Whenever men take the law ...

Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.
Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.
 Robert Kennedy

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All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.
 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart.
 Thích Nhất Hạnh
Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

Quotes from the same author

All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don't. And if our times are difficult and perplexing, so are they challenging and filled with opportunity.
 Robert Kennedy
The enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and abiding practice of any western society.
 Robert Kennedy
At the heart of that western freedom and democracy is the belief that the individual man...is the touchstone of value, and all society, all groups, and states, exist for that person's benefit. Therefore the enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and the abiding practice of any western society.
 Robert Kennedy
There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?
 Robert Kennedy
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 Kennedy