Punishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force.
ROBERT KENNEDYIf you never quit, youll never fail.
More Robert Kennedy Quotes
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You knew that what is given or granted can be taken away, that what is begged can be refused; but that what is earned is kept.
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Some men see what is, and ask ‘Why?’ I see what might be, and ask ‘Why Not?’
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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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Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America’s water pollution.
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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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The greatest truth must be recognition that in every man, in every child is the potential for greatness.
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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.
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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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A life without criticism is not worth living.
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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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In your hands lies the future of your world and the fulfilment of the best qualities of your own spirit.
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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 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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I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
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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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