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Tag: Robert F. Kennedy

(1925-1968), US Senator, Attorney General

The primacy of the individual

At the heart of western freedom and democracy is the belief that
the individual man … is the touchstone of value, and all society,
groups, the state, exist for his benefit. Therefore the enlargement
of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and
abiding practice of any western society.

Author Greg RavenPosted on March 21, 2016November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories individualismTags Robert F. Kennedy

“Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides.” — Thomas Paine

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