Each Moment In History Is A Fleeting Time, Precious And Unique. But Some Stand Out As Moments Of Beginning, In Which Courses Are Set That Shape Decades Or Centuries.

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Each Moment In History

Richard M. Nixon

Each Moment In History Is A Fleeting Time, Precious And Unique. But Some Stand Out As Moments Of Beginning, In Which Courses Are Set That Shape Decades Or Centuries.

Topic

Unique

Fleeting

Shapes

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Never Has So Much Military And Economic And Diplomatic Power Been Used So Ineffectively, And If After All Of This Time, And All Of This Sacrifice, And All Of This Support, There Is Still No End In Sight, Then I Say The Time Has Come For The American People To Turn To New Leadership Not Tied To The Mistakes And Policies Of The Past.

Military

War

Mistake

We Must Adopt Reforms Which Will Expand The Range Of Opportunities For All Americans. We Can Fulfill The American Dream Only When Each Person Has A Fair Chance To Fulfill His Own Dreams. This Means Equal Voting Rights, Equal Employment Opportunity And New Opportunities For Expanded Ownership, Because In Order To Be Secure In Their Human Rights, People Need Access To Property Rights.

Wisdom

Dream

Mean

Why Would Anyone Want To Be President Today? The Answer Is Not One Of Glory, Or Fame; Today The Burdens Of The Office Outweigh Its Privileges. Its Not Because The Presidency Offers A Chance To Be Somebody, But Because It Offers A Chance To Do Something.

Office

President

Answers

'environment' Is Not An Abstract Concern, Or Simply A Matter Of Aesthetics, Or Of Personal Taste - Although It Can And Should Involve These As Well. Man Is Shaped To A Great Extent By His Surroundings. Our Physical Nature, Our Mental Health, Our Culture And Institutions, Our Opportunities For Challenge And Fulfillment, Our Very Survival - All Of These Are Directly Related To And Affected By The Environment In Which We Live. They Depend Upon The Continued Healthy Functioning Of The Natural Systems Of The Earth.

Men

Opportunity

Challenges

With All The Power That A President Has, The Most Important Thing To Bear In Mind Is This: You Must Not Give Power To A Man Unless, Above Everything Else, He Has Character. Character Is The Most Important Qualification The President Of The United States Can Have.

Leadership

Character

Men

You Can't Depend On The Man Who Made The Mess To Clean It Up.

Men

Clean

He Man

So You Are Lean And Mean And Resourceful And You Continue To Walk On The Edge Of The Precipice Because Over The Years You Have Become Fascinated By How Close You Can Walk Without Losing Your Balance.

Mean

Years

Balance

Voters Quickly Forget What A Man Says.

Men

Voters

Forget

By The Time You Get Dressed, Drive Out There, Play 18 Holes And Come Home, You've Blown Seven Hours. There Are Better Things You Can Do With Your Time.

Home

Play

Hours

Any Culture Which Can Put A Man On The Moon Is Capable Of Gathering All The Nations Of The Earth In Peace, Justice And Concord.

Moon

Men

Justice

Watergate Had Become The Center Of The Media's Universe, And During The Remaining Year Of My Presidency The Media Tried To Force Everything Else To Revolve Around It.

Media

Years

Force

By Taking This Action, I Hope That I Will Have Hastened The Start Of The Healing.

Healing

Patriotic

Action

As You Know, The Separation Of Church And State Is Not Subject To Discussion Or Alteration. Under Our Constitution No Church Or Religion Can Be Supported By The U.s. Government. We Maintain Freedom Of Religion So That An American Can Either Worship In The Church Of His Choice Or Choose To Go To No Church At All.

Government

Choices

Presidential

People React To Fear, Not Love; They Don't Teach That In Sunday School, But It's True.

Love

School

Sunday

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.

Running

Fighting

Battle

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.

Heart

Government

Voice

It Is Essential That We Take Steps To Prevent Chemical Substances From Becoming Environmental Hazards. Unless We Develop Better Methods To Assure Adequate Testing Of Chemicals, We Will Be Inviting The Environmental Crisis Of The Future.

Environmental

Essentials

Hazards

Don't Try To Take On A New Personality; It Doesn't Work.

Personality

Trying

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.

Anger

Sunset

Discipline

A Public Man Must Never Forget That He Loses His Usefulness When He As An Individual, Rather Than His Policy, Becomes The Issue.

Men

Issues

Never Forget

I Don't Know A Lot About Politics, But I Know A Lot About Baseball.

Baseball

Knows

Millions Who Endure Poverty And Bad Government Can Now Know What They Are Missing. To See How The Other Half Lives All They Have To Do Is Switch On Their Television Sets.

Government

Missing

Television

Capitalism Works Better Than It Sounds, While Socialism Sounds Better Than It Works.

Sound

Socialism

Capitalism

I Don't Know Anything That Builds The Will To Win Better Than Competitive Sports.

Sports

Winning

Will To Win

Peace Demands More, Not Less, From A People. Peace Lacks The Clarity Of Purpose And The Cadence Of War. War Is Scripted: Peace Is Improvisation.

Peace

War

Clarity Of Purpose

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?

Air

Land

Water

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.

Patriotic

Men

Doe

I'm Not A Crook. I've Earned Everything I've Got.

Crooks

We Must Never Forget That If The War In Vietnam Is Lost ... The Right Of Free Speech Will Be Extinguished Throughout The World.

War

Vietnam

World

To A Crisis Of The Spirit, We Need An Answer Of The Spirit. To Find That Answer, We Need Only Look Within Ourselves. When We Listen To The Better Angels Of Our Nature, We Find That They Celebrate The Simple Things, The Basic Things--such As Goodness, Decency, Love, Kindness. Greatness Comes In Simple Trappings.

Kindness

Angel

Simple

There Are Some People, You Know, They Think The Way To Be A Big Man Is To Shout And Stomp And Raise Hell-and Then Nothing Ever Really Happens. I'm Not Like That I Never Shoot Blanks.

Technology

Men

Thinking

Bring Us Together Again.

Together Again

Presidential

Together

The Answer To Many Of The Domestic Problems We Face Is Not Higher Taxes And More Spending. It Is Less Waste, More Results And Greater Freedom For The Individual American To Earn A Rightful Place In His Own Community - And For States And Localities To Address Their Own Needs In Their Own Ways, In The Light Of Their Own Priorities.

Light

Community

Priorities

I Didn't Do Anything Wrong And I Promise To Never Do It Again.

Promise

I Promise

Baseball Without Fans Is Like Jayne Mansfield Without A Sweater. Hang On, That Can Be Taken Two Ways.

Baseball

Taken

Two

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.

Religious

War

Reality

Any Change Is Resisted Because Bureaucrats Have A Vested Interest In The Chaos In Which They Exist.

Change

Chaos

Bureaucracy

A Riot Is A Spontaneous Outburst. A War Is Subject To Advance Planning.

Military

War

Planning

There Are Some Instances Where You May Be Ahead Of Us, For Example, In The Development Of The Thrust Of Your Rockets For The Investigation Of Outer Space; There May Be Some Instances In Which We Are Ahead Of You--in Color Television, For Instance.

Color

Space

Example

With Those Who Are Willing To Join, Let Us Cooperate To Reduce The Burden Of Arms, To Strengthen The Structure Of Peace, To Lift Up The Poor And The Hungry.

Arms

Hungry

Poor

Sure There Are Dishonest Men In Local Government. But There Are Dishonest Men In National Government Too.

Fun

Men

Political

As Long As I'm Sitting In The Chair, There's Not Going To Be Any Jew Appointed To That Court. No Jew Can Be Right On The Criminal-law Issue.

Law

Issues

Long

Those Who Hate Us Only Win If We Hate Them Back

Hate

Winning

Ifs

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.

Children

Responsibility

Average

The Chinese Use Two Brush Strokes To Write The Word "crisis." One Brush Stroke Stands For Danger; The Other For Opportunity.

Writing

Positive Thinking

Opportunity

I'm Not Going To Be The First American President To Lose A War.

War

President

Vietnam

To Me, The Most Unhappy People In The World Are The People ... In Palm Beach- Going To Parties Every Night. Playing Golf Every Afternoon, Then Bridge. [they Have] No Purpose.

Beach

Party

Golf

If In Order To Avoid Further Communist Expansion In Asia And Particularly In Indo-china, If In Order To Avoid It We Must Take The Risk By Putting American Boys In, I Believe That The Executive Branch Of The Government Has To Take The Politically Unpopular Position Of Facing Up To It And Doing It, And I Personally Would Support Such A Decision.

War

Believe

Boys

Italy Hasn't Had A Government Since Mussolini.

Travel

Home

Government

You Have To Face The Fact That The Whole Problem Is Really The Blacks. The Key Is To Devise A System That Recognizes This All While Not Appearing To.

Keys

Faces

Facts

Our Souls Speak From Across The Miles, Intertwined, You And I.

Friendship

Soul

Speak

I Know You Heard What You Thought I Said, But What I Said Isn't What I Meant.

Said

Heard

Knows

I Have Impeached Myself By Resigning.

Failure

Political

Politics

The Time Has Come For Us To Draw The Line. The Time Has Come For The Responsible Leaders Of Both Political Parties To Take A Stand Against Overgrown Government And For The American Taxpayer.

Party

Government

Leader

Baseball Is Great Because Anything Can Happen Through The Ninth Inning.

Baseball

Anything Can Happen

Happens

Law Enforcement Officers Should Use Only The Minimum Force Necessary In Dealing With Disorders When They Arise. A Human Life-the Life Of A Student, Soldier, Or Police Officer-is A Precious Thing, And The Taking Of A Life Can Be Justified Only As A Necessary And Last Resort.

Law

Police

Soldier

Screw State! State's Always On The Side Of The Blacks. The Hell With Them!

Sides

Hell

States

Violence Or The Threat Of Violence [must] Never Be Permitted To Influence The Actions Or Judgments Of The University Community. Once It Does, The Community, Almost By Definition, Ceases To Be A University. It Is For This Reason That From Time Immemorial Expulsion Has Been The Primary Instrument Of University Discipline.

Time

Men

Discipline

Those Who Hate You Don't Win Unless You Hate Them Back.

Hate

Winning

Hatred

I'm Not For Women, Frankly, In Any Job. I Don't Want Any Of Them Around. Thank God We Don't Have Any In The Cabinet.

Jobs

Thank God

Want

I Can See Clearly Now... That I Was Wrong In Not Acting More Decisively And More Forthrightly In Dealing With Watergate.

History

Acting

Watergate

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.

Fighting

Fire

Land

Because The Public Lands Belong To All Americans, This 1872 Mining Act Should Be Repealed.

Land

Conservative

Should

Economic Power Is Not The Same As Strength Of National Character. Our Country May Be Rich In Goods, But We Are Poor In Spirit.

Country

Character

Power

I Had Never Expected That The China Initiative Would Come To Fruition In The Form Of A Ping-pong Team.

Team

Ping Pong

Fruition

While Technically I Did Not Commit A Crime, An Impeachable Offense... These Are Legalisms, As Far As The Handling Of This Matter Is Concerned; It Was So Botched Up, I Made So Many Bad Judgments. The Worst Ones, Mistakes Of The Heart, Rather Than The Head. But Let Me Say, A Man In That Top Job - He's Got To Have A Heart, But His Head Must Always Rule His Heart.

Jobs

Mistake

Heart

If I Had Feelings, I Probably Wouldn’t Have Even Survived.

Feelings

Ifs

Survived

But It's Not Just The Ratty Part Of Town. The Upper Class In San Francisco Is That Way. The Bohemian Grove, Which I Attend From Time To Time - It Is The Most Faggy Goddamned Thing You Could Ever Imagine, With That San Francisco Crowd. I Can't Shake Hands With Anybody From San Francisco.

Hands

Class

San Francisco

The Developing Coherence Of Asian Regional Thinking Is Reflected In A Disposition To Consider Problems And Loyalties In Regional Terms, And To Evolve Regional Approaches To Development Needs And To The Evolution Of A New World Order.

Loyalty

Thinking

Nwo

Writing Is The Toughest Thing I've Ever Done.

Writing

Done

I'm Not A Lovable Man.

Men

Lovable

I Always Remember That Whatever I Have Done In The Past Or May Do In The Future, Duke University Is Responsible In One Way Or Another.

Past

Done

May

Idealism Without Realism Is Impotent. Realism Without Idealism Is Immoral.

Realism

Idealism

Immoral

Let Us Build Bridges, My Friends, Build Bridges To Human Dignity Across That Gulf That Separates Black America From White America.

Bridges

White

America

The Language Of Politics Is Poetry, Not Prose. Jackson Is Poetry. Cuomo Is Poetry. Dukakis Is A Word Processor.

Language

Prose

Processors

The Jews Are Irreligious, Atheistic, Immoral Bunch Of Bastards.

Bunch

Jew

Immoral

When The Strongest Nation In The World Can Be Tied Up For Years In A War With No End In Sight, When The Richest Nation In The World Can't Manage Its Own Economy, When The Nation With The Greatest Tradition Of The Rule Of Law Is Plagued By Unprecedented Lawlessness, And When The President Of The United States Cannot Travel Abroad Or To Any Major City At Home Without Fear Of A Hostile Demonstration - Then It's Time For New Leadership For The United States Of America.

Leadership

War

Home

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.

Love

Dream

Believe

I Believe In The Battle-whether It's The Battle Of A Campaign Or The Battle Of This Office, Which Is A Continuing Battle.

Believe

Office

Battle

Success Is Not A Harbor But A Voyage With Its Own Perils To The Spirit. The Game Of Life Is To Come Up A Winner, To Be A Success, Or To Achieve What We Set Out To Do.

Congratulations

Games

Voyages

I See The Face Of A Child. He Lives In A Great City. He Is Black. Or He Is White. He Is Mexican, Italian, Polish. None Of That Matters. What Matters, He's An American Child.

Children

Italian

What Matters

Look, People Get Drunk ... People Chase Girls. And The Point Is, It's A Hell Of A Lot Better For Them To Get Drunk Than To Take Drugs. It's Better To Chase Girls Than Boys.

Girl

Boys

People

I Really Believe Life Is Simple. It's All The Other People That Make Things Complicated.

Believe

Simple

People

The Bastards Have Never Been Bombed Like They're Going To Be Bombed This Time.

Military

People Have Got To Know Whether Or Not Their President Is A Crook. Well, I'm Not A Crook. I Earned Everything I've Got.

People

President

Crooks

You Know Very Well That Whether You Are On Page One Or Page Thirty Depends On Whether They Fear You. It's As Simple As That.

Simple

Presidential

Pages

This Is A Great Day For France!

Funny

Dumb

Great Day

It Is Sad That It Was Necessary That Santa Barbara Should Be The Example That Had To Bring It To The Attention Of The American People. What Is Involved Is The Use Of Our Resources Of The Sea And Of The Land In A More Effective Way And With More Concern For Preserving The Beauty And The Natural Resources That Are So Important To Any Kind Of Society That We Want For The Future. The Santa Barbara Incident Has Frankly Touched The Conscience Of The American People.

Santa Barbara

Sea

Land

The Only Way To Achieve A Practical, Livable Peace In A World Of Competing Nations Is To Take The Profit Out Of War.

War

Democracy

World

The Peace We Seek In The World Is Not The Flimsy Peace Which Is Merely An Interlude Between Wars, But A Peace Which Can Endure For Generations To Come. It Is Important That We Understand Both The Necessity And The Limitations Of America's Role In Maintaining That Peace. Unless We In America Work To Preserve The Peace, There Will Be No Peace. Unless We In America Work To Preserve Freedom, There Will Be No Freedom.

Peace

War

America

Publicly, We Say One Thing....actually, We Do Another.

One Thing

[the Public Lands Represent] In A Sense, The Breathing Space Of The Nation.

Breathing Space

Land

Nations

It Has Been Said That Canada Is Bounded 'on The North By Gold, On The West By The East, On The East By History - And On The South By Friends'.* We Hope That Will Always Be The Case And We Hope It Will Be The Case Not Only With Respect To The United States, Your Immediate Neighbor To The South, But With Respect To All Your Southern Neighbors - And Ours - Who Are Bound By The Great Forces Of Geography And History Which Are Distinctive To The New World.

Geography And History

Southern

Presidential

The Memory Of That Scene For Me Is Like A Frame Of Film Forever Frozen At That Moment: The Red Carpet, The Green Lawn, The White House, The Leaden Sky. The New President And His First Lady.

Memories

Sky

White

If You Think The United States Has Stood Still, Who Built The Largest Shopping Center In The World?

Humorous

Thinking

Shopping

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.

Powerful

America

United States

There Is An International Disease Which Feeds On The Notion That If You Have A Cause To Defend, You Can Use Any Means To Further Your Cause, Since The End Justifies The Means. As An International Community, We Must Oppose This Notion, Whether It Be In Canada, In The United States, Or Anywhere Else. No Cause Justifies Violence As Long As The System Provides For Change By Peaceful Means.

Mean

Long

Community

The Pakistanis Are Straightforward And Sometimes Extremely Stupid. The Indians Are More Devious, Sometimes So Smart That We Fall For Their Line.

Smart

Stupid

Fall

Failure Isn't Falling Down. Failure Is Not Getting Up After You Have Fallen Down.

Fall

Falling Down

Fallen

It I Talked About Watergate, I Was Described As Struggling To Free Myself From The Morass. If I Did Not Talk About Watergate, I Was Accused Of Being Out Of Touch With Reality.

Struggle

Reality

Swag

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.

Time

Freedom

Winning

Never Forget, The Press Is The Enemy. The Establishment Is The Enemy. The Professors Are The Enemy. Professors Are The Enemy. Write That On A Blackboard 100 Times And Never Forget It.

Writing

Enemy

Never Forget

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.

Rap

Careers

Groups

It's A Piece Of Cake Until You Get To The Top. You Find You Can't Stop Playing The Game The Way You've Always Played It.

Games

Cake

Pieces

Scrubbing Floors And Emptying Bedpans Has As Much Dignity As The Presidency.

Politics

Dignity

Presidency

Mr. Stevenson Has A Degree Alright-a Phd From The Acheson College Of Cowardly Communist Containment.

War

College

Degrees

The Recent Upsurge Of Public Concern Over Environmental Questions Reflects A Belated Recognition That Man Has Been Too Cavalier In His Relations With Nature. Unless We Arrest The Depredations That Have Been Inflicted So Carelessly On Our Natural Systems-which Exist In An Intricate Set Of Balances-we Face The Prospect Of Ecological Disaster.

Men

Balance

Faces

A President Can Ask For Reconciliation In The Racial Conflict That Divides Americans. But Reconciliation Comes Only From The Hearts Of People.

Heart

People

President

When I Retire I'm Going To Spend My Evenings By The Fireplace Going Through Those Boxes. There Are Things In There That Ought To Be Burned.

Retirement

Evening

Boxes

As Our Cities And Suburbs Relentlessly Expand, Those Priceless Open Spaces Needed For Recreation Areas Accessible To Their People Are Swallowed Up-often Forever. Unless We Preserve These Spaces While They Are Still Available, We Will Have None To Preserve.

Cities

Space

People

Always Give Your Best. Never Get Discouraged. Never Be Petty.

Giving

Discouraged

Great Presidents

Look At The Justice Department, It's Full Of Jews...the Lawyers In Government Are Damn Jews.

Art

Men

Law

In A Flat Choice Between Smoke And Jobs, We're For Jobs... But Just Keep Me Out Of Trouble On Environmental Issues.

Jobs

Issues

Choices

Let Us Build A Structure Of Peace In The World In Which The Weak Are As Safe As The Strong In Which Each Respects The Right Of The Other To Live By A Different System In Which Those Who Would Influence Others Will Do So By The Strength Of Their Ideas, And Not By The Force Of Their Arms. Let Us Accept That High Responsibility Not As A Burden, But Gladly Gladly Because The Chance To Build Such A Peace Is The Noblest Endeavor In Which A Nation Can Engage.

Peace

Strong

Responsibility

I Have Earned Every Cent. And In All Of My Years Of Public Life I Have Never Obstructed Justice.

Years

Justice

Cents

Our Peaceful Borders And Our Peaceful History Are Important Symbols, To Be Sure. What They Symbolize, However, Is The Spirit Of Respect And Restraint Which Allow Us To Cooperate, Despite Our Differences, In Way Which Help Us Both.

Differences

Presidential

Peaceful

There Is No Such Thing As A Nonpolitical Speech By A Politician.

Speech

Politician

If An Individual Wants To Be A Leader And Isn't Controversial, That Means He Never Stood For Anything.

Mean

Leader

Want

The Successful Leader Does Not Talk Down To People. He Lifts Them Up.

Successful

People

Leader

I Took A Look Around The Office. ... I Walked Out And Closed The Door Behind Me. I Knew That I Would Not Be Back There Again." (on Leaving The Executive Office Building)

Doors

Office

Leaving

The Ultimate Test Of A Nation's Character Is Not How It Responds To Adversity In War But How It Meets The Challenge Of Peace.

War

Character

Adversity

I Would Have Made A Good Pope.

Witty

Humorous

Profound

President Johnson And I Have A Lot In Common. We Were Both Born In Small Towns And We're Both Fortunate In The Fact That We Think We Married Above Ourselves.

Thinking

President

Towns

Any Nation That Decides The Only Way To Achieve Peace Is Through Peaceful Means Is A Nation That Will Soon Be A Piece Of Another Nation.

Peace

Mean

Pieces

Because Of The Realities Of Human Nature, Perfect Peace Is Achieved In Two Places Only: In The Grave And At The Typewriter.

Peace

Reality

Typewriters

I Also Believe That Academic Freedom Should Protect The Right Of A Professor Or Student To Advocate Marxism, Socialism, Communism, Or Any Other Minority Viewpoint - No Matter How Distasteful To The Majority, Provided...

Believe

Academic Freedom

Viewpoints

If We Take The Route Of The Permanent Handout, The American Character Will Itself Be Impoverished.

Character

Handouts

Routes

The Soviet Union Began By Banishing God. The United States Began As A Community Of People Who Wanted To Worship God As They Chose. . . Man Does Not Live By Bread Alone. Those In The United States Whose Desire To Create A Strictly Secular Society Is As Strong As Lenin's Was Should Study This Cold War Lesson Closely. Communism Was Defeated By An Alliance Spearheaded By 'one Nation Under God.'

Strong

War

Men

Finishing Second In The Olympics Gets You Silver. Finishing Second In Politics Gets You Oblivion.

Finishing

Complaining

Politics

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.

4th Of July

Patriotic

Government

Communism Starts With The Proposition That There Are No Universal Truths Or General Truths Of Human Nature.

Evil

Human Nature

Communism

The Only Time In The History Of The World That We Have Had Any Extended Periods Of Peace Is When There Has Been A Balance Of Power. It Is When One Nation Becomes Infinitely More Powerful In Relation To Its Potential Competitors That The Danger Of War Arises.

Powerful

War

Balance

The Sky Is No Longer The Limit.

Sky

Limits

Tell Them To Send Everything That Can Fly.

If I Had My Life To Live Over, I Would Have Liked To Have Ended Up As A Sportswriter.

Inspirational

Ifs

Unpredictability Is The Greatest Asset A Leader Can Have.

Leader

Assets

Unpredictability

Yes, I Wish I'd Done It Sooner.

War

Wish

Done

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!

Government

Liberty

Ufo

It Is In That Spirit, The Spirit Of '76, That I Ask You To Rise And Join Me In A Toast To Chairman Mao, To Premier Chou, To The People Of Our Two Countries, And To The Hope Of Our Children That Peace And Harmony Can Be The Legacy Of Our Generation To Theirs.

Country

Children

War

The Finest Steel Has To Go Through The Hottest Fire.

Carpe Diem

Fire

Steel

We Do Not Learn By Inference And Deduction And The Application Of Mathematics To Philosophy, But By Direct Intercourse And Sympathy.

Sympathy

Philosophy

Sensual

The Three Most Difficult Words To Speak Are, "i Was Wrong."

Responsibility

Three

Speak

I Hereby Resign This Office Of President Of The United States.

Office

President

United States

During The Prince's Visit, King Timahoe Will Be Referred To Only As Timahoe, Since It Would Be Inappropriate For The Prince To Be Outranked By A Dog.

Dog

Kings

Would Be

They Say, "gee, You Look Great." That Means They Thought You Looked Like Hell Before.

Mean

Looks

Hell

In Our Own Lives, Let Each Of Us Ask — Not Just What Will Government Do For Me, But What Can I Do For Myself? In The Challenges We Face Together, Let Each Of Us Ask —not Just How Can Government Help, But How Can I Help?

Government

When The President Does It, That Means That It's Not Illegal.

Silly

Mean

Political

Lyndon Johnson Rose Above The Doubt And Fear To Hold This Nation On Course Until We Rediscovered Our Faith In Ourselves.

Rose

Doubt

Johnson

The 1970s Must Be The Years When America Pays Its Debt To The Past By Reclaiming The Purity Of Its Air, Its Waters, And Our Living Environment. It Is Literally Now Or Never.

Past

Air

Years

I Let The American People Down, And I Have To Carry That Burden For The Rest Of My Life. My Political Life Is Over. I Will Never Again Have An Opportunity To Serve In Any Official Position. Maybe I Can Give A Little Advice From Time To Time.

Opportunity

People

Giving

A Politician Knows That His Friends Are Not Always His Allies, And That His Adversaries Are Not Always His Enemies.

Enemy

Allies

Politician

There Are Times When An Abortion Is Necessary. I Know That. When You Have A Black And A White.

White

Abortion

Black

What Was Watergate? A Little Bugging!

Littles

Watergate

The Greatest Honor History Can Bestow Is The Title Of Peacemaker.

Peace

Patriotic

Honor

Your Mind Must Always Go, Even While You're Shaking Hands And Going Through All The Maneuvers. I Developed The Ability Long Ago To Do One Thing While Thinking About Another.

Thinking

Long Ago

Hands

Our Chief Justices Have Probably Had More Profound And Lasting Influence On Their Times And On The Direction Of The Nation Than Most Presidents.

Profound

Justice

President

Well, I'm Not A Crook.

Crooks

Wells

I Never Leave A Game Before The Last Pitch, Because In Baseball, As In Life And Especially Politics, You Never Know What Will Happen.

Baseball

Games

Lasts

We Will Establish A New System That Makes High-quality Health Care Available To Every American In A Dignified Manner And At A Price He Can Afford.

Quality

Care

Available

An Important Measure Of Our True Commitment To Environmental Quality Is Our Dedication To Protecting The Wilderness And Its Inhabitants. We Must Recognize Their Ecological Significance And Preserve Them As Sources Of Inspiration And Education. And We Need Them As Places Of Quiet Refuge And Reflection.

Inspiration

Commitment

Reflection

I Can Take It. The Tougher It Gets, The Cooler I Get.

I Can

Don't Get The Impression That You Arouse My Anger. You See, One Can Only Be Angry With Those He Respects.

Anger

Impression

Angry

America Will Not Tolerate Being Pushed Around By Anybody, Anyplace.

America

Tolerate

Let Us Move From The Era Of Confrontation To The Era Of Negotiation.

Moving

Eras

Conflict

I Let The American People Down.

People

Television Is To News As Bumperstickers Are To Philosophy.

Philosophy

Media

News

Let Us Remember That The Main Purpose Of American Aid Is Not To Help Other Nations, But To Help Ourselves.

Helping Others

Purpose

Remember

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.

Believe

Passion

Garden

I Seriously Doubt If We Will Ever Have Another War. This Is Probably The Very Last One.

War

Doubt

Lasts

I Don't Mind The Homosexuality. I Understand It. Nevertheless, Goddamn, I Don't Think You Glorify It On Public Television, Homosexuality, Even More Than You Glorify Whores. We All Know We Have Weaknesses. But, Goddammit, What Do You Think That Does To Kids? You Know What Happened To The Greeks! Homosexuality Destroyed Them. Sure, Aristotle Was A Homo. We All Know That. So Was Socrates.

Kids

Thinking

Greek

Rarely Have So Many People Been So Wrong About So Much.

Men

People

The Great Silent Majority.

Presidential

Majority

Silent

Idealism Without Pragmatism Is Impotent. Pragmatism Without Idealism Is Meaningless. The Key To Effective Leadership Is Pragmatic Idealism.

Keys

Idealism

Pragmatism

Castro Couldn't Even Go To The Bathroom Unless The Soviet Union Put The Nickel In The Toilet.

Toilets

Unions

Bathroom

Each Moment In History Is A Fleeting Time, Precious And Unique. But Some Stand Out As Moments Of Beginning, In Which Courses Are Set That Shape Decades Or Centuries.

Unique

Fleeting

Shapes

Defeat Doesn't Finish A Man, Quit Does. A Man Is Not Finished When He's Defeated. He's Finished When He Quits.

Failure

Men

Presidential

The Color Of Communism Was Not Red But Gray.

Color

Red

Communism

[peter] Drucker Says That Modern Government Can Do Only Two Things Well: Wage War And Inflate The Currency. Its The Aim Of My Administration To Prove Mr Drucker Wrong.

War

Government

Two

I Reject The Cynical View That Politics Is A Dirty Business.

Dirty

Naughty

Views

The Man Of Thought Who Will Not Act Is Ineffective; The Man Of Action Who Will Not Think Is Dangerous.

Men

Thinking

Action

If The President Does It, It Can't Be Illegal.

President

Doe

Illegal

In Ancient Days, Men Looked At Stars And Saw Their Heroes In The Constellations. In Modern Times, We Do Much The Same, But Our Heroes Are Epic Men Of Flesh And Blood.

Stars

Hero

Epic

We Should Set Goals Within The Limits Of Our Resources While Working To The Limits Of Our Powers.

Goal

Limits

Resources

I Knew If I Continued To Look Around It Would Be Difficult For Me To Contain My Own Emotions. So I Turned Away From The Red Eyes Of The Crowd And Looked Only At The Red Eye Of The Camera, Talking To All The Nation.

Eye

Talking

Cameras

I Would Rather Be A One-term President And Do What I Believe Is Right Than To Be A Two-term President At The Cost Of Seeing America Become A Second-race Power And To See This Nation Accept The First Defeat In Its Proud 190-year History.

Believe

Power

Race

The Mark Of A True Politician Is That He Is Never At A Loss For Words Because He Is Always Half-expecting To Be Asked To Make A Speech.

Loss

Half

Speech

If I Were To Make Public These Tapes, Containing Blunt And Candid Remarks On Many Different Subjects, The Confidentiality Of The Office Of The President Would Always Be Suspect.

Stupid

Office

President

As We Work To Expand Our Supplies Of Energy, We Should Also Recognize That We Must Balance Those Efforts With Our Concern To Preserve Our Environment. In The Past, As We Have Sought New Energy Sources, We Have Too Often Damaged Or Despoiled Our Land.

Past

Land

Effort

Government Has The Responsibility To Provide The Climate In Which Americans, All Americans, Have An Opportunity For Good Jobs; And Not Only For Good Jobs, But An Opportunity If They Have The Ability And The Desire, To Be Owners And Managers, To Have A Piece Of The Action, Because If They Have A Piece Of The Action, Then They Believe In The System Rather Than Fighting Against It.

Wisdom

Jobs

Believe

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.

War

Sleep

Fighting

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.

Inspirational

Life

Motivational

Restoring Nature To Its Natural State Is A Cause Beyond Party And Beyond Factions. It Has Become A Common Cause Of All The People Of This Country. It Is A Cause Of Particular Concern To Young Americans, Because They More Than We Will Reap The Grim Consequences Of Our Failure To Act On Programs Which Are Needed Now If We Are To Prevent Disaster Later.

Country

Party

People

For One Priceless Moment In The Whole History Of Man, All Of The People On This Earth Are Truly One. One In Their Pride At What You Have Done, One In Our Prayers That You Will Return Safely To Earth.

Prayer

Patriotic

Pride

I Don't Give A Damn About The Civilians.

Giving

Politics

Damn

I Would Not Like To Be A Political Leader In Russia. They Never Know When They're Being Taped.

Russia

Leader

Political

Nobody Is A Friend Of Ours. Let's Face It.

Politics

Faces

Politician

The Average American Is Just Like The Child In The Family.

Children

Average

Under The Doctrine Of Separation Of Powers, The Manner In Which The President Personally Exercises His Assigned Executive Powers Is Not Subject To Questioning By Another Branch Of Government.

Exercise

Government

President

Communism Denies God, Enslaves Men, And Destroys Justice.

Men

Evil

Justice

If You Take No Risks, You Will Suffer No Defeats. But If You Take No Risks, You Win No Victories.

Winning

Risk

Suffering

Understanding Quotes: Their Essence and Application

Quotes, or quotations, are powerful tools in communication, encapsulating ideas, emotions, and wisdom in concise expressions. They serve various purposes across different contexts, from academic writing to everyday conversation.

1. Defining Quotes

A quote is a repetition of someone else's statement or thoughts. It can be a direct replication of words spoken or written by another individual, often used to support arguments, provide evidence, or convey profound insights.

2. The Importance of Quotes

2.1. Enhancing Credibility

Incorporating quotes from authoritative sources can bolster the credibility of your work. By referencing experts or primary sources, you demonstrate thorough research and a solid foundation for your arguments.

2.2. Providing Evidence

Quotes serve as concrete evidence to support claims. In academic and professional writing, they validate points made, offering readers a basis to trust the information presented.

2.3. Conveying Emotions and Perspectives

Quotes can encapsulate emotions and perspectives succinctly. They allow writers to express complex feelings or viewpoints through the words of others, often more eloquently than paraphrasing.

3. Types of Quotes

3.1. Direct Quotes

Direct quotes involve copying the exact words from a source, enclosed in quotation marks. They are used when the original wording is significant or particularly well-expressed.

3.2. Indirect Quotes (Paraphrasing)

Indirect quotes restate the original message in your own words. While not enclosed in quotation marks, they still require proper attribution to the original source.

3.3. Block Quotes

Block quotes are lengthy direct quotations, formatted as a separate block of text. They are typically used for quotes exceeding a certain length, varying by citation style. For instance, in APA style, quotes longer than 40 words are formatted as block quotes.

4. Proper Usage of Quotes

4.1. Contextual Relevance

Ensure that the quote you choose is relevant to the topic and adds value to your content. Avoid inserting quotes solely for decorative purposes.

4.2. Integration into Your Writing

Seamlessly integrate quotes into your writing. Introduce them appropriately and follow up with analysis or commentary to connect them to your main points.

4.3. Attribution and Citation

Always attribute quotes to their original authors and provide proper citations according to the required style guide (APA, MLA, Chicago, etc.).

5. Common Mistakes to Avoid

5.1. Overusing Quotes

Relying too heavily on quotes can overshadow your voice. Use them sparingly to support your arguments, not replace them.

5.2. Lack of Analysis

Presenting a quote without analysis or explanation can leave readers questioning its relevance. Always follow up with your interpretation or discussion.

5.3. Misquoting or Taking Out of Context

Ensure that quotes are accurate and not taken out of context, as this can mislead readers and undermine your credibility.

6. Quotes in Different Contexts

6.1. Academic Writing

In academic writing, quotes are used to support arguments, provide evidence, and engage with existing literature. Proper citation is crucial to avoid plagiarism.

6.2. Journalism

Journalists use quotes to provide firsthand accounts, add authenticity, and present multiple perspectives within a story.

6.3. Literature and Creative Writing

In literature, quotes can be used to convey character voices, themes, and stylistic elements. They enrich narratives and provide depth to storytelling.

7. Punctuation and Formatting

Understanding the correct punctuation and formatting of quotes is essential:

Quotation Marks: Always enclose direct quotes within quotation marks.

Punctuation Placement: In American English, periods and commas are placed inside quotation marks, while colons and semicolons are placed outside.

Block Quotes: For longer quotes, format them as block quotes without quotation marks, and indent the entire block.

8. Ethical Considerations

Ethical use of quotes involves accurate representation, proper attribution, and respect for intellectual property. Misuse can lead to plagiarism, which carries serious academic and professional consequences.

9. Tools for Managing Quotes

Utilize tools like citation generators and plagiarism checkers to manage quotes effectively. These tools help ensure proper formatting and originality in your writing.

Conclusion

Quotes are invaluable in enriching content, providing evidence, and conveying complex ideas succinctly. When used appropriately, they enhance the quality and credibility of your writing. Always ensure relevance, proper integration, and ethical usage to maximize their impact.

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