Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portio...
ROBERT F. KENNEDY If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of ...
ROBERT F. KENNEDY Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
ROBERT F. KENNEDY One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.
ROBERT F. KENNEDY We in Government have begun to recognize the critical work which must be done at all levels--local, ...
ROBERT F. KENNEDY There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never wer...
ROBERT F. KENNEDY Don't get mad, get even.
ROBERT F. KENNEDY Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. -Robert F. Kennedy.
ROBERT F. KENNEDY Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portio...
ROBERT F. KENNEDY I believe that in this generation those with the courage to enter the conflict will find themselves ...
ROBERT F. KENNEDY The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulge...
ROBERT F. KENNEDY Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against...
ROBERT F. KENNEDY He knows all the facts, and he's against all the solutions.
ROBERT F. KENNEDY Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the ...
ROBERT F. KENNEDY Justice delayed is democracy denied.
ROBERT F. KENNEDY Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator and change has its enemies.
ROBERT F. KENNEDY Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portio...
ROBERT F. KENNEDY It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a m...
ROBERT F. KENNEDY Too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community values in the ...
ROBERT F. KENNEDY The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.
ROBERT F. KENNEDY We can move in that direction as a country, in greater polarization - black people amongst blacks, a...
ROBERT F. KENNEDY It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a m...
ROBERT F. KENNEDY Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever acheive greatly.
ROBERT F. KENNEDY We have spoken out against inhuman slaughters perpetrated by the Nazis and the Communists. But will ...
ROBERT F. KENNEDY A revolution is coming – a revolution which will be peaceful if we are wise enough; compassionate ...
ROBERT F. KENNEDY Every time we turn our heads the other way when we see the law flouted, when we tolerate what we kno...
ROBERT F. KENNEDY Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their peers, the censure of their colleagues, the wr...
ROBERT F. KENNEDY In the final analysis, poverty is a condition of helplessness - of inability to cope with the condit...
ROBERT KENNEDY I come from a family that has always emphasized and enjoyed sports - golf, tennis, football, basebal...
ROBERT KENNEDY Where aspirations outstrip opportunities, law-abiding society becomes the victim. Attitudes of conte...
ROBERT KENNEDY Even as my father grew up in Boston, Massachusetts, signs told him: 'No Irish Need Apply.'
ROBERT KENNEDY I have told friends and supporters who are urging me to run that I would not oppose President Johnso...
ROBERT KENNEDY It is one thing to open the schools to all children regardless of race. It is another to train the t...
ROBERT KENNEDY Ultimately, Communism must be defeated by progressive political programs which wipe out the poverty,...
ROBERT KENNEDY A high standard of living cannot remain the exclusive possession of the West - and the sooner we can...
ROBERT KENNEDY If I get to be president, what can I do anyway? With Congress and the press, what chance do I have t...
ROBERT KENNEDY Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedo...
ROBERT KENNEDY Satellite communications connect television screens in Japan with television cameras in England, and...
ROBERT KENNEDY To the extent that laws are founded on morality and on logic, they can lead men's hearts and min...
ROBERT KENNEDY I am ashamed to report that my father, who is 73, has never been beaten by any of his four sons in g...
ROBERT KENNEDY Let me make it clear that the Youth Employment Opportunities Act of 1961 is not primarily concerned ...
ROBERT KENNEDY Our scientists grapple with the difficulties of placing a man on the moon, but the immediately troub...
ROBERT KENNEDY American books reflect our common heritage with many other nations and their influence upon our cult...
ROBERT KENNEDY Within the United States, we have put great emphasis upon political freedoms. Because it has been ou...
ROBERT KENNEDY In the long run, a flexible sentencing procedure which works to rehabilitate offenders offers the be...
ROBERT KENNEDY It is easy to overlook the importance of the young in underdeveloped countries. It is the natural co...
ROBERT KENNEDY The ultimate relationship between justice and law will be an eternal subject for speculation and ana...
ROBERT KENNEDY Freedom possesses many meanings. It speaks not merely in terms of political and religious liberty bu...
ROBERT KENNEDY I thought they'd get one of us, but Jack, after all he's been through, never worried about i...
ROBERT KENNEDY The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.
ROBERT KENNEDY Martin Luther King dedicated his life to love and to justice between fellow human beings. He died in...
ROBERT KENNEDY I do not run for the presidency merely to oppose any man, but to propose new policies. I run because...
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 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. ...
ROBERT KENNEDY If freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom.
ROBERT KENNEDY I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
ROBERT KENNEDY Every American has the duty to obey the law and the right to expect that the law will be enforced.
ROBERT KENNEDY Everything that makes man's life worthwhile - family, work, education, a place to rear one's...
ROBERT KENNEDY Our generation was born during the turmoil following the First World War. That war marked the dividi...
ROBERT KENNEDY Circumstances of crimes vary. So do motives. And so do prospects for rehabilitation. The number of i...
ROBERT KENNEDY If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of ...
ROBERT KENNEDY Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community ge...
ROBERT KENNEDY The Gross National Product measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our lear...
ROBERT KENNEDY All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don't. And if our t...
ROBERT KENNEDY We develop the kind of citizens we deserve. If a large number of our children grow up into frustrati...
ROBERT KENNEDY One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.
ROBERT KENNEDY The travail of freedom and justice is not easy, but nothing serious and important in life is easy. T...
ROBERT KENNEDY The glory of justice and the majesty of law are created not just by the Constitution - nor by the co...
ROBERT KENNEDY Since the days of Greece and Rome, when the word 'citizen' was a title of honor, we have oft...
ROBERT KENNEDY Hand in hand with freedom of speech goes the power to be heard, to share in the decisions of governm...
ROBERT KENNEDY Tolerating organized crime promotes the cheap philosophy that everything is a racket. It promotes cy...
ROBERT KENNEDY One of the primary purposes of civilization - and certainly its primary strength - is the guarantee ...
ROBERT KENNEDY Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our he...
ROBERT KENNEDY There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the ...
ROBERT KENNEDY Unions, by and large, are democratic organizations with freely chosen leaders and policies determine...
ROBERT KENNEDY Communism counts its opportunities in terms of decades - not of weeks. Its means of aggression consi...
ROBERT KENNEDY The hardest problems of all in law enforcement are those involving a conflict of law and local custo...
ROBERT KENNEDY Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against...
ROBERT KENNEDY Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portio...
ROBERT KENNEDY Lawyers have their duties as citizens, but they also have special duties as lawyers. Their obligatio...
ROBERT KENNEDY Lack of education, old age, bad health or discrimination - these are causes of poverty, and the way ...
ROBERT KENNEDY One can find a squalid America as easily as a scenic America; a bitter, hopeless America as easily a...
ROBERT KENNEDY We in the United States believe in the protection of minorities; we recognize the contributions that...
ROBERT KENNEDY We must continue to prove to the world that we can provide a rising standard of living for all men w...
ROBERT KENNEDY Some men see things as they are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were, and ask why not.
ROBERT KENNEDY America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity - the very diversity which our heritage of r...
ROBERT KENNEDY In my judgment, physical fitness is basic to all forms of excellence and to a strong, confident nati...
ROBERT KENNEDY Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
ROBERT KENNEDY What is learned on the athletic field is not forgotten, nor are the lessons of character that are fo...
ROBERT KENNEDY When I was counsel for the Senate Rackets Committee, about 25% of the important leads which our comm...
ROBERT KENNEDY Yesterday, we fought wars which destroyed cities. Today, we are concerned with avoiding a war which ...
ROBERT KENNEDY I don't believe newspaper reporters can substitute for a district attorney, but a newspaper has ...
ROBERT KENNEDY Automation provides us with wondrous increases of production and information, but does it tell us wh...
ROBERT KENNEDY Every generation inherits a world it never made; and, as it does so, it automatically becomes the tr...
ROBERT KENNEDY What has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created? No martyr's cause has ever been s...
ROBERT KENNEDY The tyranny of Communism is as old as the Pharaohs and the Pyramids - that the State stands above al...
ROBERT KENNEDY It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human a...
ROBERT KENNEDY We know that freedom has many dimensions. It is the right of the man who tills the land to own the l...
ROBERT KENNEDY President Kennedy's election was such an enlargement. It expanded religious freedom to include t...
ROBERT KENNEDY The United States was born in revolution and nurtured by struggle. Throughout our history, the Ameri...
ROBERT KENNEDY The history of antitrust law enforcement shows that successful antitrust prosecutions have often str...
ROBERT KENNEDY Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man ...
ROBERT KENNEDY Communism everywhere has paid the price of rigidity and dogmatism. Freedom has the strength of compa...
ROBERT KENNEDY In government, our chief executives have been lawyers. The great majority of our cabinets and congre...
ROBERT KENNEDY Nothing is more false than the notion that the triumph of Communism is inevitable or that the Commun...
ROBERT KENNEDY There's a way to log many of these rainforests without destroying them, to do it sustainably. And we...
ROBERT KENNEDY There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never wer...
ROBERT KENNEDY You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.
ROBERT KENNEDY This is not about character assassination, ... This is about questioning the ideology of a person wh...
ROBERT KENNEDY It really broke him up. Those experiences have had a profound impact on me. It's just so striking wh...
ROBERT KENNEDY The greatest truth must be recognition that in every man, in every child is the potential for greatn...
ROBERT KENNEDY I've talked to students from Ivy League colleges who don't know their professors well enough to ask ...
ROBERT KENNEDY All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don't. And if our times...
ROBERT KENNEDY The way it works is that if I bring another partner to the table, I maintain control of the account....
ROBERT KENNEDY All attempts at mutual education are important to help us grow. It widens our vision.
ROBERT KENNEDY We are still evaluating what this decision means and what the dollar effect is on the state. But it'...
ROBERT KENNEDY I think it belongs to the family and we can get rid of it any way we want to.
ROBERT KENNEDY the worst administration on the environment in our history.
ROBERT KENNEDY It will help erase the idea that politics is a second-rate profession and a dirty business.
ROBERT KENNEDY President Kennedy has named two Negroes to District Judgeships and appointed Thurgood Marshall to th...
ROBERT KENNEDY In the cases that come before the Department of Justice involving a wide range of unlawful activitie...
ROBERT KENNEDY I like to be involved in politics. I like to be involved in government. I've been in politics al...
ROBERT KENNEDY It certainly should not surprise us that a young person without any real stake in a legitimate occup...
ROBERT KENNEDY I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
JOHN F. KENNEDY I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether the...
JOHN F. KENNEDY I am the Democratic Party's candidate for president who happens also to be a Catholic. I do not ...
JOHN F. KENNEDY We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.
JOHN F. KENNEDY Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disp...
JOHN F. KENNEDY America has tossed its cap over the wall of space.
JOHN F. KENNEDY In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all ...
JOHN F. KENNEDY I don't think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New Yor...
JOHN F. KENNEDY My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight.
JOHN F. KENNEDY I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planet...
JOHN F. KENNEDY I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy; Dear Jack, Don't buy a single vote mo...
JOHN F. KENNEDY The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.
JOHN F. KENNEDY The United States has to move very fast to even stand still.
JOHN F. KENNEDY We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have th...
JOHN F. KENNEDY Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore...
JOHN F. KENNEDY Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been pas...
JOHN F. KENNEDY For in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We a...
JOHN F. KENNEDY History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to ...
JOHN F. KENNEDY The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of ...
JOHN F. KENNEDY The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is...
JOHN F. KENNEDY I'm an idealist without illusions.
JOHN F. KENNEDY We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.
JOHN F. KENNEDY We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philoso...
JOHN F. KENNEDY The pay is good and I can walk to work.
JOHN F. KENNEDY There are many people in the world who really don't understand-or say they don't-what is the...
JOHN F. KENNEDY The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capita...
JOHN F. KENNEDY In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending fre...
JOHN F. KENNEDY Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place.
JOHN F. KENNEDY When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad a...
JOHN F. KENNEDY I am not the Catholic candidate for President. I am the Democratic Party's candidate for Preside...
JOHN F. KENNEDY I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been ...
JOHN F. KENNEDY A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public lif...
JOHN F. KENNEDY If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he mus...
JOHN F. KENNEDY Why should man's first flight to the moon be a matter of national competition? Why should the Un...
JOHN F. KENNEDY We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make...
JOHN F. KENNEDY There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some m...
JOHN F. KENNEDY Sure it's a big job; but I don't know anyone who can do it better than I can.
JOHN F. KENNEDY A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a natio...
JOHN F. KENNEDY We stand today on the edge of a new frontier - the frontier of the 1960's - a frontier of unknow...
JOHN F. KENNEDY War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and...
JOHN F. KENNEDY The human mind is our fundamental resource.
JOHN F. KENNEDY For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the...
JOHN F. KENNEDY Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their ch...
JOHN F. KENNEDY When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents dan...
JOHN F. KENNEDY The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.
JOHN F. KENNEDY We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch - we are...
JOHN F. KENNEDY Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
JOHN F. KENNEDY Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon an...
JOHN F. KENNEDY