Richard M. Nixon Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.”
-- Richard M. NixonSource : Farewell Remarks to White House Cabinet and Staff, delivered 9 August 1974
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“Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.”
-- Richard M. NixonSource : Quoted in Deirdre Mullane, Words to Make My Dream Children Live: A Book of African American Quotations (1995)
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“No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.”
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“Our youth can not understand why society chooses to criminalize a behavior with so little visible ill effect or adverse social impact... These young people have jumped the fence and found no cliff. And the disrespect for the possession laws fosters a disrespect for laws and the system in general... On top of this is the distinct impression among the youth that some police may use the marihuana laws to arrest people they don't like for other reasons, whether it be their politics, their hair style or their ethnic background.”
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“We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another - until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.”
-- Richard M. NixonSource : Inaugural Address, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. January 20, 1969.
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“The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word "crisis." One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity.”
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“Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.”
-- Richard M. NixonSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.”
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“My concern today is not with the length of a person's hair but with his conduct.”
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“If an individual wants to be a leader and isn't controversial, that means he never stood for anything.”
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“The Bohemian Grove, which I attend from time to time — it is the most faggy ***** thing you could ever imagine.”
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“The lesson of all history warns us that we should negotiate only when our military superiority is so convincing that we can achieve our objective at the conference table, and deny the aggressor theirs.”
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“We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.”
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“...because there are no local or State boundaries to the problems of our environment, the Federal Government must play an active, positive role. We can and will set standards. We can and will exercise leadership.”
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“Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.”
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“When the President does it, that means that it's not illegal.”
-- Richard M. NixonSource : Television interview by David Frost, 19 May 1977
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“What a strange creature man is that he fouls his own nest.”
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“The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.”
-- Richard M. NixonSource : Nixon, Richard M. (1975). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1973”, p.525, Best Books on
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“You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.”
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“Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.”
-- Richard M. NixonSource : Address to members of administration on leaving office as president, 9 Aug. 1974
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“People are persuaded by reason, but moved by emotion; [the leader] must both persuade them and move them.”
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“The great question of the seventies is, shall we surrender to our surroundings, or shall we make our peace with nature and begin to make reparations for the damage we have done to our air, to our land, and to our water?”
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“The Congress, the Administration and the public all share a profound commitment to the rescue of our natural environment, and the preservation of the Earth as a place both habitable by and hospitable to man.”
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“I have a theory, too, that the best and only answer to a smear or to an honest misunderstanding of the facts is to tell the truth”
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“You cannot win a battle in any arena merely by defending yourself.”
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“I gave 'em a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I had been in their position, I'd have done the same thing.”
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“The true idealist pursues what his heart says is right in a way that his head says will work.”
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“If, when the chips are down, the worlds most powerful nation, the United States of America, acts like a pitiful, helpless giant, the forces of totalitarianism and anarchy will threaten free nations and free institutions throughout the world.”
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“Defeat doesn't finish a man - quit does.”
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“If I had feelings, I probably wouldn’t have even survived.”
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