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When I am the candidate, I run the campaign.
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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While might certainly does not make right, neither does right by itself make might.
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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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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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As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to the American people: Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible.
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The man of thought who will not act is ineffective the man of action who will not think is dangerous.
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Now that all the members of the press are so delighted I lost, I'd like to make a statement. As I leave you I want you to know -just think how much you'll be missing. You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference.
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The bastards have never been bombed like they're going to be bombed this time.
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Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.
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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.
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A politician knows that his friends are not always his allies, and that his adversaries are not always his enemies.
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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.
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Peace is a great goal, but it is not a panacea. Neither is material wealth.
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Yes, I wish I'd done it sooner.
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Publicly, we say one thing....Actually, we do another.
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