Top 28 Robert F. Kennedy Quotes
#1. Someone once said that World War Three would be fought with atomic weapons and the next war with sticks and stones.
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#2. That was the beginning of the Cuban missile crisis - a confrontation between the two giant atomic nations, the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., which brought the world to the abyss of nuclear destruction and the end of mankind. From
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#3. Lets dedicate ourselves to what the ancient greeks wrote so many years ago, to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world. Let us dedicate ourselves to that
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#4. All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don't. And if our times are difficult and perplexing, so are they challenging and filled with opportunity.
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#5. The sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country.
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#7. What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.
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#8. Fear not the path of Truth for the lack of People walking on it.
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#9. Too often we honor swagger and bluster and wielders of force; too often we excuse those who are willing to build their own lives on the shattered dreams of others.
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#11. We have spoken out against inhuman slaughters perpetrated by the Nazis and the Communists. But will we speak out also against the inhuman slaughter in Indonesia, where over 100,000 alleged Communists have been not perpetrators, but victims?
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#12. Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
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#13. There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?
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#14. Instead, so long as Kennedy lived and Khrushchev stayed in power, there was steady movement toward the relaxation of tension - the American University speech, the Limited Test Ban Treaty, the establishment of the "hotline" between the White House and the Kremlin.
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#15. I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil. Government belongs wherever evil needs an adversary and there are people in distress.
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#16. Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
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#17. A hopeless man is a very desperate and dangerous man, almost a dead man.
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#19. This world demands the qualities of youth; not a time of life but a state of mind, a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the life of ease.
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#20. The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.
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#22. What my father said about businessmen applies to liberals ... They're sons of bitches. The people who are selfish are interested in their own singular course of action and do not take into consideration the needs or requirements of others and what can ultimately be accomplished.
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#23. In the nuclear age, superpowers make war like porcupines make love - carefully.
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#27. People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless, I shall destroy him.
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#28. I did not lie awake at night worrying about the problems of Negroes.
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