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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

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 M. Nixon
Thinking, History, Life Is

When I am the candidate, I run the campaign.

Richard M. Nixon
Running, Campaigns, Candidates
"Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard Nixon", p. 21, 1971.

The language of politics is poetry, not prose. Jackson is poetry. Cuomo is poetry. Dukakis is a word processor.

Richard M. Nixon
Language, Prose, Processors

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.

Richard M. Nixon
Football, Boys, Games

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.

Richard M. Nixon
Prayer, Patriotic, Pride
Telephone Talk With Apollo 11 Astronauts on the Moon, delivered 20 July 1969, Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.

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.

Richard M. Nixon
Time, Men, Discipline

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.

Richard M. Nixon
Peace, Strong, Responsibility
Second Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1973

We must maintain the integrity of the White House, and that integrity must be real, not transparent. There can be no whitewash at the White House.

Richard M. Nixon
Integrity, Real, White
Nixon, Richard M. (1975). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1973”, p.332, Best Books on

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.

Richard M. Nixon
Kindness, Angel, Simple
Nixon, Richard M. (1971). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1969”, p.2, Best Books on

There is no such thing as a nonpolitical speech by a politician.

Richard M. Nixon
Speech, Politician
"The Christian Science Monitor", p. 6, September 15, 1955.

Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.

Richard M. Nixon
Moving, Eras, Conflict

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.

Richard M. Nixon
Thinking, President, Towns

A man isn't finnished when he is beaten he is finnished when he quits

Richard M. Nixon
Men, Quitting, Beaten

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.

Richard M. Nixon
Games, Cake, Pieces

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.

Richard M. Nixon
Mean, Long, Community
Richard M. Nixon's speech on the October Crisis (October 1970) as quoted in Louis Fournier "F.L.Q: The Anatomy of an Underground movement" (p. 256), 1984.

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.'

Richard M. Nixon
Strong, War, Men

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.

Richard M. Nixon
Office, President, Answers

They say, "Gee, you look great." That means they thought you looked like hell before.

Richard M. Nixon
Mean, Looks, Hell

I want to be sure...that nothing is done on these veterans. Is that understood?...Is the word out? That they are not to touch em, they are not to do a thing?...Get a hold of the district police; they're not to touch them, they're to do nothing: Just let em raise Hell.

Richard M. Nixon
War, Police, Ems

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.

Richard M. Nixon
War, Believe, Boys

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.

Richard M. Nixon
Jobs, Walking Away, People
Nixon, Richard M. (1975). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1974”, p.55, Best Books on

Since I have never one a debate let me tell you how not to lose one.

Richard M. Nixon
Debate, Let Me, Loses

What are our schools for if not indoctrination against Communism?

Richard M. Nixon
School, Politics, Communism

Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out.

Richard M. Nixon
History, Streams

I've never left a game before it ended. You never know when there could be a big turnaround in the game.

Richard M. Nixon
Inspirational, Motivational, Baseball