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The three most difficult words to speak are, I was wrong.

The three most difficult words to speak are, "I was wrong."

Richard M. Nixon
Responsibility, Three, Speak

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.

They say it's the responsibility of the media to look at government - especially the President - with a microscope. I don't argue with that, but when they use a proctoscope, it's going too far.

Richard M. Nixon
Responsibility, Government, Media

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