I thought they'd get one of us, but Jack, after all he'd been through, never worried about it.... I thought it would be me. - Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

All do not develop in the same manner, or at the same pace. Nations, like men, often march to the beat of different drummers, and the precise solutions of the United States can neither be dictated nor transplanted to others. What is important is that all nations must march toward increasing freedom; toward justice for all; toward a society strong and flexible enough to meet the demands of all its own people, and a world of immense and dizzying change.

the Atlantic Charter as a condition for US support of the Allied effort in World War II. The Charter — a heartening emblem of American idealism — required the European allies to relinquish their colonies following the war.

When there were periods of crisis, you stood beside him. When there were periods of happiness, you laughed with him. And when there were periods of sorrow, you comforted him.