Robert F. Kennedy Quotes

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

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

I thought they'd get one of us, but Jack, after all he'd been through, never worried about it.... I thought it would be me.

One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.

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.

In the words of the old saying, 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.

What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.

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

The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.