Robert Kennedy Quotes
Top 84 wise famous quotes and sayings by Robert Kennedy
Robert Kennedy Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
GDP does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education, or the joy of their play
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.
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.
Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.
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.
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.
The tyranny of Communism is as old as the Pharaohs and the Pyramids - that the State stands above all men and their individual aspirations.
Perhaps to some extent we have lost sight of the fact that LSD can be very, very helpful in our society if used properly.
In my judgment, physical fitness is basic to all forms of excellence and to a strong, confident nation.
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.
Too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things.
While free markets tend to democratize a society, unfettered capitalism leads invariably to corporate control of government.
Martin Luther King dedicated his life to love and to justice between fellow human beings. He died in the cause of that effort.
Lack of education, old age, bad health or discrimination - these are causes of poverty, and the way to attack it is to go to the root.
I believe that as long as a single man may try, any unjustifiable barrier against his efforts is a barrier against mankind.
Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
I believe that in this generation those with the courage to enter the conflict will find themselves with companions in every corner of the world.
When companies get together secretly to fix prices and attempt to eliminate competition, honest businessmen suffer. I think this is wrong.
I come from a family that has always emphasized and enjoyed sports - golf, tennis, football, baseball and the rest.
Freedom possesses many meanings. It speaks not merely in terms of political and religious liberty but also in terms of economic and social progress.
I have told friends and supporters who are urging me to run that I would not oppose President Johnson under any foreseeable circumstances.
From the first moment of independence, the United States has been dedicated to innovation as a way of government and a way of life.
GNP measures neither our courage, our wisdom neither our compassion. It measures everything except what makes life worthwhile
Punishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force.
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.
I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive.
Satellite communications connect television screens in Japan with television cameras in England, and the distance of half a world loses its meaning.
Yesterday, we sought telescopes good enough to see all the planets. Today, we seek vehicles good enough to reach them.
In the final analysis, poverty is a condition of helplessness - of inability to cope with the conditions of existence in our complex society.
One of the great creative statesmen of our age was Franklin Roosevelt. He was creative precisely because he preferred experiment to ideology.
Nations around the world look to us for the leadership not merely by strength of arms but by strength of our convictions.
The greatest truth must be recognition that in every man, in every child is the potential for greatness.
Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change.
All of us will ultimately be judged on the effort we have contributed to building a new world order.
Wars of any magnitude release powerful social and economic forces which can change the whole face of the world.
The fact that free men persist in the search for the truth is the essential difference between Communism and Democracy.
Ultimately, Communism must be defeated by progressive political programs which wipe out the poverty, misery, and discontent on which it thrives.
The poor man looks upon the law as an enemy, not as a friend. For him, the law is always taking something away.
In Massachusetts they [Democratic politicians] steal, in California they feud, and in New York they lie.