Quotes by Famous Americans Past and Present
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Quotes by Famous Americans Past and Present
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Robert F. Kennedy Quotes Click here for Robert F Kennedy books "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." "Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired." "The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use — of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public." "A revolution is coming — a revolution which will be peaceful if we are wise enough; compassionate if we care enough; successful if we are fortunate enough — But a revolution which is coming whether we will it or not. We can affect its character; we cannot alter its inevitability." "At the heart of that Western freedom and democracy is the belief that the individual man, the child of God, is the touchstone of value, and all society, all groups, and states, exist for his benefit. Therefore the enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and the abiding practice of any Western society." "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." "The essential humanity of men can be protected and preserved only where government must answer — not just to the wealthy, not just to those of a particular religion, or a particular race, but to all its people." "Nations, like men, often march to the beat of different drummers, and the precise solutions of the United States can neither be dictated nor transplanted to others." "Only those who dare to fail greatly, can ever achieve greatly." "Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence." "As long as men are hungry, and their children uneducated, and their crops destroyed by pestilence, the American Revolution will have a part to play. As long as men are not free — in their lives and in their opinions, their speech and their knowledge — that long will the American Revolution not be finished." "But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as an inferior, and God is there, and we look up and He is not white? What then is our response?" "Democracy is no easy form of government. Few nations have been able to sustain it." "Each generation makes its own accounting to its children." "I am not one of those who think that coming in second or third is winning." "I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive." "It is more important to be of service than successful." "Nations around the world look to us for the leadership not merely by strength of arms but by strength of our convictions." "On this generation of Americans
falls the burden of proving to the world that we really mean it when we say all
men are created free and are equal before the law." |
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