"Few will have the greatness to bend history itself but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation."
-Robert Kennedy
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"Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.“
-Robert Kennedy
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"Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live."
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"One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time."
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"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."
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"Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes."
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"Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes."
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"You do have to change things as warfare changes."
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"My kid could get a bad X-ray and I could get a call from the doctor saying I have something growing in my bum and that would change my perspective on everything instantaneously, on what is and what is not important."
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"What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A change of government? The ousting of the old guard and its replacement by the new? History, more often than not, shows that hopes raised by such events are often dashed, sooner rather than later."
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"Europe is dying. That is one of the unsayable truths of our time. We are undergoing the moral equivalent of climate change and no one is talking about it."
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"Most of what needs to be changed in the euro zone can be done without treaty changes. The demand for treaty change is as political as it is legal and I don't think it's going to happen soon."
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"Much can and must be done by governments, but they cannot of themselves change lives."
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