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I am deeply impressed with the gravity and wisdom with which most federal judges approach the responsibility of sentencing. It is a difficult, soul-searching task at best.

From Robert Kennedy

What is learned on the athletic field is not forgotten, nor are the lessons of character that are forged there ever lost. Consider the contributions in the field of public life, business, law, medicine, and the military of those who actively participated in athletics.

From Robert Kennedy

The world of sports knows no religious, racial or political differences. Athletes, from whatever land they come, speak the same language. The lessons of competition are lessons for life.

From Robert Kennedy

In the last analysis, our every right is only worth what our lawyer makes it worth.

From Robert Kennedy

In government, our chief executives have been lawyers. The great majority of our cabinets and congresses are and have been men trained in the law. They have provided the leadership and the statecraft and the store of strength when it was needed.

From Robert Kennedy

President Kennedy has named two Negroes to District Judgeships and appointed Thurgood Marshall to the United States Court of Appeals. When I came to the Department of Justice, there were only ten Negroes employed as lawyers; not a single Negro served as a United States Attorney - or ever had in the history of the country. That has been changed.

From Robert Kennedy

The fact that free men persist in the search for the truth is the essential difference between Communism and Democracy.

From Robert Kennedy

From the first moment of independence, the United States has been dedicated to innovation as a way of government and a way of life.

From Robert Kennedy

One of the great creative statesmen of our age was Franklin Roosevelt. He was creative precisely because he preferred experiment to ideology.

From Robert Kennedy

Wars of any magnitude release powerful social and economic forces which can change the whole face of the world.

From Robert Kennedy

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