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Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does.
Richard M. Nixon
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Richard M. Nixon
Age: 81 †
Born: 1913
Born: January 9
Died: 1994
Died: April 22
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I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. But as president I must put the interests of America first Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow.
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Communism starts with the proposition that there are no universal truths or general truths of human nature.
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My gravest secret is that I really did fake the moon landing. On Venus!
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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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Black Americans, no more than white Americans, they do not want more government programs which perpetuate dependency. They don't want to be a colony in a nation.
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The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.
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I wish I could give you a lot of advice, based on my experience of winning political debates. But I don't have that experience. My only experience is at losing them.
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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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The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.
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Any nation that decides the only way to achieve peace is through peaceful means is a nation that will soon be a piece of another nation.
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I was under medication when I made the decision to burn the tapes.
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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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They say it's the responsibility of the media to look at government - especially the President - with a microscope. I don't argue with that, but when they use a proctoscope, it's going too far.
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The color of communism was not red but gray.
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Those few days after Kent State were among the darkest of my presidency.
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