Bobby Kennedy quote -- relevant in '68 and even more so today

[AngryOldDem]

I just finished reading an excerpt in Vanity Fair of a new book about RFK, "The Last Campaign: Robert F. Kennedy and 82 Days that Inspired America," by Thurston Clarke.

This statement, made by RFK at a rally at Kansas State University in March 1968, holds just as powerful a message for us all today as it did then:

"Our country is in danger: not just from foreign enemies; but above all, from our own misguided policies -- and what they can do to the nation that Thomas Jefferson once said was the last, great hope of mankind. There is a contest on, not for the rule of America but for the heart of America. In these next eight months we are going to decide what this country will stand for -- and what kind of men we are."




No further comments on this are needed nor expected; I just wanted to post some very wise words from a man who I think could be considered a modern-day prophet.

[stillcool]

1. He sure had some good ones...

"Democracy is no easy form of government. Few nations have been able to sustain it. For it requires that we take the chances of freedom; that the liberating play of reason be brought to bear on events filled with passion; that dissent be allowed to make its appeal for acceptance; that men chance error in their search for the truth."-- Robert F. Kennedy

"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

[barnel]

2. I've always like Eisenhower's quotes best

he had a simple and wise way with words

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
Dwight D. Eisenhower


An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwight D. Eisenhower


Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
Dwight D. Eisenhower


I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.
Dwight D. Eisenhower


I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?
Dwight D. Eisenhower

If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.
Dwight D. Eisenhower


We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

[Freedomofspeech]

4. Great quotes, too. Thanks.

[liberal N proud]

3. If only...

If only they hadn't killed him

[barnel]

5. Nixon quote from the same year

'Sock it to me'

Richard Nixon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ItU6tkdF2A