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Let me just say this, and I want to say this to the televison audience: I made my mistakes, but in all of my years of public life, I have never profited, never profited from public service

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Richard M. Nixon
Age: 81 †
Born: 1913
Born: January 9
Died: 1994
Died: April 22
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Because of the realities of human nature, perfect peace is achieved in two places only: in the grave and at the typewriter.
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Mr. Stevenson has a degree alright-a PhD from the Acheson College of Cowardly Communist Containment.
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If in order to avoid further Communist expansion in Asia and particularly in Indo-China, if in order to avoid it we must take the risk by putting American boys in, I believe that the executive branch of the government has to take the politically unpopular position of facing up to it and doing it, and I personally would support such a decision.
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Peace demands more, not less, from a people. Peace lacks the clarity of purpose and the cadence of war. War is scripted: peace is improvisation.
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As you know, the separation of church and state is not subject to discussion or alteration. Under our Constitution no church or religion can be supported by the U.S. Government. We maintain freedom of religion so that an American can either worship in the church of his choice or choose to go to no church at all.
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Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don't care what they say, they like it.
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What kind of nation we will be, what kind of world we will live in, whether we shape the future in the image of our hopes, is ours to determine by our actions and our choices.
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My gravest secret is that I really did fake the moon landing. On Venus!
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Peace is the real and right memorial for those who have died in war.
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Television in its present form...[is] the opiate of the people of the United States.
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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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The communists have lost the cold war, but the west has not yet won it.
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I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.
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President Johnson and I have a lot in common. We were both born in small towns and we're both fortunate in the fact that we think we married above ourselves.
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I don't know a lot about politics, but I know a lot about baseball.
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You have to face the fact that the whole problem is really the blacks. The key is to devise a system that recognizes this all while not appearing to.
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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 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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We must never forget that if the war in Vietnam is lost ... the right of free speech will be extinguished throughout the world.
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Castro couldn't even go to the bathroom unless the Soviet Union put the nickel in the toilet.
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