Top 5 Ted Kennedy Quotes

By Yosef Solomon on August 26th, 2009

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At the age of 77, Senator Edward “Ted” Kennedy passed away last night at his home in Massachusetts. The only remaining brother from the Kennedy family and current Senator of Massachusetts, Kennedy succumbed to complications from a brain tumor. After experiencing his second seizure on January 20th, the day of Obama’s inauguration, Kennedy’s health looked brim until a successful surgery had him out and about in no time. Known as the “Liberal Lion” Kennedy was more than just a political figure. Through all the tragedy’s and setbacks experienced in his lifetime, he arose from them stronger and more determined. As a salute to the late Ted Kennedy, Manolith decided to spotlight his 5 most memorable quotes:

5) “Frankly, I don’t mind not being president. I just mind that someone else is.”
- At the Washington Gridiron Club dinner

4) “This November the torch will be passed again to a new generation of Americans. So, with Barack Obama and for you and for me, our country will be committed to his cause. The work begins anew. The hope rises again. And the dream lives on.”
- Endorsing Barack Obama on his run for Presidency of the United States of Amerca.

3) “The answer is to rely on youth. Not a time of life but a state of mind, a temper of the will, a quality of imagination, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease.”
- Eulogy at his brother Robert Kennedy’s funeral.

2) “My brother need not be idealised or enlarged in death beyond what he was in life, to be remembered as a good and decent man, who saw wrong and tried to right it, saw suffering and tried to heal it, saw war and tried to stop it”
- Eulogy at his brother Robert Kennedy’s funeral.

1) “For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dream shall never die.”
-Addressing his supporters after his loss in the 1980 Democratic Nomination.