied, the rights of all are endangered.
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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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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 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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While free markets tend to democratize a society, unfettered capitalism leads invariably to corporate control of government.
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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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You’re happiest while you’re making the greatest contribution.
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I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
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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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Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.
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The intolerant man will not rely on persuasion, or on the worth of the idea. He would deny to others the very freedom of opinion or of dissent which he so stridently demands for himself. He cannot trust democracy.
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Fear not the path of Truth for the lack of People walking on it.
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But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as an inferior, and God is there, and we look up and He is not white? What then is our response?
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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 often we honor swagger and bluster and the wielders of force; too often we excuse those who are willing to build their own lives on the shattered dreams of others.
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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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