135 Quotes by Robert F. Kennedy

"Someone once said that World War Three would be fought with atomic weapons and the next war with sticks and stones."

"Together, we can make ourselves a nation that spends more on books than on bombs, more on hospitals than the terrible tools of war, more on decent houses than military aircraft."

"Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies."

"Some men see the world as it is and say ‘Why?’ I see the world as it could be and say, ‘Why not?’"

"In the nuclear age, superpowers make war like porcupines make love – carefully."

"The essential humanity of men can be protected and preserved only where government must answer, not just to the wealthy, not just to those of a particular religion, or a particular race, but to all its people."

"The future is not a gift: it is an achievement. Every generation helps make its own future. This is the essential challenge of the present."

"Recent scholarship confirms the portrait of John F. Kennedy sketched by his brother in Thirteen Days: a remarkably cool, thoughtful, nonhysterical, self-possessed leader, aware of the weight of decision, incisive in his questions, firm in his judgment, always in charge, steering his advisers perseveringly in the direction he wanted to go. “We are only now coming to understand the role he played in it,” writes John Lewis Gaddis, the premier historian of the Cold War."

"If our constitution had followed the style of Saint Paul, the First Amendment might have concluded: “But the greatest of these is speech.” In the darkness of tyranny, this is the key to the sunlight. If it is granted, all doors open. If it is withheld, none."

"It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped."