Robert Kennedy
Robert Kennedy
Robert Francis "Bobby" Kennedy, commonly known by his initials RFK, was an American politician from Massachusetts. He served as a senator for New York from 1965 until his assassination in 1968. He was previously the 64th U.S. Attorney General from 1961 to 1964, serving under his older brother, President John F. Kennedy and his successor, President Lyndon B. Johnson. An icon of modern American liberalism and member of the Democratic Party, Kennedy ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in the...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth20 November 1925
CountryUnited States of America
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After all, a bank without assets is hardly a bank at all.
What happens to the country, to the world, depends on what we do with what others have left us.
I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive.
Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.
Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
If freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom. The two are inseparable partners in the great adventure of humanity.
At the heart of western freedom and democracy is the belief that the individual man ... is the touchstone of value, and all society, groups, the state, exist for his benefit. Therefore the enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and abiding practice of any western society.
Perhaps to some extent we have lost sight of the fact that LSD can be very, very helpful in our society if used properly.
Oh no, oh no... don't lift me, don't lift me.
Democracy is no easy form of government. Few nations have been able to sustain it. For it requires that we take the chances of freedom; that the liberating play of reason be brought to bear on events filled with passion; that dissent be allowed to make its appeal for acceptance; that men chance error in their search for the truth.
Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America's water pollution.
We in Government have begun to recognize the critical work which must be done at all levels-local, State and Federal-in ending the pollution of our waters.
One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.
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.