Richard Milhouse Nixon

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"I wish I could give you a lot of advice, based on my experience of winning political debates. But I don't have that experience. My only experience is at losing them."	Argument, Experience, Hope
"I wouldn't bet the farm on it, but I'd bet the main house. I wouldn't even bet the outhouse on Mondale."	Miscellaneous
"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."	Men, Time, Violence
"It is not too strong a statement to declare that this is the way civilizations begin to die ... None of us has the right to suppose it cannot happen here."	Death, Men, Strength
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself--nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance."	Effort, Fear
"Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself."	Age, Courage, Destruction
"This [is] a burden I shall bear for every day of the life that is left to me."	Life, Time
"Get a good night's sleep and don't bug anybody without asking me." (To re-election campaign manager Clark MacGregor)"	Age, Evil, Men
"You see these bums, you know, blowing up campuses ... storming around about this issue." (On student protesters against Vietnam War)"	Knowledge, Military, War
"Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do."	Ability, Men, Politics
"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."	America, Quitting
"Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself."	Destruction, Memory
"The greatness comes not when things go always good for you. But the greatness comes when you're really tested, when you take some knocks, some disappointments, when sadness comes. Because only if you've been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain."	Evil, Excellence, Greatness
"Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too."	Government, Honesty, Men
"My concern today is not with the length of a person's hair but with his conduct." (On campus radicals)"	Time
"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."	Ability, Excellence, Men
"This is the greatest week in the history of the world since the Creation." (Saluting crew of the Apollo 11)"	Excellence, History, Sin
"Tonight-to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans-I ask for your support." (On his Vietnam War policy)"	America, Excellence, Military
"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."	Knowledge, Men, Wisdom
"My strong point is not rhetoric, it isn't showmanship, it isn't big promises-those things that create the glamour and the excitement that people call charisma and warmth."	Men, Military, Strength
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