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Goethe tells us in his greatest poem that Faust lost the liberty of his soul when he said to the passing moment, 'Stay, thou art so fair.
— Robert Kennedy
In the last analysis, our every right is only worth what our lawyer makes it worth.
— Robert Kennedy
If I get to be president, what can I do anyway? With Congress and the press, what chance do I have to make basic changes?
— Robert Kennedy
The assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy led directly to the passage of a historic law, the Gun Control Act of 1968.
— Jeffrey Toobin
I run because I am convinced that this country is on a perilous course and I have such strong feelings about what must be done.
— Robert Kennedy
I see a direct line between Kennedy and Richard Nixon and the opening to China and the detente with the Soviet Union.
— Robert Dallek
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.
— Robert Kennedy
Hand in hand with freedom of speech goes the power to be heard, to share in the decisions of government which shape men's lives.
— Robert Kennedy
Only those who have the courage to fail greatly achieve greatly.
— Robert Kennedy
People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless, I shall destroy him.
— Robert F. Kennedy
You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.
— Robert Kennedy
There were no more heroes. Kennedy was dead, shot by an assassin in Dallas. Batman and Robin were dead... Superman was missing...
— Robert Mayer
It is the right of government to protect the weak; it is the right of the weak to find in their courts fair treatment before the law.
— Robert Kennedy
I now know how Tojo felt when he was planning Pearl Harbor.
— Robert Kennedy
Your life can be anything you want it to be.
— Robert Kennedy
It will help erase the idea that politics is a second-rate profession and a dirty business.
— Robert Kennedy
I thought they'd get one of us, but Jack, after all he's been through, never worried about it I thought it would be me.
— Robert Kennedy
The sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country.
— Robert F. Kennedy
Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.
— Robert Kennedy
Every American has the duty to obey the law and the right to expect that the law will be enforced.
— Robert Kennedy
My views on birth control are somewhat distorted by the fact that I was seventh of nine children.
— Robert Kennedy
We develop the kind of citizens we deserve. If a large number of our children grow up into frustration and poverty, we must expect to pay the price.
— Robert Kennedy
It is immoral to see evil and not act on it.
— Robert Kennedy
The tyranny of Communism is as old as the Pharaohs and the Pyramids - that the State stands above all men and their individual aspirations.
— Robert Kennedy
Perhaps to some extent we have lost sight of the fact that LSD can be very, very helpful in our society if used properly.
— Robert Kennedy
One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.
— Robert F. Kennedy
The natural state of a human being is dignity.
— Robert Kennedy
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.
— Robert Kennedy
Don't get mad, get even,
— Robert F. Kennedy
Change has it's enemies.
— Robert F. Kennedy
Robert Kennedy was inspired to take on organized crime by watching the landmark movie On the Waterfront.
— David Talbot
A hopeless man is a very desperate and dangerous man, almost a dead man.
— Robert F. Kennedy
Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
— Robert F. Kennedy
The fact that free men persist in the search for the truth is the essential difference between Communism and Democracy.
— Robert Kennedy
The poor man looks upon the law as an enemy, not as a friend. For him, the law is always taking something away.
— Robert Kennedy
Ultimately, Communism must be defeated by progressive political programs which wipe out the poverty, misery, and discontent on which it thrives.
— Robert Kennedy
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
— Robert F. Kennedy
President Kennedy's eloquence was designed to make men think; President Johnson's hammer blows are designed to make men act.
— Robert A. Caro
We're not protecting the environment for the sake of the fishes and the birds. We're protecting it for our own sake ...
— Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Even as my father grew up in Boston, Massachusetts, signs told him: 'No Irish Need Apply.'
— Robert Kennedy
I love this city. If I am elected, I'll move the White House to San Francisco. Everybody's so friendly.
— Robert Kennedy
To the extent that laws are founded on morality and on logic, they can lead men's hearts and minds.
— Robert Kennedy
Speaking of prostitutes, big oil's top call girl Sen Inhofe wants to kill fuel economy backed by automakers, small biz, enviros, & consumers
— Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
It has been said that each generation must win its own struggle to be free. -Robert F. Kennedy
— Naomi Wolf
The greatest truth must be recognition that in every man, in every child is the potential for greatness.
— Robert Kennedy
Martin Luther King dedicated his life to love and to justice between fellow human beings. He died in the cause of that effort.
— Robert Kennedy
Too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things.
— Robert Kennedy
I think there is an obligation on the part of all of us to stay informed and aware.
— Robert Kennedy
In a true free market economy, you can't make yourself rich without enriching your community.
— Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
The future is not a gift. It is an achievement.
— Robert F. Kennedy
It is more important to be of service than successful.
— Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Courage is the most important attribute of a lawyer.
— Robert Kennedy
The Republicans are 90% corrupt, and the Democrats are 50% corrupt.
— Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
While communism is the control of business by government, fascism is the control of government by business,
— Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
In the final analysis, poverty is a condition of helplessness - of inability to cope with the conditions of existence in our complex society.
— Robert Kennedy
Large-scale hog producers are a greater threat to the United States and U.S. democracy than Osama bin Laden and his terrorist network.
— Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Yesterday, we sought telescopes good enough to see all the planets. Today, we seek vehicles good enough to reach them.
— Robert Kennedy
Satellite communications connect television screens in Japan with television cameras in England, and the distance of half a world loses its meaning.
— Robert Kennedy
I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive.
— Robert Kennedy
Now I can go back to being ruthless again.
— Robert Kennedy
Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
— Robert F. Kennedy
Fear not the path of Truth for the lack of People walking on it.
— Robert F. Kennedy
We protect nature not for nature's sake but for our own sake because it's the infrastructure of our communities ...
— Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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I think we as Americans know there's a much better alternative than the 17th century practice of burning rocks to power our economy.
— Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
What happens to the country, to the world, depends on what we do with what others have left us.
— Robert Kennedy
The only sin is pride.
— Robert F. Kennedy
The right to vote is the easiest of all rights to grant.
— Robert Kennedy
The eradication of racial and religious prejudice in the United States - and in the rest of the world as well - is a long-term process.
— Robert Kennedy
The most patriotic thing you can do is to take care of the environment and try to live sustainably.
— Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Punishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force.
— Robert Kennedy
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?
— Robert F. Kennedy
They can gas me, but I am famous. I have achieved in one day what it took Robert Kennedy all his life to do.
— Sirhan Sirhan
Some men see the world as it is and say 'Why?' I see the world as it could be and say, 'Why not?'
— Robert Kennedy
You don't have to be perfect....just persistent!
— Robert Kennedy III
All of us will ultimately be judged on the effort we have contributed to building a new world order.
— Robert Kennedy
Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change.
— Robert Kennedy
I was interested in the environment from when I was a little kid. I spent most of my time hunting and fishing and kayaking.
— Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
The people I really most admire are Robert Kennedy and Franklin Roosevelt. If you know someone, it is very hard to revere them.
— Ken Livingstone
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In Massachusetts they [Democratic politicians] steal, in California they feud, and in New York they lie.
— Robert Kennedy
Oh no, oh no ... don't lift me, don't lift me.
— Robert Kennedy
Robert Frost's triumph was not being at John Kennedy's inauguration ceremony, but the day when he put the last period on West-Running Brook.
— Joseph Brodsky
Wars of any magnitude release powerful social and economic forces which can change the whole face of the world.
— Robert Kennedy
I dream of things that are not and ask why not.
— Robert Kennedy
GNP measures neither our courage, our wisdom neither our compassion. It measures everything except what makes life worthwhile
— Robert Kennedy
A life without criticism is not worth living.
— Robert Kennedy
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.
— Robert F. Kennedy
Nations around the world look to us for the leadership not merely by strength of arms but by strength of our convictions.
— Robert Kennedy
If you never quit, youll never fail.
— Robert Kennedy
John Kennedy had so many different medical problems that began when he was a boy. He started out with intestinal problems ... spastic colitis.
— Robert Dallek
The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.
— Robert F. Kennedy
