Richard M. 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.Collection: Peace
What are our schools for if not indoctrination against Communism?Collection: School
The recent upsurge of public concern over environmental questions reflects a belated recognition that man has been too cavalier in his relations with nature. Unless we arrest the depredations that have been inflicted so carelessly on our natural systems-which exist in an intricate set of balances-we face the prospect of ecological disaster.Collection: Men
Since I have never one a debate let me tell you how not to lose one.Collection: Debate
During the Prince's visit, King Timahoe will be referred to only as Timahoe, since it would be inappropriate for the Prince to be outranked by a dog.Collection: Dog
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.Collection: Men
The people's right to change what does not work is one of the greatest principles in our system of governmentCollection: Government
It is sad that it was necessary that Santa Barbara should be the example that had to bring it to the attention of the American people. What is involved is the use of our resources of the sea and of the land in a more effective way and with more concern for preserving the beauty and the natural resources that are so important to any kind of society that we want for the future. The Santa Barbara incident has frankly touched the conscience of the American people.Collection: Santa Barbara
Our peaceful borders and our peaceful history are important symbols, to be sure. What they symbolize, however, is the spirit of respect and restraint which allow us to cooperate, despite our differences, in way which help us both.Collection: Differences
We still think of air as free. But clean air is not free, and neither is clean water. The price tag on pollution control is high. Through our years of past carelessness we incurred a debt to nature, and now that debt is being called.Collection: Past
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.Collection: Heart
By taking this action, I hope that I will have hastened the start of the healing.Collection: Healing
'Environment' is not an abstract concern, or simply a matter of aesthetics, or of personal taste - although it can and should involve these as well. Man is shaped to a great extent by his surroundings. Our physical nature, our mental health, our culture and institutions, our opportunities for challenge and fulfillment, our very survival - all of these are directly related to and affected by the environment in which we live. They depend upon the continued healthy functioning of the natural systems of the Earth.Collection: Men
Jesus this song you wrote The words are sticking in my throat Peace on Earth Hear it every Christmas time But hope and history won't rhyme So what's it worth? This peace on EarthCollection: Song
We have been through, over these years, some difficult times. During the period that I have served as President of the United States, we have been through some difficult times together, and I can only say that the friendship that we have for this nation, the respect and the admiration we have for the people of this nation, their courage, their tenacity, their firmness in the face of very great odds, is one that makes us proud to stand with Israel, as we have in the past in times of trouble, and now to work with Israel in a better time, a time that we trust will be a time of peace.Collection: Past
When I spoke at the St. Lawrence Seaway ceremonies in 1969, I borrowed some words from the monument there which I had joined Queen Elizabeth in dedicating just 10 years before. That monument, as its inscription puts it, 'bears witness to the common purpose of two nations whose frontiers are the frontiers of friendship, whose ways are the ways of freedom, whose works are the works of peace'.Collection: Queens
But more than anything else, we have learned that legal assistance for the poor, when properly provided, is one of the most constructive ways to help them help themselves.Collection: Justice
Don't try to take on a new personality; it doesn't work.Collection: Personality
Peace is a great goal, but it is not a panacea. Neither is material wealth.Collection: Goal
Because of the realities of human nature, perfect peace is achieved in two places only: in the grave and at the typewriter.Collection: Peace
Let historians not record that when America was the most powerful nation in the world we passed on the other side of the road and allowed the last hopes for peace and freedom of millions of people to be suffocated by the forces of totalitarianism. And so tonightto you, the great silent majority of my fellow AmericansI ask for your support.Collection: Peace
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.Collection: War
When I am the candidate, I run the campaign.Collection: Running
I think Congress has spent enough time on ethics. I think it's time they moved on to something else.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Quality
The three most difficult words to speak are, "I was wrong."Collection: Responsibility
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.Collection: Positive
You don't know how to lie. If you can't lie, you'll never go anywhere.Collection: Lying
Publicly, we say one thing....Actually, we do another.Collection: One Thing
Those who hate us only win if we hate them backCollection: Hate
I would not like to be a political leader in Russia. They never know when they're being taped.Collection: Russia
Rarely have so many people been so wrong about so much.Collection: Men
Idealism without realism is impotent. Realism without idealism is immoral.Collection: Realism
You can't depend on the man who made the mess to clean it up.Collection: Men
Well, I'm not a crook.Collection: Crooks
What a strange creature man is that he fouls his own nest.Collection: Men
To me, the most unhappy people in the world are the people ... in Palm Beach- Going to parties every night. Playing golf every afternoon, then bridge. [They have] no purpose.Collection: Beach
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.Collection: Lying
No president in history has been more vilified or was more vilivied during the time he was President than Lincoln. Those who knew him, his secretaries, have written that he was deeply hurt by what was said about him and drawn about him, but on the other hand, Lincoln had the great strength of character never to display it, always able to stand tall and strong and firm no matter how harsh or unfair the criticism might be. These elements of greatness, of course, inspire us all today.Collection: Strength
Once genius is submerged by bureaucracy, a nation is doomed to mediocrity.Collection: Genius
Clean air, clean water, open spaces - these should once again be the birthright of every American.Collection: Air
Before we become too arrogant with the most deadly of the seven deadly sins, the sin of pride, let us remember that the two great wars of this century, wars which cost twenty million dead, were fought between Christian nations praying to the same God.Collection: Christian
The Pakistanis are straightforward and sometimes extremely stupid. The Indians are more devious, sometimes so smart that we fall for their line.Collection: Smart
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.Collection: Destiny
I'm not at liberty to discuss the governments knowledge of extraterrestrial UFO's at this time. I am still personally being briefed on the subject!Collection: Government
What was Watergate? A little bugging!Collection: Littles
Television is to news as bumperstickers are to philosophy.Collection: Philosophy
I hereby resign this office of president of the United States.Collection: Office
A politician knows that his friends are not always his allies, and that his adversaries are not always his enemies.Collection: Enemy