Robert F. Kennedy Quotes

• Too often we excuse those who are willing to build their own lives on the shattered dreams of others.

  Robert F. Kennedy

  Topics in Dream

  Tags in Excuse

• Well, we Kennedys, we eat Rockefellers for breakfast.

  Robert F. Kennedy

  Topics in Uncategorized

• Many times… I had heard the military take positions which, if wrong, had the advantage that no one would be around at the end to know.

  Robert F. Kennedy

  Topics in Uncategorized

• It isn’t the first step that concerns me, but both sides escalating to the fourth or fifth step—and we don’t go to the sixth because there is no one around to do so.

  Robert F. Kennedy

  Topics in Uncategorized

• My thanks to you all—and now it’s on to Chicago, and let’s win there.

  Robert F. Kennedy

  Topics in Uncategorized

• Courage is the most important attribute of a lawyer.

  Robert F. Kennedy

  Topics in Uncategorized

• The sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country.

  Robert F. Kennedy

  Topics in Politics

• Fear not the path of Truth for the lack of People walking on it.

  Robert F. Kennedy

  Topics in Inspirational

• 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.

  Robert F. Kennedy

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Extremism

• Some people see things as they are and say why. I dream things that never were and say why not?”

  George Bernard Shaw

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Build

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

  Robert F. Kennedy

  Topics in Success

  Tags in Achieve, Great, Dare

• You’re happiest while you’re making the greatest contribution.

  Robert F. Kennedy

  Tags in Greatest, Making

• Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.

  Robert F. Kennedy

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Own, Freedom, Law, Men

• 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.

  Robert F. Kennedy

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Extreme, Evil, Dangerous

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

  Robert F. Kennedy

  Topics in Wisdom

  Tags in Tragedy, Live

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

  Robert F. Kennedy

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Prescribe, Propose

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

  Robert F. Kennedy

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Change, Enemies, Nice

• People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless, I shall destroy him.

  Robert F. Kennedy

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Find, Destroy

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

  Robert F. Kennedy

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Against, People, Time, Everything

• Now I can go back to being ruthless again.

  Robert F. Kennedy

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Now, Again

Robert F. Kennedy (32)

Birth:	20th November, 1925
Death:	6th June, 1968
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Politician

About

Robert Francis "Bobby" Kennedy, also referred to by his initials RFK, was an American politician, a Democratic senator from New York, and a noted civil rights activist. An icon of modern American liberalism and member of the Kennedy family, he was a younger brother of President John F. Kennedy and acted as one of his advisors during his presidency.

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