Robert Kennedy Quotes
Some men see things as they are and say “Why?” I dream things that never were and say, “Why not?”
This was one of Robert Kennedy’s favorite quotes. Though his version is unique, the original idea comes from the book, Back to Methuselah. See George Bernard Shaw. {642128} The great American Scientist, J. Robert Oppenheimer, had expressed a variant of the idea in {639985} .
Robert F. Kennedy, 1925-1968, U.S. Senator (Democrat, NY), U.S. Attorney General, Attributed by his brother Edward at Robert’s funeral, 1968
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This was a play on the quotation by Robert Kennedy: {610136}.
The Scientific Project that developed the Atomic Bomb. See Robert F. Kennedy {610136} for a later variant of this quotation.
Robert Francis Kennedy, also referred to by his initials RFK or by the nickname Bobby, was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 64th United States Attorney General from January 1961 to September 1964, and as a U.S. Senator from New York from January 1965 until his assassination in June 1968. He was, like his brothers John and Edward, a prominent member of the Democratic Party and has come to be viewed by some historians as an icon of modern American liberalism.
