Richard M. Nixon

Richard M. Nixon

"The man of thought who will not act is ineffective; the man of action who will not think is dangerous."
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"The man of thought who will not act is ineffective; the man of action who will not think is dangerous."
Richard M. Nixon
"The answer to many of the domestic problems we face is not higher taxes and more spending. It is less waste, more results and greater freedom for the individual American to earn a rightful place in his own community - and for States and localities to address their own needs in their own ways, in the light of their own priorities."
Richard M. Nixon
"What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance."
Richard M. Nixon
"Don't get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects."
Richard M. Nixon
"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
"Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines."
Richard M. Nixon
"Voters quickly forget what a man says."
Richard M. Nixon
"Government can provide opportunity. But opportunity means nothing unless people are prepared to seize it."
Richard M. Nixon
"Black Americans, no more than white Americans, they do not want more government programs which perpetuate dependency. They don't want to be a colony in a nation."
Richard M. Nixon
"We are not spending the Federal Government's money, we are spending the taxpayer's money, and it must be spent n a way which guarantees his money's worth and yields the fullest possible benefit to the people being helped."
Richard M. Nixon
"It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody."
Richard M. Nixon
"I played by the rules of politics as I found them."
Richard M. Nixon
"Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion."
Richard M. Nixon
"Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that."
Richard M. Nixon
"We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy."
Richard M. Nixon
"We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another."
Richard M. Nixon
"If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories."
Richard M. Nixon
"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
"I let the American people down."
Richard M. Nixon
"I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate."
Richard M. Nixon
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