Our answer is the world's hope; it is to rely on youth. The cruelties and the obstacles of this swiftly changing planet will not yield to obsolete dogmas and outworn slogans. It cannot be moved by those who cling to a present which is already dying, who prefer the illusion of security to the excitement and danger which comes with even the most peaceful progress. This world demands the qualities of youth: not a time of life but a state of mind, a temper of the will, a quality of imagination, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the life of ease...
Robert KennedySince 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 KennedyPunishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force.
Robert KennedyI love this city. If I am elected, I'll move the White House to San Francisco. Everybody's so friendly.
Robert KennedyGNP measures neither our courage, our wisdom neither our compassion. It measures everything except what makes life worthwhile
Robert KennedyVirginia States' rights, as our forefathers conceived it, was a protection of the right of the individual citizen. Those who preach most frequently about states' rights today are not those seeking the protection of the individual citizen, but his exploitation. The time is long past โ if indeed it ever existed โ when we should permit the noble concept of states' rights to be betrayed.
Robert Kennedy