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There is no such thing as a nonpolitical speech by a politician.
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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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.
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If you think the United States has stood still, who built the largest shopping center in the world?
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The great question of the seventies is, shall we surrender to our surroundings, or shall we make our peace with nature and begin to make reparations for the damage we have done to our air, to our land, and to our water?
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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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We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.
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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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What a strange creature man is that he fouls his own nest.
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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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The color of communism was not red but gray.
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I seriously doubt if we will ever have another war. This is probably the very last one.
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We don't owe the blacks a damn thing, anyway.
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Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top - or on the bottom. I guess I'm something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things... Life is one crisis after another.
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It is not enough just to be for peace. The point is, what can we do about it?
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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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The three most difficult words to speak are, I was wrong.
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The time has come for us to draw the line. The time has come for the responsible leaders of both political parties to take a stand against overgrown Government and for the American taxpayer.
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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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The ability to be cool, confident, and decisive in crisis is not an inherited characteristic but is the direct result of how well the individual has prepared himself for the battle.
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In ancient days, men looked at stars and saw their heroes in the constellations. In modern times, we do much the same, but our heroes are epic men of flesh and blood.
Richard M. Nixon
The student who invades an administration building, roughs up a dean, rifles the files and issues 'non-negotiable demands' may have some of his demands met by a permissive university administration. But the greater his 'victory' the more he will have undermined the security of his own rights.
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