Quotes by Nixon, Richard M.

"The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire."

Nixon, Richard M. on adversity
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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."

Nixon, Richard M. on defeat
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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."

Nixon, Richard M. on difficulties   

"Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion."

Nixon, Richard M. on elections   

"Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain."

Nixon, Richard M. on failure
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"People react to fear, not love --they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true."

Nixon, Richard M. on fear   

"Yet we can maintain a free society only if we recognize that in a free society no one can win all the time. No one can have his own way all the time, and no one is right all the time."

Nixon, Richard M. on freedom   

"If you think the United States has stood still, who built The largest shopping center in the world?"

Nixon, Richard M. on america
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"For its part, Government will listen. We will strive to listen in new ways -- to the voices of quiet anguish, to voices that speak without words, the voices of the heart, to the injured voices, and the anxious voices, and the voices that have despaired of being heard."

Nixon, Richard M. on government   

"Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them; and then you destroy yourself."

Nixon, Richard M. on hatred
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"Always remember, others may hate you, but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them-and then you destroy yourself."

Nixon, Richard M. on hatred
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"I don't think that a leader can control to any great extent his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction."

Nixon, Richard M. on leadership   

"I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes."

Nixon, Richard M. on medicine   

"This is the greatest week in the history of the world since the Creation, because as a result of what happened in this week, the world is bigger, infinitely."

Nixon, Richard M. on moon   

"I often thought that if there had been a good rap group around in those days, I might have chosen a career in music instead of politics."

Nixon, Richard M. on music   

"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."

Nixon, Richard M. on negotiation   

"The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker."

Nixon, Richard M. on peace   

"A man is not finished when he's defeated; he's finished when he quits."

Nixon, Richard M. on perseverance
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"Nobody is a friend of ours. Let's face it."

Nixon, Richard M. on politics   

"I played by the rules of politics as I found them."

Nixon, Richard M. on politics   

"I am not a crook."

Nixon, Richard M. on politics   

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"The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up."

Nixon, Richard M. on politics   

"If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together."

Nixon, Richard M. on prejudice
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"When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal."

Nixon, Richard M. on president   

"The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man."

Nixon, Richard M. on public   

"A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue."

Nixon, Richard M. on public office   

"It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody."

Nixon, Richard M. on self-image   

"The sky is no longer the limit."

Nixon, Richard M. on space   

"A man who has never lost himself in a cause bigger than himself has missed one of life's mountaintop experiences. Only in losing himself does he find himself. Only then does he discover all the latent strengths he never knew he had and which otherwise would have remained dormant."

Nixon, Richard M. on causes
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"Once one determines that he or she has a mission in life, that's it's not going to be accomplished without a great deal of pain, and that the rewards in the end may not outweigh the pain --if you recognize historically that always happens, then when it comes, you survive it."

Nixon, Richard M. on survival   

"Once you get into this great stream of history you can't get out. You can drown. Or you can be pulled ashore by the tide. But it is awfully hard to get out when you are in the middle of the stream -- if it is intended that you stay there."

Nixon, Richard M. on vocation   

"Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation."

Nixon, Richard M. on conflict
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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."

Nixon, Richard M. on cooperation   

"The easiest period in a crisis situation is actually the battle itself. The most difficult is the period of indecision -- whether to fight or run away. And the most dangerous period is the aftermath. It is then, with all his resources spent and his guard down, that an individual must watch out for dulled reactions and faulty judgment."

Nixon, Richard M. on crisis   

"The average American is just like the child in the family. You give him some responsibility and he is going to amount to something. He is going to do something. If, on the other hand, you make him completely dependent and pamper him and cater to him too much, you are going to make him soft, spoiled and eventually a very weak individual. "

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"In our own lives, let each of us asknot just what government will do for me, but what can I do for myself?"

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"Our idea is to create a situation in which those lands to which we have obligations or in which we have interests, if they are ready to fight a fire, should be able to count on us to furnish the hose and water. "

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"To make it possible for our children, and for our childrens children, to live in a world of peace. To make this country be more than ever a land of opportunityof equal opportunity, full opportunity for every American. To provide jobs for all who can work, and generous help for those who cannot work. To establish a climate of decency and civility, in which each person respects the feelings and the dignity and the God-given rights of his neighbor. To make this a land in which each person can dare to dream, can live his dreamsnot in fear, but in hopeproud of his community, proud of his country, proud of what America has meant to himself and to the world. "

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"Nothing matters more to the future of this Nation than insuring that our young men and women learn to believe in themselves and believe in their dreams, and that they develop this capacitythat you develop this capacity, so that you keep it all of your lives. I believe one of Americas most priceless assets is the idealism which motivates the young people of America. My generation has invested all that it has, not only its love but its hope and faith, in yours. "

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"Red China and Russia are having their differences. But we cannot take too much comfort in the fact that what they are debating about is not how to beat each other but how to beat us. They are simply arguing about what kind of a shovel they should use to dig the grave of the United States. "

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