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Richard Nixon
Quotes by Richard Nixon
Quotes by Richard Nixon
“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 Nixon
“Don't get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.”
Richard Nixon
“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.”
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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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“Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.”
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“When the President does it, that means that it's not illegal.”
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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.”
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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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“Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.”
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“A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.”
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“The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.”
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“Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.”
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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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“In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.”
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“Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.”
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“Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do.”
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“The Cold War isn't thawing; it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn't sleeping; it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting.”
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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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“Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.”
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“If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished.”
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“You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference.”
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“Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top - or on the bottom. I guess I'm something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things... Life is one crisis after another.”
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“I am not a crook.”
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“Our chief justices have probably had more profound and lasting influence on their times and on the direction of the nation than most presidents.”
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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.”
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“People react to fear, not love; they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.”
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“If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.”
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“I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get.”
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“I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.”
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“It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.”
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