Best Quotes by Richard M. Nixon (Top 10)
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When the President does it, that means that it's not illegal.
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Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.
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Federal and state laws (should) be changed to no longer make it a crime to possess marijuana for private use.
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We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another - until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.
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Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.
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I was not lying. I said things that later on seemed to be untrue.
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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.
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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.
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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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Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.
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More Richard M. Nixon Quotes
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In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.
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If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories."
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I don't know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.
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Well, I screwed it up real good, didn't I?
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Solutions are not the answer.
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I would have made a good pope.
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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. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity.
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I played by the rules of politics as I found them.
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So you are lean and mean and resourceful and you continue to walk on the edge of the precipice because over the years you have become fascinated by how close you can walk without losing your balance.
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You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.
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A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.
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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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A riot is a spontaneous outburst. A war is subject to advance planning.
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The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.
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By the time you get dressed, drive out there, play 18 holes and come home, you've blown seven hours. There are better things you can do with your time.
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Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.
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You've got to learn to survive a defeat. That's when you develop character.
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Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.
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