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
Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
It is the right of government to protect the weak; it is the right of the weak to find in their courts… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
Where aspirations outstrip opportunities, law-abiding society becomes the victim. Attitudes of contempt toward the law are forged in this crucible and form… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
Courage is the most important attribute of a lawyer. It is more important than competence or vision. It can never be an… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
The hardest problems of all in law enforcement are those involving a conflict of law and local customs. History has recorded many… — 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
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
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
Those who challenge the law in one or another of its aspects weaken the whole legal structure of society. For one man… — 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
What is learned on the athletic field is not forgotten, nor are the lessons of character that are forged there ever lost.… — 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
Lawyers have their duties as citizens, but they also have special duties as lawyers. Their obligations go far deeper than earning a… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Punishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force. — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
