Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes. — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
Some men see what is, and ask 'Why?' I see what might be, and ask 'Why Not?' — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
The greatest truth must be recognition that in every man, in every child is the potential for greatness. — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
We know that if one man's rights are denied, the rights of all are endangered. — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
Men and women with freed minds may often be mistaken, but they are seldom fooled. They may be influenced, but they cannot… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice,… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
The essential humanity of men can be protected and preserved only where government must answer, not just to the wealthy, not just… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
Some believe there is nothing one man or one woman can do against the enormous array of the world’s ills... Yet many… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
The intolerant man will not rely on persuasion, or on the worth of the idea. He would deny to others the very… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
What has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created? No martyr's cause has ever been stilled by an assassin's bullet... — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
The ultimate relationship between justice and law will be an eternal subject for speculation and analysis. But it may be said that… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
I believe that as long as a single man may try, any unjustifiable barrier against his efforts is a barrier against mankind. — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
For there is another kind of violence, slower but just as deadly, destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night.… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
Automation provides us with wondrous increases of production and information, but does it tell us what to do with the men the… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
It is from the numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
The road toward equality of freedom is not easy, and great cost and danger march alongside us. We are committed to peaceful… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
Democracy is no easy form of government. Few nations have been able to sustain it. For it requires that we take the… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
We know that we cannot live together without rules which tell us what is right and what is wrong, what is permitted… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
The future does not belong to those who are content with today, apathetic toward common problems and their fellow man alike, timid… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
And as long as America must choose, that long will there be a need and a place for the Democratic Party. We… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
We must recognize the full human equality of all our people - before God, before the law, and in the councils of… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
We should, I believe, beware of the pitfalls described by Taine: 'Imagine a man who sets out on a voyage equipped with… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
But history will judge you, and as the years pass, you will ultimately judge yourself, in the extent to which you have… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
Even government by the consent of the governed, as in our own Constitution, must be limited in its power to act against… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
Let me make it clear that the Youth Employment Opportunities Act of 1961 is not primarily concerned with delinquency prevention. Rather, it… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
Men without hope, resigned to despair and oppression, do not make revolutions. It is when expectation replaces submission, when despair is touched… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
At the heart of western freedom and democracy is the belief that the individual man ... is the touchstone of value, and… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
Our attitude towards immigration reflects our faith in the American ideal. We have always believed it possible for men and women who… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
All do not develop in the same manner, or at the same pace. Nations, like men, often march to the beat of… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
Sometimes people think that because you have money and position you are immune from the human experience. But I can feel as… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
Communism counts its opportunities in terms of decades - not of weeks. Its means of aggression consist not only of nuclear weapons… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
Like it or not, we live in interesting times. They are times of danger and uncertainty; but they are also the most… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
The glory of justice and the majesty of law are created not just by the Constitution - nor by the courts -… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
When you teach a man to hate and fear his brother, when you teach that he is a lesser man because of… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
At the heart of that western freedom and democracy is the belief that the individual man...is the touchstone of value, and all… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
Wars of any magnitude release powerful social and economic forces which can change the whole face of the world. — Robert Kennedy Copy Share
If freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom. The two are inseparable partners in the great adventure of humanity. — Robert Kennedy Copy Share
Goethe tells us in his greatest poem that Faust lost the liberty of his soul when he said to the passing moment, 'Stay, thou… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share
The intolerant man will not rely on persuasion, or on the worth of the idea. He would deny to others the very freedom of… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share
Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share
President Kennedy's election was such an enlargement. It expanded religious freedom to include the highest office in the land. President Kennedy's administration was such… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share
Men and women with freed minds may often be mistaken, but they are seldom fooled. They may be influenced, but they cannot be intimidated.… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share
Prejudice exists and probably will continue to 'but we have tried to make progress and we are making progress. We are not going to… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share
Too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things. — Robert Kennedy Copy Share
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 Copy Share
We know that we cannot live together without rules which tell us what is right and what is wrong, what is permitted and what… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share
Punishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force. — Robert Kennedy Copy Share
The travail of freedom and justice is not easy, but nothing serious and important in life is easy. The history of humanity has been… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share
The Gross National Product measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our compassion nor our devotion to… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share
Our future may lie beyond our vision, but it is not completely beyond our control. It is the shaping impulse of America that neither… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share
