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Richard M. Nixon
Age: 81 †
Born: 1913
Born: January 9
Died: 1994
Died: April 22
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If you are ever going to lie, you go to jail for the lie rather than the crime. So believe me, don't ever lie.
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I don't know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.
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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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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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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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Idealism without realism is impotent. Realism without idealism is immoral.
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This Memorial Day should remind us of the greatness that past generations of Americans achieved from Valley Forge to Vietnam, and it should inspire us with the determination to keep America great and free by keeping America safe and strong in our own time, a time of unique destiny and opportunity for our Nation.
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Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government.
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I'm not a crook. I've earned everything I've got.
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My gravest secret is that I really did fake the moon landing. On Venus!
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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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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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Your mind must always go, even while you're shaking hands and going through all the maneuvers. I developed the ability long ago to do one thing while thinking about another.
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Screw State! State's always on the side of the blacks. The hell with them!
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You can't depend on the man who made the mess to clean it up.
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For one priceless moment in the whole history of man, all of the people on this earth are truly one. One in their pride at what you have done, one in our prayers that you will return safely to earth.
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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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I believe in building bridges, but we should only build our end of the bridge.
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The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech.
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