Dreams Quotes by Robert Kennedy

8 Dreams quotes by Robert Kennedy

Robert Kennedy’s speeches often blended public duty with personal hope. In this eight‑quote selection, his thoughts on dreams reveal a commitment to envisioning a better future, offering a succinct source of civic inspiration.

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Our future may lie beyond our vision, but it is not completely beyond our control. It is the shaping impulse of America…

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Our future may lie beyond our vision, but it is not completely beyond our control. It is the shaping impulse of America…

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There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and…

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Too often we honor swagger and bluster and the wielders of force; too often we excuse those who are willing to build…

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The future does not belong to those who are content with today Rather, it will belong to those who can blend vision,…

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I dream of things that are not and ask why not.

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Where aspirations outstrip opportunities, law-abiding society becomes the victim. Attitudes of contempt toward the law are forged in this crucible and form…

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Courage is the most important attribute of a lawyer. It is more important than competence or vision. It can never be an…

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Wars of any magnitude release powerful social and economic forces which can change the whole face of the world.

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If freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom. The two are inseparable partners in the great adventure of humanity.

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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…

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The intolerant man will not rely on persuasion, or on the worth of the idea. He would deny to others the very freedom of…

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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…

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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…

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Men and women with freed minds may often be mistaken, but they are seldom fooled. They may be influenced, but they cannot be intimidated.…

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Prejudice exists and probably will continue to 'but we have tried to make progress and we are making progress. We are not going to…

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Too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things.

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In the final analysis, poverty is a condition of helplessness - of inability to cope with the conditions of existence in our complex society.

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We know that we cannot live together without rules which tell us what is right and what is wrong, what is permitted and what…

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Punishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force.

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The travail of freedom and justice is not easy, but nothing serious and important in life is easy. The history of humanity has been…

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The Gross National Product measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our compassion nor our devotion to…

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Our future may lie beyond our vision, but it is not completely beyond our control. It is the shaping impulse of America that neither…

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