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Lyndon Johnson rose above the doubt and fear to hold this Nation on course until we rediscovered our faith in ourselves.

Lyndon Johnson rose above the doubt and fear to hold this Nation on course until we rediscovered our faith in ourselves.

Richard M. Nixon
Rose, Doubt, Johnson
Nixon, Richard M. (1975). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1973”, p.17, Best Books on

When the death of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt thrust him suddenly into the Presidency in April of 1945 at one of the most critical moments of our history, he met that moment with courage and vision. His farsighted leadership in the postwar era has helped ever since to preserve peace and freedom in the world.

Richard M. Nixon
Vision, President, Eras
Nixon, Richard M. (1974). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1972”, p.1160, Best Books on

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.

Richard M. Nixon
Simple, Presidential, Pages

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.

Richard M. Nixon
Presidential, Choices, Our Actions
Nixon, Richard M. (1971). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1969”, p.1, Best Books on

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.

Richard M. Nixon
Arms, Hungry, Poor
Nixon, Richard M. (1971). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1969”, p.3, Best Books on

[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.

Richard M. Nixon
War, Government, Two

We must never forget that if the war in Vietnam is lost ... the right of free speech will be extinguished throughout the world.

Richard M. Nixon
War, Vietnam, World

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.

Richard M. Nixon
Party, Government, Leader

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.

Richard M. Nixon
Judgment, Being The Best, Made
Resignation Address to the Nation, delivered 8 August 1974

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.

Richard M. Nixon
Unique, Fleeting, Shapes
Nixon, Richard M. (1971). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1969”, p.1, Best Books on

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.

Richard M. Nixon
Powerful, War, Balance

It's long been common practice among many to draw a distinction between "human rights" and "property rights," suggesting that the two are separate and unequal - with "property rights" second to "human rights."

Richard M. Nixon
Wisdom, Rights, Practice

Peace is the real and right memorial for those who have died in war.

Richard M. Nixon
Memorial Day, Real, War

... 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.

Richard M. Nixon
Country, Real, Mean

My telephone calls and meetings and decisions were now parts of a prescribed ritual aimed at making peace with the past; his calls, his meetings and his decisions were already the ones that would shape America's future." (On transfer of power to Gerald R Ford)

Richard M. Nixon
Art, Peace, Reading

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)

Richard M. Nixon
Doors, Office, Leaving

America will not tolerate being pushed around by anybody, anyplace.

Richard M. Nixon
America, Tolerate
1960 Republican National Convention Acceptance Address, delivered 28 July 1960, International Amphitheatre, Chicago, IL

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.

Richard M. Nixon
Peace, Mean, America

It is not enough just to be for peace. The point is, what can we do about it?

Richard M. Nixon
Peace, Enough
Interview with C. L. Sulzberger in The New York Times (p. 14), March 8, 1971.

Bring us together again.

Richard M. Nixon
Together Again, Presidential, Together
Speech, New York, N.Y., 31 Oct. 1968

In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.

Richard M. Nixon
Funny, Birthday, Witty

Yes, I wish I'd done it sooner.

Richard M. Nixon
War, Wish, Done

If I had my life to live over, I would have liked to have ended up as a sportswriter.

Richard M. Nixon
Inspirational, Ifs

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.

Richard M. Nixon
Children, Italian, What Matters

No words can describe the depths of my regret and pain at the anguish my mistakes over Watergate have caused the nation and the presidency - a nation I so deeply love and an institution I so greatly respect.

Richard M. Nixon
Pain, Regret, War