Richard M. Nixon
You cannot win a battle in any arena merely by defending yourself.Collection: Success
You must never give up. You must remember that you have to take risks in order to achieve anything and sometimes you will suffer defeat. But the mark of any individual is to recover from defeat and disappointment and go on and give it his best shot.Collection: Disappointment
The Italians . . . you can't find one who is honest.Collection: Honest
Yet we can maintain a free society only if we recognize that in a free society no one can win all the time. No one can have his own way all the time, and no one is right all the time.Collection: Time
The 1970s must be the years when America pays its debt to the past by reclaiming the purity of its air, its waters, and our living environment. It is literally now or never.Collection: Past
I always remember that whatever I have done in the past or may do in the future, Duke University is responsible in one way or another.Collection: Past
It is essential that we take steps to prevent chemical substances from becoming environmental hazards. Unless we develop better methods to assure adequate testing of chemicals, we will be inviting the environmental crisis of the future.Collection: Environmental
If, when the chips are down, the worlds most powerful nation, the United States of America, acts like a pitiful, helpless giant, the forces of totalitarianism and anarchy will threaten free nations and free institutions throughout the world.Collection: Powerful
While might certainly does not make right, neither does right by itself make might.Collection: Peace
The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.Collection: Politics
Our youth can not understand why society chooses to criminalize a behavior with so little visible ill effect or adverse social impact... These young people have jumped the fence and found no cliff. And the disrespect for the possession laws fosters a disrespect for laws and the system in general... On top of this is the distinct impression among the youth that some police may use the marihuana laws to arrest people they don't like for other reasons, whether it be their politics, their hair style or their ethnic background.Collection: Marijuana
I never leave a game before the last pitch, because in baseball, as in life and especially politics, you never know what will happen.Collection: Baseball
I like the job I have, but if I had to live my life over again, I would like to have ended up a sports writer.Collection: Sports
As you know, the separation of church and state is not subject to discussion or alteration. Under our Constitution no church or religion can be supported by the U.S. Government. We maintain freedom of religion so that an American can either worship in the church of his choice or choose to go to no church at all.Collection: Government
I would rather be a one-term President and do what I believe is right than to be a two-term President at the cost of seeing America become a second-race power and to see this Nation accept the first defeat in its proud 190-year history.Collection: Believe
I knew if I continued to look around it would be difficult for me to contain my own emotions. So I turned away from the red eyes of the crowd and looked only at the red eye of the camera, talking to all the nation.Collection: Eye
I refuse to make a decision that somebody else can make. The first rule of leadership is to save yourself for the big decision. Don't allow your mind to become cluttered.Collection: Decision
Any culture which can put a man on the Moon is capable of gathering all the nations of the earth in peace, justice and concord.Collection: Moon
Television in its present form...[is] the opiate of the people of the United States.Collection: People
Idealism without pragmatism is impotent. Pragmatism without idealism is meaningless. The key to effective leadership is pragmatic idealism.Collection: Keys
Peace demands more, not less, from a people. Peace lacks the clarity of purpose and the cadence of war. War is scripted: peace is improvisation.Collection: Peace
I never say something I cannot do. And I always will do more than I can say.Collection: I Can
Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them back.Collection: Hate
People are persuaded by reason, but moved by emotion; [the leader] must both persuade them and move them.Collection: Moving
I don't give a damn about the civilians.Collection: Giving
Nothing matters more to the future of this Nation than insuring that our young men and women learn to believe in themselves and believe in their dreams, and that they develop this capacitythat you develop this capacity, so that you keep it all of your lives. I believe one of Americas most priceless assets is the idealism which motivates the young people of America. My generation has invested all that it has, not only its love but its hope and faith, in yours.Collection: Love
Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does.Collection: Inspirational
I seriously doubt if we will ever have another war. This is probably the very last one.Collection: War
Fate has ordained that the men who went to the moon to explore in peace will stay on the moon to rest in peace. These brave men, Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin, know that there is no hope for their recovery. But they also know that there is hope for mankind in their sacrifice.Collection: Rest In Peace
When I grow up, I want to be an honest lawyer so things like that can't happen.Collection: Growing Up
God, of course, is the greatest philosopher of all.Collection: Philosopher
The destiny of our land, the air we breathe, the water we drink is not in the mystical hands of an uncontrollable agent, it is in our hands. A future which brings the balancing of our resources-preserving quality with quantity - is a future limited only by the boundaries of our will to get the job done.Collection: Jobs
Always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty.Collection: Giving
Once you get into this great stream of history you can't get out. You can drown. Or you can be pulled ashore by the tide. But it is awfully hard to get out when you are in the middle of the stream -- if it is intended that you stay there.Collection: Tides
I doubt if any of them would even intentionally double-park.Collection: Doubt
This Memorial Day should remind us of the greatness that past generations of Americans achieved from Valley Forge to Vietnam, and it should inspire us with the determination to keep America great and free by keeping America safe and strong in our own time, a time of unique destiny and opportunity for our Nation.Collection: Memorial Day
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.Collection: Running
Anybody who wants to be an ambassador, wants to pay at least $250,000.Collection: Ambassadors
... Member Countries shall take necessary action and/or shall establish negotiations, individually or in groups, with the oil companies with a view to adopting ways and means to offset any adverse effects on the per barrel real income of Member Countries resulting from the international monetary developments as of 15th August 1971.Collection: Country
It's long been common practice among many to draw a distinction between "human rights" and "property rights," suggesting that the two are separate and unequal - with "property rights" second to "human rights."Collection: Wisdom
It is not enough just to be for peace. The point is, what can we do about it?Collection: Peace
The sky is no longer the limit.Collection: Sky
No words can describe the depths of my regret and pain at the anguish my mistakes over Watergate have caused the nation and the presidency - a nation I so deeply love and an institution I so greatly respect.Collection: Pain
If some of my judgments were wrong - and some were wrong - they were made in what I believed at the time to be the best interest of the nation.Collection: Judgment
You have my assurance that we will respond with full force should the settlement be violated by North Vietnam.Collection: War
Those few days after Kent State were among the darkest of my presidency.Collection: Political
Each moment in history is a fleeting time, precious and unique. But some stand out as moments of beginning, in which courses are set that shape decades or centuries.Collection: Unique
The Constitution supposes what the history of all governments demonstrates, that the executive is the branch of power most interested in war and most prone to it. It has accordingly with studied care, vested the question of war in the legislature. [If a president is successful in bypassing the Congress] it is evident that the people are cheated out of the best ingredients in the government, the safeguards of peace which is the greatest of their blessings.Collection: War
America will not tolerate being pushed around by anybody, anyplace.Collection: America