Robert Kennedy Quotes

We know that if one man's rights are denied, the rights of all are endangered.

If freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom. The two are inseparable partners in the great adventure of humanity.

We develop the kind of citizens we deserve.

I am not one of those who think that coming in second or third is winning.

The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.

Every dictatorship has ultimately strangled in the web of repression it wove for its people, making mistakes that could not be corrected because criticism was prohibited.

I run because I am convinced that this country is on a perilous course and I have such strong feelings about what must be done.

I believe that in this generation those with the courage to enter the conflict will find themselves with companions in every corner of the world.

I love this city. If I am elected, I'll move the White House to San Francisco. Everybody's so friendly.

My views on birth control are somewhat distorted by the fact that I was seventh of nine children.

Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change.

One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.

I'm tired of chasing people.

We in Government have begun to recognize the critical work which must be done at all levels-local, State and Federal-in ending the pollution of our waters.

[The overthrow of the Castro regime] is the top priority of the US government. - all else is secondary - no time, no effort, or manpower is to be spared.

Men and women with freed minds may often be mistaken, but they are seldom fooled. They may be influenced, but they cannot be intimidated. They may be perplexed, but they will never be lost.

What happens to the country, to the world, depends on what we do with what others have left us.

You knew that what is given or granted can be taken away, that what is begged can be refused; but that what is earned is kept.

Your life can be anything you want it to be.

Each generation makes it's own accounting to its children.

The Gross National Product measures everything except that which makes life worthwhile.

Oh no, oh no... don't lift me, don't lift me.

A life without criticism is not worth living.

Punishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force.

Since the days of Greece and Rome the word 'citizen' was a title of honor. We have often seen more emphasis put on the rights of citizenship than on its responsibilities.

I thought they'd get one of us, but Jack, after all he's been through, never worried about it I thought it would be me.

I believe that as long as a single man may try, any unjustifiable barrier against his efforts is a barrier against mankind.

Killing one man is murder. Killing millions is a statistic

Prejudice exists and probably will continue to 'but we have tried to make progress and we are making progress. We are not going to accept the status quo.'

In Massachusetts they [Democratic politicians] steal, in California they feud, and in New York they lie.

In my judgment, the slogan "black power" and what has been associated with it has set the civil rights movement back considerably in the United States over the period of the last several months.

I now know how Tojo felt when he was planning Pearl Harbor.

It will help erase the idea that politics is a second-rate profession and a dirty business.

I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive.

After all, a bank without assets is hardly a bank at all.

Courage is the most important attribute of a lawyer.

Always do what you're afraid to do"-Robert F. Kennedy

The world of sports knows no religious, racial or political differences. Athletes, from whatever land they come, speak the same language. The lessons of competition are lessons for life.

I come from a family that has always emphasized and enjoyed sports - golf, tennis, football, baseball and the rest.

One of the primary purposes of civilization - and certainly its primary strength - is the guarantee that family life can flourish in unity, peace, and order.

Communism everywhere has paid the price of rigidity and dogmatism. Freedom has the strength of compassion and flexibility. It has, above all, the strength of intellectual honesty.

Lack of education, old age, bad health or discrimination - these are causes of poverty, and the way to attack it is to go to the root.

From the first moment of independence, the United States has been dedicated to innovation as a way of government and a way of life.

The United States was born in revolution and nurtured by struggle. Throughout our history, the American people have befriended and supported all those who seek independence and a better way of life.

Hand in hand with freedom of speech goes the power to be heard, to share in the decisions of government which shape men's lives.

If I get to be president, what can I do anyway? With Congress and the press, what chance do I have to make basic changes?

I am deeply impressed with the gravity and wisdom with which most federal judges approach the responsibility of sentencing. It is a difficult, soul-searching task at best.

Some men see things as they are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were, and ask why not.

We must continue to prove to the world that we can provide a rising standard of living for all men without loss of civil rights or human dignity to any man.

In my judgment, physical fitness is basic to all forms of excellence and to a strong, confident nation.