Richard M. Nixon Quotes

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Richard M. Nixon

Profession : President

Birth : January 9, 1913

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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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.

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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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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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You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe I'm innocent. If you don't, take my job.

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I let the American people down.

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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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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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Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out.

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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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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

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

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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.

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

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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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