And once more yet (ere I am laid out dead)Knock at a star with my exalted head


Robert Herrick

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ROBERT KENNEDY
I have told friends and supporters who are urging me to run that I would not oppose President Johnso...
ROBERT KENNEDY
It is one thing to open the schools to all children regardless of race. It is another to train the t...
ROBERT KENNEDY
Ultimately, Communism must be defeated by progressive political programs which wipe out the poverty,...
ROBERT KENNEDY
A high standard of living cannot remain the exclusive possession of the West - and the sooner we can...
ROBERT KENNEDY
If I get to be president, what can I do anyway? With Congress and the press, what chance do I have t...
ROBERT KENNEDY
Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedo...
ROBERT KENNEDY
Satellite communications connect television screens in Japan with television cameras in England, and...
ROBERT KENNEDY
To the extent that laws are founded on morality and on logic, they can lead men's hearts and min...
ROBERT KENNEDY
I am ashamed to report that my father, who is 73, has never been beaten by any of his four sons in g...
ROBERT KENNEDY
Let me make it clear that the Youth Employment Opportunities Act of 1961 is not primarily concerned ...
ROBERT KENNEDY
Our scientists grapple with the difficulties of placing a man on the moon, but the immediately troub...
ROBERT KENNEDY
American books reflect our common heritage with many other nations and their influence upon our cult...
ROBERT KENNEDY
Within the United States, we have put great emphasis upon political freedoms. Because it has been ou...
ROBERT KENNEDY
In the long run, a flexible sentencing procedure which works to rehabilitate offenders offers the be...
ROBERT KENNEDY
It is easy to overlook the importance of the young in underdeveloped countries. It is the natural co...
ROBERT KENNEDY
The ultimate relationship between justice and law will be an eternal subject for speculation and ana...
ROBERT KENNEDY
Freedom possesses many meanings. It speaks not merely in terms of political and religious liberty bu...
ROBERT KENNEDY
I thought they'd get one of us, but Jack, after all he's been through, never worried about i...
ROBERT KENNEDY
The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.
ROBERT KENNEDY
Martin Luther King dedicated his life to love and to justice between fellow human beings. He died in...
ROBERT KENNEDY
I do not run for the presidency merely to oppose any man, but to propose new policies. I run because...
ROBERT KENNEDY
When our forbears - yours and mine - came to America, they came because this country promised them s...
ROBERT KENNEDY
Those who challenge the law in one or another of its aspects weaken the whole legal structure of soc...
ROBERT KENNEDY
The fact that free men persist in the search for the truth is the essential difference between Commu...
ROBERT KENNEDY
There has been far too much hypocrisy in the field of civil rights. It is easy enough to give rousin...
ROBERT KENNEDY
It is the right of government to protect the weak; it is the right of the weak to find in their cour...
ROBERT KENNEDY
Now I can go back to being ruthless again.
ROBERT KENNEDY
The poor man looks upon the law as an enemy, not as a friend. For him, the law is always taking some...
ROBERT KENNEDY
We know that we cannot live together without rules which tell us what is right and what is wrong, wh...
ROBERT KENNEDY
I can understand the Chinese Wall: it was built as a defense against marauders. But a wall such as t...
ROBERT KENNEDY
From the first moment of independence, the United States has been dedicated to innovation as a way o...
ROBERT KENNEDY
Desegregation of schools does not automatically transform them into better schools. It is only a ste...
ROBERT KENNEDY
In truth, the world is now a seamless web from which no nation, large or small, young or old, can di...
ROBERT KENNEDY
We will find neither national purpose nor personal satisfaction in a mere continuation of economic p...
ROBERT KENNEDY
But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as a...
ROBERT KENNEDY
The leaders of the world face no greater task than that of avoiding nuclear war. While preserving th...
ROBERT KENNEDY
The most significant civil rights problem is voting. Each citizen's right to vote is fundamental...
ROBERT KENNEDY
People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless, I sha...
ROBERT KENNEDY
The world of sports knows no religious, racial or political differences. Athletes, from whatever lan...
ROBERT KENNEDY
No one needs to tell me about the importance of the free press in a democratic society or about the ...
ROBERT KENNEDY
I believe indeterminate sentencing can be extremely useful, but I also believe that any such system ...
ROBERT KENNEDY
One of the great creative statesmen of our age was Franklin Roosevelt. He was creative precisely bec...
ROBERT KENNEDY
Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.
ROBERT HALF
Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
ROBERT KENNEDY
What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists, is not that they are extreme, but that th...
ROBERT KENNEDY
Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
ROBERT KENNEDY
Elections remind us not only of the rights but the responsibilities of citizenship in a democracy.
ROBERT KENNEDY
When companies get together secretly to fix prices and attempt to eliminate competition, honest busi...
ROBERT KENNEDY
The eradication of racial and religious prejudice in the United States - and in the rest of the worl...
ROBERT KENNEDY
Yesterday, we sought telescopes good enough to see all the planets. Today, we seek vehicles good eno...
ROBERT KENNEDY
I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive...
ROBERT KENNEDY
In the last analysis, our every right is only worth what our lawyer makes it worth.
ROBERT KENNEDY
The Gross National Product includes the destruction of the redwoods and the death of Lake Superior. ...
ROBERT KENNEDY