Quote

Let us remember that the main purpose of American aid is not to help other nations, but to help ourselves.

Richard M. Nixon

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Richard M. Nixon
Age: 81 †
Born: 1913
Born: January 9
Died: 1994
Died: April 22
Autobiographer
Lawyer
Military Officer
Politician
President
Statesperson
Yorba Linda
California
Richard Milhous Nixon
Nixon
President Nixon
Dick Nixon
Tricky Dick
R. Nixon
R. M. Nixon
Richard M. Nixon
Nations
Help
American
Purpose
Helping
Remember
Aids
Main

More quotes by Richard M. Nixon

Image
The only place you and I disagree is with regard to the bombing. You're so goddamned concerned about the civilians, and I (in contrast) don't give a damn. I don't care.. . . I'd rather use the nuclear bomb. . . Does that bother you? I just want you to think big.
Richard M. Nixon
Image
Maybe New York shouldn't survive. Maybe it should go through a cycle of destruction.
Richard M. Nixon
Image
The Italians . . . you can't find one who is honest.
Richard M. Nixon
Image
Lyndon Johnson rose above the doubt and fear to hold this Nation on course until we rediscovered our faith in ourselves.
Richard M. Nixon
Image
Publicly, we say one thing....Actually, we do another.
Richard M. Nixon
Image
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.
Richard M. Nixon
Image
In his heart everyone knows that the only people who get rich from the get rich quick books are those who write them.
Richard M. Nixon
Image
If I had feelings, I probably wouldn’t have even survived.
Richard M. Nixon
Image
While might certainly does not make right, neither does right by itself make might.
Richard M. Nixon
Image
The bastards have never been bombed like they're going to be bombed this time.
Richard M. Nixon
Image
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.
Richard M. Nixon
Image
I don't think a woman should be in any government job whatever. I mean, I really don't. The reason why I do is mainly because they are erratic and emotional.
Richard M. Nixon
Image
You cannot win a battle in any arena merely by defending yourself.
Richard M. Nixon
Image
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.
Richard M. Nixon
Image
If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
Richard M. Nixon
Image
We must never forget that if the war in Vietnam is lost ... the right of free speech will be extinguished throughout the world.
Richard M. Nixon
Image
I have earned every cent. And in all of my years of public life I have never obstructed justice.
Richard M. Nixon
Image
We don't owe the blacks a damn thing, anyway.
Richard M. Nixon
Image
The Cold War isn't thawing it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn't sleeping it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting.
Richard M. Nixon
Image
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.
Richard M. Nixon