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When I grow up, I want to be an honest lawyer so things like that can't happen.

When I grow up, I want to be an honest lawyer so things like that can't happen.

Richard M. Nixon
Growing Up, Want, Honest

Fate has ordained that the men who went to the moon to explore in peace will stay on the moon to rest in peace. These brave men, Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin, know that there is no hope for their recovery. But they also know that there is hope for mankind in their sacrifice.

Richard M. Nixon
Rest In Peace, Recovery, Sacrifice
"What If Apollo 11 Failed? President Nixon Had Speech Ready" by Nola Taylor Redd, www.space.com. July 22, 2014.

You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference.

Richard M. Nixon
Presidential, Gentleman, Complaining
Press conference, Los Angeles, Calif., 7 Nov. 1962

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.

Richard M. Nixon
Jobs, Destiny, Air
"Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1973".

Always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty.

Richard M. Nixon
Giving, Discouraged, Great Presidents
Address to members of administration on leaving office as president, 9 Aug. 1974

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.

Richard M. Nixon
America, Office, President
Address to the Nation Announcing Decision to Resign the Office of President, 8 Aug. 1974

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.

Richard M. Nixon
Tides, Middle, Vocation

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?

Richard M. Nixon
Air, Land, Water
Nixon, Richard M. (1971). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1970”, p.12, Best Books on

Most days I feel like the sole survivor of a shipwreck, rowing my paddleboat across a sea of people on waves made of an infinite array of hands and crests that reveal anonymous faces. On a good day, the clouds part to alight on-lo and behold-an island! I step ashore, only find that it too is made of people, mangled bodies somehow still alive. They grab at my feet, pulling me under like quicksand. The last thing I see before suffocating is the sky, a billion eyes staring down, blinking in undulating electric ripples. The cold rain I feel on my cheeks is the tears of the people.

Richard M. Nixon
Rain, Good Day, Eye

Government can provide opportunity. But opportunity means nothing unless people are prepared to seize it.

Richard M. Nixon
Mean, Opportunity, Government

If you think the United States has stood still, who built the largest shopping center in the world?

Richard M. Nixon
Humorous, Thinking, Shopping
Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Communism starts with the proposition that there are no universal truths or general truths of human nature.

Richard M. Nixon
Evil, Human Nature, Communism

In his heart everyone knows that the only people who get rich from the "get rich quick" books are those who write them.

Richard M. Nixon
Book, Writing, Heart

As far as I am concerned now, I have no enemies in the press whatsoever.

Richard M. Nixon
Enemy, Concerned, Presses

Don't get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.

Richard M. Nixon
Anger, Impression, Angry
Nixon, Richard M. (1975). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1973”, p.905, Best Books on

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.

Richard M. Nixon
Children, Responsibility, Average
Post-re-election interview with Garnett D. Horner, The Washington Star-News (p. 1), November 9, 1972.

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.

Richard M. Nixon
Lying, Real, Believe
"Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1971".

Unpredictability is the greatest asset a leader can have.

Richard M. Nixon
Leader, Assets, Unpredictability

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.

Richard M. Nixon
Past, Land, Effort
Nixon, Richard M. (1975). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1973”, p.102, Best Books on

I don't know a lot about politics, but I know a lot about baseball.

Richard M. Nixon
Baseball, Knows

Extremists on the left tend to be just as critical of pragmatism as extremists on the right.

Richard M. Nixon
Pragmatism, Critical, Extremist

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.

Richard M. Nixon
Wisdom, Jobs, Believe

We are committed to cleaning up the air and cleaning up the water. But we also are committed to a strong economy, and we are not going to allow the environmental issue to be used sometimes falsely and sometimes in a demagogic way basically to destroy the system-the industrial system that made this the great country it is.

Richard M. Nixon
Country, Strong, Air

Until he has been part of a cause larger than himself, no man is truly whole.

Richard M. Nixon
Men, Causes, Whole

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.

Richard M. Nixon
Cities, Space, People
Nixon, Richard M. (1971). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1970”, p.13, Best Books on