Robert Kennedy Quotes - Page 5

The enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and abiding practice of any western society.

Now I can go back to being ruthless again.

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

We develop the kind of citizens we deserve.

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 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 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.

The road toward equality of freedom is not easy, and great cost and danger march alongside us. We are committed to peaceful and nonviolent change, and that is important for all to understand - though all change is unsettling. Still, even in the turbulence of protest and struggle is greater hope for the future, as men learn to claim and achieve for themselves the rights formerly petitioned from others.

Goethe tells us in his greatest poem that Faust lost the liberty of his soul when he said to the passing moment, 'Stay, thou art so fair.

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

Killing one man is murder. Killing millions is a statistic

All of us will ultimately be judged on the effort we have contributed to building a new world order.

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

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

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.'

It is an unfinished society that we offer the world-a society that is forever committed to change, to improvement and to growth, that will never stagnate in the certitude of ideology or the finalities of dogma.

Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.

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.

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

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

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

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

It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped.

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

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