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Once one determines that he or she has a mission in life, that's it's not going to be accomplished without a great deal of pain, and that the rewards in the end may not outweigh the pain --if you recognize historically that always happens, then when it comes, you survive it.
By Richard Milhous Nixon
A man who has never lost himself in a cause bigger than himself has missed one of life's mountaintop experiences. Only in losing himself does he find himself. Only then does he discover all the latent strengths he never knew he had and which otherwise would have remained dormant.
By Richard Milhous Nixon
This is the greatest week in the history of the world since the Creation, because as a result of what happened in this week, the world is bigger, infinitely.
By Richard Milhous Nixon
Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them; and then you destroy yourself.
By Richard Milhous Nixon
For its part, Government will listen. We will strive to listen in new ways -- to the voices of quiet anguish, to voices that speak without words, the voices of the heart, to the injured voices, and the anxious voices, and the voices that have despaired of being heard.
By Richard Milhous Nixon
People react to fear, not love --they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.
By Richard Milhous 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.
By Richard Milhous Nixon
The easiest period in a crisis situation is actually the battle itself. The most difficult is the period of indecision--whether to fight or run away. And the most dangerous period is the aftermath. It is then, with all his resources spent and his guard down that an individual must watch out for dulled reactions and faulty judgment.
By Richard Milhous Nixon
The lesson of all history warns us that we should negotiate only when our military superiority is so convincing that we can achieve our objective at the conference table, and deny the aggressor theirs.
By Richard Milhous Nixon
Your mind must always go, even while you're shaking hands and going through all the maneuvers. I developed the ability long ago to do one thing while thinking about another.
By Richard Milhous Nixon
You're so goddamned concerned about the civilians, and I don't give a damn. to Secretary of State Henry Kissinger on civilian casualties in Vietnam
By Richard Milhous Nixon
You see these bums, you know, blowing up campuses ... storming around about this issue. (On student protesters against Vietnam War)
By Richard Milhous Nixon
While technically I did not commit a crime, an impeachable offense... these are legalisms, as far as the handling of this matter is concerned it was so botched up, I made so many bad judgments. The worst ones, mistakes of the heart, rather than the head. But let me say, a man in that top job - he's got to have a heart, but his head must always rule his heart.
By Richard Milhous Nixon
Who are you going to shoot joking with Attorney General Richard Kleindienst about creating an opening on the Supreme court
By Richard Milhous 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.
By Richard Milhous Nixon
We are all in it together. This is a war. We take a few shots and it will be over. We will give them a few shots and it will be over.
By Richard Milhous Nixon
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.
By Richard Milhous Nixon
Tonight-to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans-I ask for your support. (On his Vietnam War policy)
By Richard Milhous Nixon
This is the greatest week in the history of the world since the Creation. (Saluting crew of the Apollo 11)
By Richard Milhous Nixon
This is a burden I shall bear for every day of the life that is left to me.
By Richard Milhous Nixon
There will be no whitewash in the White House. (On Watergate investigation)
By Richard Milhous Nixon
There is a time to be timid. There is a time to be conciliatory. There is a time, even, to fly and there is a time to fight. And I'm going to fight like hell. (On Congressional moves toward impeachment)
By Richard Milhous Nixon
There are some people, you know, they think the way to be a big man is to shout and stomp and raise hell-and then nothing ever really happens. I'm not like that ... I never shoot blanks.
By Richard Milhous Nixon
The student who invades an administration building, roughs up a dean, rifles the files and issues 'non-negotiable demands' may have some of his demands met by a permissive university administration. But the greater his 'victory' the more he will have undermined the security of his own rights.
By Richard Milhous Nixon
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself--nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
By Richard Milhous Nixon