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• 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.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Positive, Courage, Disappointment

  Farewell Remarks to White House Cabinet and Staff, delivered 9 August 1974

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• Reading not only enlarges and challenges the mind; it also engages and exercises the brain. Today's youth who sits mesmerized by a television screen is not going to be tomorrow's leader. Television watching is passive. Reading is active.

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  Reading, Exercise, Television Watching

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• Once genius is submerged by bureaucracy, a nation is doomed to mediocrity.

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  Genius, Mediocrity, Politics

  Remarks at a Promotion Ceremony for Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, December 3, 1973.

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• 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.

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  Rain, Good Day, Eye

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• The bastards have never been bombed like they're going to be bombed this time.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Military

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• Screw State! State's always on the side of the blacks. The hell with them!

  Richard M. Nixon

  Sides, Hell, States

  Foreign Relations of the United States 1969-1976, Volume E-5, Part 1, Documents on Sub-Saharan Africa 1969-1972, Document 258: Conversation Between President Nixon and the President's Assistant for National Security Affairs (Kissinger), Camp David, history.state.gov. September 24, 1972.

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• Communism denies God, enslaves men, and destroys justice.

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  Men, Evil, Justice

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• What we have done with the American Indian is its way as bad as what we imposed on the Negroes. We took a proud and independent race and virtually destroyed them. We have to find ways to bring them back into decent lives in this country.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Country, Independent, Race

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• Well, I screwed it up real good, didn't I?

  Richard M. Nixon

  Real, Wells

  1974 Comment to Chief of Staff Alexander M Haig and Press Secretary Ronald L Zeigler, 3 Aug, on beginning work on his resignation address. Recalled in RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon (1978).

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• The only place you and I disagree is with regard to the bombing. You're so goddamned concerned about the civilians, and I (in contrast) don't give a damn. I don't care.". . . "I'd rather use the nuclear bomb. . . Does that bother you? I just want you to think big.

  Richard M. Nixon

  War, Thinking, Giving

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• The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word "crisis." One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity.

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  Writing, Positive Thinking, Opportunity

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• Clean air, clean water, open spaces - these should once again be the birthright of every American.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Air, Space, Water

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

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• I would not like to be a political leader in Russia. They never know when they're being taped.

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  Russia, Leader, Political

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• People react to fear, not love; they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

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  Love, School, Sunday

  "Excerpt: 'Assault on Reason'", abcnews.go.com. May 22, 2007.

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• Politics would be a helluva good business if it weren't for the goddamned people.

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  Funny, Business, People

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• Rarely have so many people been so wrong about so much.

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  Men, People

  "No More Vietnams". Book by Richard M. Nixon, 1985.

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• You can't depend on the man who made the mess to clean it up.

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  Men, Clean, He Man

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• Television is to news as bumperstickers are to philosophy.

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  Philosophy, Media, News

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• No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.

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  Military, War, Misunderstood

  "No More Vietnams". Book by Richard M. Nixon, 1985.

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• I have impeached myself by resigning.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Failure, Political, Politics

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• Those who hate us only win if we hate them back

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  Hate, Winning, Ifs

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• If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.

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  Music, Beautiful, Equality

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• If you are ever going to lie, you go to jail for the lie rather than the crime. So believe me, don't ever lie.

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  Lying, Believe, Jail

  Richard M. Nixon's remarks to John Dean (April 1973) as quoted in Nixon Tapes "Submission of Recorded Presidential Conversations to the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives", 1974.

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• When information which properly belongs to the public is systematically withheld by those in power, the people soon become ignorant of their own affairs, distrustful of those who manage them, and -- eventually -- incapable of determining their own destinies.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Destiny, People, Ignorant

  Nixon, Richard M. (1974). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1972”, p.402, Best Books on

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• We will establish a new system that makes high-quality health care available to every American in a dignified manner and at a price he can afford.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Quality, Care, Available

  Nixon, Richard M. (1975). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1974”, p.49, Best Books on

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