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Richard M Nixon Inspirational Quotes (211)

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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.
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Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs.
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The memory of that scene for me is like a frame of film forever frozen at that moment: the red carpet, the green lawn, the white house, the leaden sky. The new president and his first lady.
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...we must strike a balance so that the protection of our irreplaceable heritage becomes as important as its use. The price of economic growth need not and will not be deterioration in the quality of our lives and our surroundings.
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Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.
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Idealism without realism is impotent. Realism without idealism is immoral.
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Since I have never one a debate let me tell you how not to lose one.
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Those who hate us only win if we hate them back
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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.
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Idealism without pragmatism is impotent. Pragmatism without idealism is meaningless. The key to effective leadership is pragmatic idealism.
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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.
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I don't know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.
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I have a theory, too, that the best and only answer to a smear or to an honest misunderstanding of the facts is to tell the truth
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Politics would be a helluva good business if it weren't for the goddamned people.
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Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.
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It's a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can't stop playing the game the way you've always played it.
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I think Congress has spent enough time on ethics. I think it's time they moved on to something else.
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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.
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Millions who endure poverty and bad government can now know what they are missing. To see how the other half lives all they have to do is switch on their television sets.
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I don't give a damn about the civilians.
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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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I was not lying. I said things that later on seemed to be untrue.
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My strong point, if I have a strong point, is performance. I always do more than I say. I always produce more than I promise.
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What are our schools for if not indoctrination against Communism?
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