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Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
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Unfortunately, our affluent society has also been an effluent society.
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Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.
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Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.
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To be realistic today is to be visionary. To be realistic is to be starry-eyed.
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There are incalculable resources in the human spirit, once it has been set free.
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The President has only 190 million bosses. The Vice President has 190 million and one.
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The ugliness of bigotry stands in direct contradiction to the very meaning of America.
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We need an America with the wisdom of experience. But we must not let America grow old in spirit.
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I learned more about economics from one South Dakota dust storm than I did in all my years at college.
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Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.
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There are not enough jails, not enough policemen, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people.
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The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.
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Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.
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What we need are critical lovers of America - patriots who express their faith in their country by working to improve it.
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We will be remembered not for the power of our weapons but for the power of our compassion, our dedication to human welfare.
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The Senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions, and if the road to hell is paved with them, then it's a pretty good detour.
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Liberalism, above all, means emancipation - emancipation from one's fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination, from poverty.
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If I believe in something, I will fight for it, with all I have. But I do not demand all or nothing. I would rather get something than nothing.
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It is not enough to merely defend democracy. To defend it may be to lose it; to extend it is to strengthen it. Democracy is not property; it is an idea.
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The good old days were never that good, believe me. The good new days are today, and better days are coming tomorrow. Our greatest songs are still unsung.
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I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known.
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For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end.
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The pursuit of peace resembles the building of a great cathedral. It is the work of a generation. In concept it requires a mater-architect; in execution, the labors of many.
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In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.
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Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
Robert F. Kennedy
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Born:
May 27, 1911
Died:
January 13, 1978
(aged 66)
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