Richard M. Nixon famous quotes

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. Nixon

#Life #Hiking #Mountain

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. Nixon

#Inspirational #Life #Motivational

No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.
-- Richard M. Nixon

#Military #War #Misunderstood

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.
-- Richard M. Nixon

#Marijuana #Hair #Law

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. Nixon

#Learning #Voice #Our Words

The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word "crisis." One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity.
-- Richard M. Nixon

#Positive Thinking #Writing #Opportunity

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. Nixon

#Failure #Men #Doe

If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
-- Richard M. Nixon

#Music #Beautiful #Play

My concern today is not with the length of a person's hair but with his conduct.
-- Richard M. Nixon

#Hair #Today #Length

If an individual wants to be a leader and isn't controversial, that means he never stood for anything.
-- Richard M. Nixon

#Mean #Leader #Want

The Bohemian Grove, which I attend from time to time — it is the most faggy ***** thing you could ever imagine.
-- Richard M. Nixon

#Imagine #Bohemian #Grove

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.
-- Richard M. Nixon

#Military #Lessons #Tables

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.
-- Richard M. Nixon

#4th Of July #Patriotic #Government

...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.
-- Richard M. Nixon

#Exercise #Government #Play

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.
-- Richard M. Nixon

#Fun #Men #Political

When the President does it, that means that it's not illegal.
-- Richard M. Nixon

#Silly #Mean #Political

What a strange creature man is that he fouls his own nest.
-- Richard M. Nixon

#Men #Nests #Strange

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.
-- Richard M. Nixon

#Carpe Diem #Fire #Steel

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.
-- Richard M. Nixon

#Anger #Sunset #Teammate

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. Nixon

#Fear #Hate #Winning

People are persuaded by reason, but moved by emotion; [the leader] must both persuade them and move them.
-- Richard M. Nixon

#Moving #People #Leader

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?
-- Richard M. Nixon

#Land #Air #Water

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.
-- Richard M. Nixon

#Commitment #Profound #Earth

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
-- Richard M. Nixon

#Wisdom #Facts #Answers

You cannot win a battle in any arena merely by defending yourself.
-- Richard M. Nixon

#Winning #Battle #Arena

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.
-- Richard M. Nixon

#Ems #Done #Twisted

The true idealist pursues what his heart says is right in a way that his head says will work.
-- Richard M. Nixon

#Positive #Heart #Way

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.
-- Richard M. Nixon

#Powerful #America #Giants

Defeat doesn't finish a man - quit does.
-- Richard M. Nixon

#Men #Doe #Quitting

If I had feelings, I probably wouldn’t have even survived.
-- Richard M. Nixon

#Feelings

Well, I screwed it up real good, didn't I?
-- Richard M. Nixon

#Real #Wells

Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.
-- Richard M. Nixon

#Finishing #Complaining #Politics

There are times when an abortion is necessary. I know that. When you have a black and a white,
-- Richard M. Nixon

#White #Abortion #Black

I was not lying. I said things that later on seemed to be untrue.
-- Richard M. Nixon

#Lying #Said

The man of thought who will not act is ineffective; the man of action who will not think is dangerous.
-- Richard M. Nixon

#Men #Thinking #Action

Always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty.
-- Richard M. Nixon

#Giving #Discouraged

I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get.
-- Richard M. Nixon

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.
-- Richard M. Nixon

#Pain #Survival #May

Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.
-- Richard M. Nixon

#Moving #Eras #Conflict

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.
-- Richard M. Nixon

#Children #Responsibility #Average

But more than anything else, we have learned that legal assistance for the poor, when properly provided, is one of the most constructive ways to help them help themselves.
-- Richard M. Nixon

#Justice #Way #Helping

I don't know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.
-- Richard M. Nixon

#Sports #Winning #Will To Win

There is no such thing as a nonpolitical speech by a politician.
-- Richard M. Nixon

#Speech #Politician

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

#Love #School #Sunday

If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.
-- Richard M. Nixon

#Winning #Risk #Suffering

I would have made a good pope.
-- Richard M. Nixon

#Witty #Humorous #Profound

I'm not at liberty to discuss the governments knowledge of extraterrestrial UFO's at this time. I am still personally being briefed on the subject!
-- Richard M. Nixon

#Government #Liberty #Ufo

Solutions are not the answer.
-- Richard M. Nixon

#Funny #Stupid #Dumb

You've got to learn to survive a defeat. That's when you develop character.
-- Richard M. Nixon

#Character #Survival #Defeat