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" Since the days of Greece and Rome, when 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 Kennedy

Citizenship

Rome

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" 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. "

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" The fact that free men persist in the search for the truth is the essential difference between Communism and Democracy. "

" Automation provides us with wondrous increases of production and information, but does it tell us what to do with the men the machines displace? Modern industry gives us the capacity for unparalleled wealth - but where is our capacity to make that wealth meaningful to the poor of every nation? "

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

" Where aspirations outstrip opportunities, law-abiding society becomes the victim. Attitudes of contempt toward the law are forged in this crucible and form the inner core of the beliefs of organized adult crime. "

" One of the great creative statesmen of our age was Franklin Roosevelt. He was creative precisely because he preferred experiment to ideology. "

" 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. "

" America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity - the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired. "

" 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. "

Robert Kennedy

Through

Thought

" From the first moment of independence, the United States has been dedicated to innovation as a way of government and a way of life. "

" Science began as one of the noblest expressions of man's reason. It will continue to serve humanity so long as it never forgets that human beings remain the heart of its purpose. "

" I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive. "

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

" Satellite communications connect television screens in Japan with television cameras in England, and the distance of half a world loses its meaning. "

" One can find a squalid America as easily as a scenic America; a bitter, hopeless America as easily as the confident America of polyethylene wrapping, new cars, and camping trips in the summer. "

" Every generation inherits a world it never made; and, as it does so, it automatically becomes the trustee of that world for those who come after. In due course, each generation makes its own accounting to its children. "

" 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. "

" I come from a family that has always emphasized and enjoyed sports - golf, tennis, football, baseball and the rest. "

" Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live. "

" The Gross National Product measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country. It measures everything, in short, except that which makes life worthwhile, and it can tell us everything about America - except whether we are proud to be Americans. "

" Let me make it clear that the Youth Employment Opportunities Act of 1961 is not primarily concerned with delinquency prevention. Rather, it is designed to help all types of young men or women who suffer deficiencies of training or opportunity which keep them unemployed. "

" We will find neither national purpose nor personal satisfaction in a mere continuation of economic progress, in an endless amassing of worldly goods. We cannot measure national spirit by the Dow Jones Average, nor national achievement by the Gross National Product. "

" Circumstances of crimes vary. So do motives. And so do prospects for rehabilitation. The number of imponderables makes it impossible to sentence by formula and still sentence justly. "

" The hardest problems of all in law enforcement are those involving a conflict of law and local customs. History has recorded many occasions when the moral sense of a nation produced judicial decisions, such as the 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education, which required difficult local adjustments. "

" It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity, by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task. "

" In the cases that come before the Department of Justice involving a wide range of unlawful activities, we see repeated evidence of family and community failures. "

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