Each nation has different obstacles and different goals, shaped by the vagaries of history and of experience. Yet as I talk to… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
Together, we can make ourselves a nation that spends more on books than on bombs, more on hospitals than the terrible tools… — 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
Nations around the world look to us for the leadership not merely by strength of arms but by strength of our convictions. — 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
It is easy to overlook the importance of the young in underdeveloped countries. It is the natural course for nations, and diplomats,… — 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