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“If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.”
— Richard Nixon
“A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.”
— Richard Nixon
“The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.”
— Richard Nixon
“Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.”
— 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.”
— Richard Nixon
“Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.”
— Richard Nixon
“When the President does it, that means that it's not illegal.”
— Richard Nixon
“Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.”
— Richard Nixon
“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 Nixon
“Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.”
— Richard Nixon
“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 Nixon
“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.”
— Richard Nixon
“Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.”
— Richard Nixon
“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.”
— Richard Nixon
“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.”
— Richard Nixon
“If an individual wants to be a leader and isn't controversial, that means he never stood for anything.”
— Richard Nixon
“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.”
— Richard Nixon
“If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished.”
— Richard Nixon
“You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference.”
— Richard Nixon
“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.”
— Richard Nixon
“I am not a crook.”
— Richard Nixon
“Our chief justices have probably had more profound and lasting influence on their times and on the direction of the nation than most presidents.”
— Richard Nixon
“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 Nixon
“People react to fear, not love; they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.”
— Richard Nixon
“If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.”
— Richard Nixon
“I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get.”
— Richard Nixon
“I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.”
— Richard Nixon
“It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.”
— Richard Nixon
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