Robert Kennedy Quotes - Page 5

Quotes about:

• Too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things.

  Robert Kennedy

  Long, Community, Excellence

  Robert F. Kennedy (1998). “Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy”, Harcourt

  10 Copy quote

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

  Robert Kennedy

  Freedom, Practice, Goal

  Robert F. Kennedy's Day of Affirmation Address at the University of Capetown, South Africa, www.mtholyoke.edu. June 6, 1966.

  13 Copy quote

• Now I can go back to being ruthless again.

  Robert Kennedy

  Ruthless, I Can

  "Esquire" Magazine, April 1965.

  12 Copy quote

• Our future may lie beyond our vision, but it is not completely beyond our control. It is the shaping impulse of America that neither fate nor nature nor the irresistible tides of history, but the work of our own hands, matched to reason and principle, that will determine our destiny. There is pride in that, even arrogance, but there is also experience and truth. In any event, it is the only way we can live.

  Robert Kennedy

  Nature, Lying, Fate

  6 Copy quote

• We develop the kind of citizens we deserve.

  Robert Kennedy

  Citizens, Kind, Deserve

  Robert F. Kennedy (1964). “Rights for Americans: the speeches of Robert F. Kennedy”

  8 Copy quote

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

  Robert Kennedy

  Freedom, Men, Hands

  Robert F. Kennedy (1964). “Rights for Americans: the speeches of Robert F. Kennedy”

  48 Copy quote

• 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.

  Robert Kennedy

  Responsibility, Rights, Rome

  Robert F. Kennedy, Edwin O. Guthman (1993). “RFK: collected speeches”, Viking Pr

  4 Copy quote

• 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.

  Robert Kennedy

  Running, Country, Strong

  "Robert Francis Kennedy: Attorney General, Senator and Heir of the New Frontier" by Alden Whitman, archive.nytimes.com. June 6, 1968.

  7 Copy quote

• 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.

  Robert Kennedy

  Would Be, Worried

  "The Kennedys: An American Drama" by Peter Collier, David Horowitz, (p. 249), 1984.

  4 Copy quote

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

  Robert Kennedy

  Pearls, Planning, Harbors

  Robert F. Kennedy (1969). “13 Days: The Cuban Missile Crisis October 1962”, p.36, Springer

  4 Copy quote

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

  Robert Kennedy

  World Government, Order, Nwo

  10 Copy quote

• 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.

  Robert Kennedy

  Struggle, Men, Rights

  Robert F. Kennedy, Edwin O. Guthman (1993). “RFK: collected speeches”, Viking Pr

  5 Copy quote

• 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.

  Robert Kennedy

  Art, Ambition, Passing Moments

  Robert F. Kennedy (1998). “Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy”, Harcourt

  10 Copy quote

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

  Robert Kennedy

  Adventure, Two, Humanity

  Robert F. Kennedy (1964). “The Pursuit of Justice”, New York : Harper & Row

  8 Copy quote

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

  Robert Kennedy

  Freedom, Mean, Liberty

  Robert F. Kennedy (1964). “The Pursuit of Justice”, New York : Harper & Row

  9 Copy quote

• 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.

  Robert Kennedy

  Believe, World, This Generation

  Robert F. Kennedy (1967). “To seek a newer world”, Doubleday Books

  7 Copy quote

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

  Robert Kennedy

  Moving, Cities, White

  7 Copy quote

• 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.

  Robert Kennedy

  Forever, Growth, Society

  Robert F. Kennedy (1962). “"We Must Meet Our Duty and Convince the World that We are Just Friends and Brave Enemies". (1. Ed.)”

  9 Copy quote

• 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.'

  Robert Kennedy

  Progress, Prejudice, Accepting

  4 Copy quote

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

  Robert Kennedy

  Children, Generations, Accounting

  Robert F. Kennedy (1964). “Rights for Americans: the speeches of Robert F. Kennedy”

  5 Copy quote

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

  Robert Kennedy

  Believe, Men, Long

  Robert F. Kennedy (1964). “The Pursuit of Justice”, New York : Harper & Row

  4 Copy quote

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

  Robert Kennedy

  Children, Views, Birth Control

  7 Copy quote

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

  Robert Kennedy

  Courage, Yield, Eulogy

  Robert F. Kennedy (1998). “Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy”, Harcourt

  7 Copy quote

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

  Robert Kennedy

  Courage, Peace, Volunteer

  Robert F. Kennedy (1968). “"An Honorable profession": a tribute to Robert F. Kennedy”

  17 Copy quote

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

  Robert Kennedy

  Worthwhile, Gross, Products

  "Bobby Kennedy on GDP: 'measures everything except that which is worthwhile'" by Simon Rogers, www.theguardian.com. May 24, 2012.

  5 Copy quote

Page 5 of 6

First

← Prev

1

2

3

4

5

6

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin