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Authors: Michael Knox Beran

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19
.âThe effect of
The Greek Way
on Bobby was considerable. Many of the passages of poetry and prose that he quoted in his speeches are to be found in Miss Hamilton's book. Bobby was moved by the lines of Sophocles quoted on page 158 of
The Greek Way
(see Schlesinger,
Robert Kennedy,
p. 618) and was fond of quoting the lines of Aeschylus that appear on page 156 of the book (see ibid., p. 618). In one of his notebooks Bobby copied out these words from
The Greek Way:
“All things are to be called into question; there are no limits set to thought” (see ibid., p. 617; Hamilton,
The Greek Way,
p. 25). The quotation from
Romeo and Juliet
that Bobby used at the 1964 Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City was said by Schlesinger to have been suggested by Jacqueline Kennedy, but Bobby must himself have been familiar with it from his reading of
The Greek Way
(see Schlesinger,
Robert Kennedy,
p. 64; Hamilton,
The Greek Way,
p. 50). The Emerson quotation that Bobby so often usedâabout truth and reposeâis also found in
The Greek Way.
Ibid., p. 36. Both Bobby and Jack quoted Miss Hamilton's rendering of the Greek definition of happiness. See ibid, p. 24.

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