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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?

-Richard M. Nixon

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In Our Own Lives,

Richard M. Nixon

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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?

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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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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.

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.

Government Can Provide Opportunity. But Opportunity Means Nothing Unless People Are Prepared To Seize It.

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

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

Tell Them To Send Everything That Can Fly.

My Own View Is That Taping Of Conversations For Historical Purposes Was A Bad Decision On The Part Of All The Presidents. I Don't Think Kennedy Should Have Done It. I Don't Think Johnson Should Have Done It, And I Don't Think We Should Have Done It.

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.

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

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

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.

If Some Of My Judgments Were Wrong - And Some Were Wrong - They Were Made In What I Believed At The Time To Be The Best Interest Of The Nation.

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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.

The Bohemian Grove, Which I Attend From Time To Time - It Is The Most Faggy Goddamned Thing You Could Ever Imagine.

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

We Are Not Spending The Federal Government's Money, We Are Spending The Taxpayer's Money, And It Must Be Spent N A Way Which Guarantees His Money's Worth And Yields The Fullest Possible Benefit To The People Being Helped.

Now That All The Members Of The Press Are So Delighted I Lost, I'd Like To Make A Statement. As I Leave You I Want You To Know -just Think How Much You'll Be Missing. You Won't Have Nixon To Kick Around Anymore Because, Gentlemen, This Is My Last Press Conference.

I Was Not Lying. I Said Things That Later On Seemed To Be Untrue.

For Years Politicians Have Promised The Moon. I'm The First One To Be Able To Deliver It.

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

If You Are Ever Going To Lie, You Go To Jail For The Lie Rather Than The Crime. So Believe Me, Don't Ever Lie.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Black Americans, No More Than White Americans, They Do Not Want More Government Programs Which Perpetuate Dependency. They Don't Want To Be A Colony In A Nation.

To The Ordinary Guy, All This Is A Bunch Of Gobbledygook. But Out Of The Gobbledygook Comes A Very Clear Thing: You Can't Trust The Government, You Can't Believe What They Say, And You Can't Rely On Their Judgment.

You Find Out Who Your True Friends Are Not When You Are On Top Of The World, But When The World Is On Top Of You.

Top Of The World

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.

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.

God, Of Course, Is The Greatest Philosopher Of All.

Mrs. Nixon And I Share The Sorrow Of Millions Of Americans At The Death Of Louis Armstrong. One Of The Architects Of An American Art Form, A Free And Individual Spirit, And An Artist Of Worldwide Fame, His Great Talents And Magnificent Spirit Added Richness And Pleasure To All Our Lives.

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I Don't Give A Damn About The Civilians.

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)

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

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

I Would Have Made A Good Pope.

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

Peace Is The Real And Right Memorial For Those Who Have Died In War.

When Information Which Properly Belongs To The Public Is Systematically Withheld By Those In Power, The People Soon Become Ignorant Of Their Own Affairs, Distrustful Of Those Who Manage Them, And -- Eventually -- Incapable Of Determining Their Own Destinies.

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Well, I'm Not A Crook.

I Was Under Medication When I Made The Decision To Burn The Tapes.

Let Us Begin By Committing Ourselves To The Truth To See It Like It Is, And Tell It Like It Is, To Find The Truth, To Speak The Truth, And To Live The Truth.

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.

My Gravest Secret Is That I Really Did Fake The Moon Landing. On Venus!

The Press Is The Enemy.

The Peace We Seek To Win Is Not Victory Over Any Other People, But The Peace That Comes "with Healing In Its Wings;" With Compassion For Those Who Have Suffered; With Understanding For Those Who Have Opposed Us; With The Opportunity For All The Peoples Of This Earth To Choose Their Own Destiny.

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

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

Positive Thinking

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The President Wants Me To Argue That He Is As Powerful A Monarch As Louis Xiv, Only Four Years At A Time, And Is Not Subject To The Processes Of Any Court In The Land Except The Court Of Impeachment.

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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.

I'm Glad I'm Not Brezhnev. Being The Russian Leader In The Kremlin. You Never Know If Someone's Tape Recording What You Say.

When I Spoke At The St. Lawrence Seaway Ceremonies In 1969, I Borrowed Some Words From The Monument There Which I Had Joined Queen Elizabeth In Dedicating Just 10 Years Before. That Monument, As Its Inscription Puts It, 'bears Witness To The Common Purpose Of Two Nations Whose Frontiers Are The Frontiers Of Friendship, Whose Ways Are The Ways Of Freedom, Whose Works Are The Works Of Peace'.

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.

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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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.

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Important Things

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I Got Into A Few Games After They Were Hopelessly Won Or Hopelessly Lost, You Know, When They Put The Substitutes In, And Finally The Water Boy, And Then Me. That Is The Way It Worked.

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

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You Don't Know How To Lie. If You Can't Lie, You'll Never Go Anywhere.

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No President In History Has Been More Vilified Or Was More Vilivied During The Time He Was President Than Lincoln. Those Who Knew Him, His Secretaries, Have Written That He Was Deeply Hurt By What Was Said About Him And Drawn About Him, But On The Other Hand, Lincoln Had The Great Strength Of Character Never To Display It, Always Able To Stand Tall And Strong And Firm No Matter How Harsh Or Unfair The Criticism Might Be. These Elements Of Greatness, Of Course, Inspire Us All Today.

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.

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

We Can No Longer Afford To Consider Air And Water Common Property, Free To Be Abused By Anyone Without Regard To The Consequences. Instead, We Should Begin Now To Treat Them As Scarce Resources, Which We Are No More Free To Contaminate Than We Are Free To Throw Garbage Into Our Neighbor's Yard.

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.

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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.

I Have The Greatest Affection For Them But I Know They're Not Going To Make It For 500 Years. They Aren't. You Know It, Too. The Mexicans Are A Different Cup Of Tea. They Have A Heritage. At The Present Time They Steal, They're Dishonest, But They Do Have Some Concept Of Family Life. They Don't Live Like A Bunch Of Dogs, Which The Negroes Do Live Like.

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

Jesus This Song You Wrote The Words Are Sticking In My Throat Peace On Earth Hear It Every Christmas Time But Hope And History Won't Rhyme So What's It Worth? This Peace On Earth

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.

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

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

You Cannot Win A Battle In Any Arena Merely By Defending Yourself.

I Learned That The People Who Have The Cards Are Usually The Ones Who Talk The Least And The Softest; Those Who Are Bluffing Tend To Talk Loudly And Give Themselves Away.

When I Am The Candidate, I Run The Campaign.

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

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.

Writing Is The Toughest Thing I've Ever Done.

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.

Clarity Of Purpose

We Are All In It Together. This Is A War. We Take A Few Shots And It Will Be Over. We Will Give Them A Few Shots And It Will Be Over.

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

I Made My Mistakes, But In All Of My Years In Public Life, I Have Never Profited, Never Profited From Public Servicei Have Earned Every Cent. And In All Of My Years Of Public Life, I Have Never Obstructed Justice. And I Think, Too, That I Could Say That In My Years Of Public Life, That I Welcome This Kind Of Examination, Because People Have Got To Know Whether Or Not Their President Is A Crook. Well, I Am Not A Crook. I Have Earned Everything I Have Got.

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.

The Great Silent Majority.

[t]here May Be Some Truth In That If The Arabs Have Some Complaints About My Policy Towards Israel, They Have To Realize That The Jews In The U. S. Control The Entire Information And Propaganda Machine, The Large Newspapers, The Motion Pictures, Radio And Television, And The Big Companies, And There Is A Force That We Have To Take Into Consideration.

I Never Say Something I Cannot Do. And I Always Will Do More Than I Can Say.

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

Defeat Doesn't Finish A Man, Quit Does.

Politics Would Be A Helluva Good Business If It Weren't For The Goddamned People.

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.

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

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.

Television Is To News As Bumperstickers Are To Philosophy.

Reading Not Only Enlarges And Challenges The Mind; It Also Engages And Exercises The Brain. Today's Youth Who Sits Mesmerized By A Television Screen Is Not Going To Be Tomorrow's Leader. Television Watching Is Passive. Reading Is Active.

Television Watching

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

Breathing Space

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?

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...

Academic Freedom

Let Historians Not Record That When America Was The Most Powerful Nation In The World We Passed On The Other Side Of The Road And Allowed The Last Hopes For Peace And Freedom Of Millions Of People To Be Suffocated By The Forces Of Totalitarianism. And So Tonightto You, The Great Silent Majority Of My Fellow Americansi Ask For Your Support.

Neil And Buzz, I Am Talking To You By Telephone From The Oval Office At The White House, And This Certainly Has To Be The Most Historic Telephone Call Ever Made. . . . Because Of What You Have Done, The Heavens Have Become A Part Of Man's World. As You Talk To Us From The Sea Of Tranquility, It Inspires Us To Redouble Our Efforts To Bring Peace And Tranquility To Earth.

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.

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.

But Above All, What This Congress Can Be Remembered For Is Opening The Way To A New American Revolutiona Peaceful Revolution In Which Power Was Turned Back To The Peoplein Which Government At All Levels Was Refreshed And Renewed And Made Truly Responsive. This Can Be A Revolution As Profound, As Far-reaching, As Exciting As That First Revolution Almost 200 Years Agoand It Can Mean That Just 5 Years From Now America Will Enter Its Third Century As A Young Nation New In Spirit, With All The Vigor And The Freshness With Which It Began Its First Century.

Peace Is A Great Goal, But It Is Not A Panacea. Neither Is Material Wealth.

And I Want You To Know That I Have No Intention Whatever Of Ever Walking Away From The Job That The People Elected Me To Do For The People Of The United States.

Solutions Are Not The Answer.

Until He Has Been Part Of A Cause Larger Than Himself, No Man Is Truly Whole.

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

Never Say No When A Client Asks For Something, Even If It Is The Moon. You Can Always Try, And Anyhow There Is Plenty Of Time Afterwards To Explain That It Was Not Possible.

Once You Get Into This Great Stream Of History, You Can't Get Out.

I Refuse To Make A Decision That Somebody Else Can Make. The First Rule Of Leadership Is To Save Yourself For The Big Decision. Don't Allow Your Mind To Become Cluttered.

We Believe That Part Of The Answer Lies In Pricing Energy On The Basis Of Its Full Costs To Society. One Reason We Use Energy So Lavishly Today Is That The Price Of Energy Does Not Include All Of The Social Costs Of Producing It. The Costs Incurred In Protecting The Environment And The Health And Safety Of Workers, For Example, Are Part Of The Real Costs Of Producing Energy-but They Are Not Now All Included In The Price Of The Product.

No Event In American History Is More Misunderstood Than The Vietnam War. It Was Misreported Then, And It Is Misremembered Now.

The Italians . . . You Can't Find One Who Is Honest.

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.

... Member Countries Shall Take Necessary Action And/or Shall Establish Negotiations, Individually Or In Groups, With The Oil Companies With A View To Adopting Ways And Means To Offset Any Adverse Effects On The Per Barrel Real Income Of Member Countries Resulting From The International Monetary Developments As Of 15th August 1971.

Anybody Who Wants To Be An Ambassador, Wants To Pay At Least $250,000.

I've Never Canceled A Subscription To A Newspaper Because Of Bad Cartoons Or Editorials. If That Were The Case, I Wouldn't Have Any Newspapers Or Magazines To Read.

My Strong Point, If I Have A Strong Point, Is Performance. I Always Do More Than I Say. I Always Produce More Than I Promise.

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

Yes, I Wish I'd Done It Sooner.

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.

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!

Maybe New York Shouldn't Survive. Maybe It Should Go Through A Cycle Of Destruction.

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

In The Television Age, The Key Distinction Is Between The Candidate Who Can Speak Poetry And The One Who Can Only Speak Prose.

The Environmental Agenda Before The Congress Includes Laws To Deal With Water Pollution, Pesticide Hazards, Ocean Dumping, Excessive Noise, Careless Land Development And Many Other Environmental Problems. These Problems Will Not Stand Still For Politics Or For Partisanship.

Before We Become Too Arrogant With The Most Deadly Of The Seven Deadly Sins, The Sin Of Pride, Let Us Remember That The Two Great Wars Of This Century, Wars Which Cost Twenty Million Dead, Were Fought Between Christian Nations Praying To The Same God.

The People's Right To Change What Does Not Work Is One Of The Greatest Principles In Our System Of Government

The Destiny Of Our Land, The Air We Breathe, The Water We Drink Is Not In The Mystical Hands Of An Uncontrollable Agent, It Is In Our Hands. A Future Which Brings The Balancing Of Our Resources-preserving Quality With Quantity - Is A Future Limited Only By The Boundaries Of Our Will To Get The Job Done.

What We Have Done With The American Indian Is Its Way As Bad As What We Imposed On The Negroes. We Took A Proud And Independent Race And Virtually Destroyed Them. We Have To Find Ways To Bring Them Back Into Decent Lives In This Country.

We Don't Owe The Blacks A Damn Thing, Anyway.

Nothing Is More Priceless And More Worthy Of Preservation Than The Rich Array Of Animal Life With Which Our Country Has Been Blessed. It Is A Many-faceted Treasure, Of Value To Scholars, Scientists, And Nature Lovers Alike, And It Forms A Vital Part Of The Heritage We All Share As Americans.

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.'

This Is A Great Day For France!

Bring Us Together Again.

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

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.

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

History Is A Pathetic Junkyard Of Broken Treaties.

The Communists Have Lost The Cold War, But The West Has Not Yet Won It.

I Believe In Building Bridges, But We Should Only Build Our End Of The Bridge.

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.

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.

I Doubt If Any Of Them Would Even Intentionally Double-park.

Well, I Screwed It Up Real Good, Didn't I?

Let Us Understand: North Vietnam Cannot Defeat Or Humiliate The United States. Only Americans Can Do That.

Voters Quickly Forget What A Man Says.

You've Got To Learn To Survive A Defeat. That's When You Develop Character.

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.

People Are Persuaded By Reason, But Moved By Emotion; [the Leader] Must Both Persuade Them And Move Them.

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.

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

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

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

What A Strange Creature Man Is That He Fouls His Own Nest.

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.

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.

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.

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

With All Our Differences, Whenever We Are Confronted With A Threat To Our Security We Are Not Then Republicans Or Democrats But Americans; We Are Not Then The Fifty States But The United States.

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

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

The Student Who Invades An Administration Building, Roughs Up A Dean, Rifles The Files And Issues 'non-negotiable Demands' May Have Some Of His Demands Met By A Permissive University Administration. But The Greater His 'victory' The More He Will Have Undermined The Security Of His Own Rights.

Tonight - To You, The Great Silent Majority Of My Fellow Americans - I Ask For Your Support.

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.

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

You Won't Have Nixon To Kick Around Anymore, Because, Gentlemen, This Is My Last Press Conference.

...we Must Strike A Balance So That The Protection Of Our Irreplaceable Heritage Becomes As Important As Its Use. The Price Of Economic Growth Need Not And Will Not Be Deterioration In The Quality Of Our Lives And Our Surroundings.

The Events That Followed Our Withdrawal From Vietnam, Including The Plight Of The Boat People And The More Than 1 Million Slaughtered By The New Communist Rulers Of Cambodia, Showed That Media Critics Who Said We Were On The Wrong Side Were Mistaken.

I'll Speak For The Man, Or Against Him, Whichever Will Do Him The Most Good.

Nothing Would Please The Kremlin More Than To Have The People Of This Country Choose A Second Rate 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.

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.

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.

Since I Have Never One A Debate Let Me Tell You How Not To Lose One.

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