4 Robert Kennedy Quotes on Responsibility

Robert Kennedy quotes on responsibility

1. The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.

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32. Each generation makes its own accounting to its children.

64. Since the days of Greece and Rome when the word 'citizen' was a title of honor, we have often seen more emphasis put on the rights of citizenship than on its responsibilities. And today, as never before in the free world, responsibility is the greatest right of citizenship and service is the greatest of freedom's privileges.

70. The future is not a gift: it is an achievement. Every generation helps make its own future. This is the essential challenge of the present.