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. -Robert Kennedy Freedom
In government, our chief executives have been lawyers. The great majority of our cabinets and congresses are and have been men trained in the law. They have provided the leadership and the statecraft and the store of strength when it was needed. -Robert Kennedy Leadership
The ultimate relationship between justice and law will be an eternal subject for speculation and analysis. But it may be said that in a democratic society, law is the form which free men give to justice. -Robert Kennedy Relationship
The travail of freedom and justice is not easy, but nothing serious and important in life is easy. The history of humanity has been a continuing struggle against temptation and tyranny - and very little worthwhile has ever been achieved without pain. -Robert Kennedy History
The glory of justice and the majesty of law are created not just by the Constitution - nor by the courts - nor by the officers of the law - nor by the lawyers - but by the men and women who constitute our society - who are the protectors of the law as they are themselves protected by the law. -Robert Kennedy Society
We must continue to prove to the world that we can provide a rising standard of living for all men without loss of civil rights or human dignity to any man. -Robert Kennedy Men
Some men see things as they are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were, and ask why not. -Robert Kennedy Men
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. -Robert Kennedy Change
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. -Robert Kennedy Men
In government, our chief executives have been lawyers. The great majority of our cabinets and congresses are and have been men trained in the law. They have provided the leadership and the statecraft and the store of strength when it was needed. -Robert Kennedy Strength
The world of sports knows no religious, racial or political differences. Athletes, from whatever land they come, speak the same language. The lessons of competition are lessons for life. -Robert Kennedy Sports
Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on. -Robert Kennedy Society
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. -Robert Kennedy Health
Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired. -Robert Kennedy Freedom
The leaders of the world face no greater task than that of avoiding nuclear war. While preserving the cause of freedom, we must seek abolition of war through programs of general and complete disarmament. The Test-Ban Treaty of 1963 represents a significant beginning in this immense undertaking. -Robert Kennedy War
Those who challenge the law in one or another of its aspects weaken the whole legal structure of society. For one man to disobey a law he does not like is to invite others to disobey another law which he may regard as indispensable to his own livelihood - or life. -Robert Kennedy Legal
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? -Robert Kennedy God
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. -Robert Kennedy Strength
A high standard of living cannot remain the exclusive possession of the West - and the sooner we can help other peoples to develop their resources, raise their living standards, and strengthen their national independence, the safer the world will be for us all. -Robert Kennedy Independence
The glory of justice and the majesty of law are created not just by the Constitution - nor by the courts - nor by the officers of the law - nor by the lawyers - but by the men and women who constitute our society - who are the protectors of the law as they are themselves protected by the law. -Robert Kennedy Women
