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In ways to greatness think on this, That slippery all ambition is


Robert Herrick

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ROBERT KENNEDY When our forbears - yours and mine - came to America, they came because this country promised them s...
ROBERT KENNEDY Those who challenge the law in one or another of its aspects weaken the whole legal structure of soc...
ROBERT KENNEDY The fact that free men persist in the search for the truth is the essential difference between Commu...
ROBERT KENNEDY There has been far too much hypocrisy in the field of civil rights. It is easy enough to give rousin...
ROBERT KENNEDY It is the right of government to protect the weak; it is the right of the weak to find in their cour...
ROBERT KENNEDY Now I can go back to being ruthless again.
ROBERT KENNEDY The poor man looks upon the law as an enemy, not as a friend. For him, the law is always taking some...
ROBERT KENNEDY We know that we cannot live together without rules which tell us what is right and what is wrong, wh...
ROBERT KENNEDY I can understand the Chinese Wall: it was built as a defense against marauders. But a wall such as t...
ROBERT KENNEDY From the first moment of independence, the United States has been dedicated to innovation as a way o...
ROBERT KENNEDY Desegregation of schools does not automatically transform them into better schools. It is only a ste...
ROBERT KENNEDY In truth, the world is now a seamless web from which no nation, large or small, young or old, can di...
ROBERT KENNEDY We will find neither national purpose nor personal satisfaction in a mere continuation of economic p...
ROBERT KENNEDY But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as a...
ROBERT KENNEDY The leaders of the world face no greater task than that of avoiding nuclear war. While preserving th...
ROBERT KENNEDY The most significant civil rights problem is voting. Each citizen's right to vote is fundamental...
ROBERT KENNEDY People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless, I sha...
ROBERT KENNEDY The world of sports knows no religious, racial or political differences. Athletes, from whatever lan...
ROBERT KENNEDY No one needs to tell me about the importance of the free press in a democratic society or about the ...
ROBERT KENNEDY I believe indeterminate sentencing can be extremely useful, but I also believe that any such system ...
ROBERT KENNEDY One of the great creative statesmen of our age was Franklin Roosevelt. He was creative precisely bec...
ROBERT KENNEDY Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.
ROBERT HALF Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
ROBERT KENNEDY What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists, is not that they are extreme, but that th...
ROBERT KENNEDY Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
ROBERT KENNEDY Elections remind us not only of the rights but the responsibilities of citizenship in a democracy.
ROBERT KENNEDY When companies get together secretly to fix prices and attempt to eliminate competition, honest busi...
ROBERT KENNEDY The eradication of racial and religious prejudice in the United States - and in the rest of the worl...
ROBERT KENNEDY Yesterday, we sought telescopes good enough to see all the planets. Today, we seek vehicles good eno...
ROBERT KENNEDY I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive...
ROBERT KENNEDY In the last analysis, our every right is only worth what our lawyer makes it worth.
ROBERT KENNEDY The Gross National Product includes the destruction of the redwoods and the death of Lake Superior. ...
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