Quotes from Robert Kennedy

Now I can go back to being ruthless again.

The history of antitrust law enforcement shows that successful antitrust prosecutions have often strengthened and brought vitality to extremely large companies and businesses.

The right to vote is the easiest of all rights to grant.

The most significant civil rights problem is voting. Each citizen's right to vote is fundamental to all the other rights of citizenship and the Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960 make it the responsibility of the Department of Justice to protect that right.

Wars of any magnitude release powerful social and economic forces which can change the whole face of the world.

I have told friends and supporters who are urging me to run that I would not oppose President Johnson under any foreseeable circumstances.

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

There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?

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

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.

It is the essence of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain

I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil. Government belongs wherever evil needs an adversary and there are people in distress.

I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.

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

GDP does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education, or the joy of their play

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.

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.

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

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.

Too often we honor swagger and bluster and the wielders of force; too often we excuse those who are willing to build their own lives on the shattered dreams of others.

Send forth a tiny ripple of hope.

We know that we cannot live together without rules which tell us what is right and what is wrong, what is permitted and what is prohibited. We know that it is law which enables men to live together, that creates order out of chaos. We know that law is the glue that holds civilization together.

It is the right of government to protect the weak; it is the right of the weak to find in their courts fair treatment before the law.