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.
ROBERT KENNEDYWe 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.
More Robert Kennedy Quotes
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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 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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Fear not the path of Truth for the lack of People walking on it.
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Send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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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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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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If you never quit, youll never fail.
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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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What happens to the country, to the world, depends on what we do with what others have left us.
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Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
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Nations around the world look to us for the leadership not merely by strength of arms but by strength of our convictions.
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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.
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I dream of things that are not and ask why not.
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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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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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