{"author":"Robert Kennedy","author_id":"Robert+Kennedy","total_quotes":49,"quotes":[{"text":"We know that we cannot live together without rules which tell us what is right and what is wrong, what is permitted and what is prohibited. We know that it is law which enables men to live together, that creates order out of chaos. We know that law is the glue that holds civilization together.","author":"Robert Kennedy","tags":["together","law","rules "],"id":4797,"author_id":"Robert+Kennedy"},{"text":"The travail of freedom and justice is not easy, but nothing serious and important in life is easy. The history of humanity has been a continuing struggle against temptation and tyranny - and very little worthwhile has ever been achieved without pain.","author":"Robert Kennedy","tags":["life","freedom","justice "],"id":9126,"author_id":"Robert+Kennedy"},{"text":"The United States was born in revolution and nurtured by struggle. Throughout our history, the American people have befriended and supported all those who seek independence and a better way of life.","author":"Robert Kennedy","tags":["life","history","struggle "],"id":29139,"author_id":"Robert+Kennedy"},{"text":"Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.","author":"Robert Kennedy","tags":["freedom","law","men "],"id":31636,"author_id":"Robert+Kennedy"},{"text":"America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity - the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.","author":"Robert Kennedy","tags":["diversity","america","man "],"id":33016,"author_id":"Robert+Kennedy"},{"text":"The glory of justice and the majesty of law are created not just by the Constitution - nor by the courts - nor by the officers of the law - nor by the lawyers - but by the men and women who constitute our society - who are the protectors of the law as they are themselves protected by the law.","author":"Robert Kennedy","tags":["justice","law","society "],"id":34763,"author_id":"Robert+Kennedy"},{"text":"Automation provides us with wondrous increases of production and information, but does it tell us what to do with the men the machines displace? Modern industry gives us the capacity for unparalleled wealth - but where is our capacity to make that wealth meaningful to the poor of every nation?","author":"Robert Kennedy","tags":["meaningful","wealth "],"id":35209,"author_id":"Robert+Kennedy"},{"text":"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.","author":"Robert Kennedy","tags":["leadership","great "],"id":43468,"author_id":"Robert+Kennedy"},{"text":"It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity, by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task.","author":"Robert Kennedy","tags":["understand","human","see "],"id":73625,"author_id":"Robert+Kennedy"},{"text":"Those who challenge the law in one or another of its aspects weaken the whole legal structure of society. For one man to disobey a law he does not like is to invite others to disobey another law which he may regard as indispensable to his own livelihood - or life.","author":"Robert Kennedy","tags":["life","challenge","law "],"id":84858,"author_id":"Robert+Kennedy"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":49,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}