Nothing makes a man feel older than to hear a band coming up the street and not to have the impulse to rush downstairs and out on to the sidewalk.


Robert Benchley

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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
If freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom.
ROBERT KENNEDY
I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
ROBERT KENNEDY
Every American has the duty to obey the law and the right to expect that the law will be enforced.
ROBERT KENNEDY
Everything that makes man's life worthwhile - family, work, education, a place to rear one's...
ROBERT KENNEDY
Our generation was born during the turmoil following the First World War. That war marked the dividi...
ROBERT KENNEDY
Circumstances of crimes vary. So do motives. And so do prospects for rehabilitation. The number of i...
ROBERT KENNEDY
If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of ...
ROBERT KENNEDY
Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community ge...
ROBERT KENNEDY
The Gross National Product measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our lear...
ROBERT KENNEDY
All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don't. And if our t...
ROBERT KENNEDY
We develop the kind of citizens we deserve. If a large number of our children grow up into frustrati...
ROBERT KENNEDY
One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.
ROBERT KENNEDY
When you do well, everybody's after you, and sometimes the motives are legitimate, and sometimes...
ROBERT KRAFT
Envy and jealousy are incurable diseases.
ROBERT KRAFT
We don't mind having sanctions banning us from Europe. We are not Europeans.
ROBERT MUGABE
We are no longer going to ask for the land, but we are going to take it without negotiating.
ROBERT MUGABE
In most recent times, as the West started being hostile to us, we deliberately declared a Look East ...
ROBERT MUGABE
Some people are contriving ways and means of making us collapse.
ROBERT MUGABE