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What We Do With This Peace-whether We Preserve It And Defend It, Or Whether We Lose It And Let It Slip Away-will Be The Measure Of Our Worthiness Of The Spirit And Sacrifice Of The Hundreds Of Thousands Who Gave Their Lives In Two World Wars, Korea, And In Vietnam.

-Richard M. Nixon

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What We Do With This Peace-whether We Preserve It And Defend It, Or Whether We Lose It And Let It Slip Away-will Be The Measure Of Our Worthiness Of The Spirit And Sacrifice Of The Hundreds Of Thousands Who Gave Their Lives In Two World Wars, Korea, And In Vietnam.

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What Kind Of Nation We Will Be, What Kind Of World We Will Live In, Whether We Shape The Future In The Image Of Our Hopes, Is Ours To Determine By Our Actions And Our Choices.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

When I Am The Candidate, I Run The Campaign.

The American People Are Entitled To See The President And To Hear His Views Directly, And Not To See Him Only Through The Press.

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.

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!

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

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

For Among Nations - As Within Nations - The Soundest Unity Is That Which Respects Diversity, And The Strongest Cohesion Is That Which Rejects Coercion.

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

Clean Air, Clean Water, Open Spaces - These Should Once Again Be The Birthright Of Every American.

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.

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

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.

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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Television Watching

Extremists On The Left Tend To Be Just As Critical Of Pragmatism As Extremists On The Right.

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I Think Congress Has Spent Enough Time On Ethics. I Think It's Time They Moved On To Something Else.

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

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

This Is The Greatest Week In The History Of The World Since The Creation, Because As A Result Of What Happened In This Week, The World Is Bigger, Infinitely.

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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.

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.

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

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

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.

We Still Think Of Air As Free. But Clean Air Is Not Free, And Neither Is Clean Water. The Price Tag On Pollution Control Is High. Through Our Years Of Past Carelessness We Incurred A Debt To Nature, And Now That Debt Is Being Called.

If You Want To Make Beautiful Music, You Must Play The Black And The White Notes Together.

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?

You Must Never Give Up. You Must Remember That You Have To Take Risks In Order To Achieve Anything And Sometimes You Will Suffer Defeat. But The Mark Of Any Individual Is To Recover From Defeat And Disappointment And Go On And Give It His Best Shot.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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I'm Not A Lovable Man.

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

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

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

I Have Never Been A Quitter. To Leave Office Before My Term Is Completed Is Opposed To Every Instinct In My Body. But As President I Must Put The Interests Of America First Therefore, I Shall Resign The Presidency Effective At Noon Tomorrow.

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.

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.

Defeat Doesn't Finish A Man, Quit Does.

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