Quotes 21 till 40 of 65.
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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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It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.
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It's a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can't stop playing the game the way you've always played it.
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Let each of us ask, not just what will government do for me, but what I can do for myself.
Speech 2e inaugural (1973) -
Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.
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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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Lyndon Johnson may have escalated the war, but when I was drafted and shipped off to Vietnam, the signature on my orders was Nixon's.
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Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.
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Nixon had some large achievements in foreign affairs. They will be remembered. But a president probably gets remembered for one thing, and Watergate will head the Nixon list, I suspect.
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Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket.
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Nixon's attempts to order subversion of various departments was bound to come out in some form.
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Nixon's grand mistake was his failure to understand that Americans are forgiving, and if he had admitted error early and apologized to the country, he would have escaped.
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North Vietnam cannot defeat or humiliate the United States. Only Americans can do that.
Address to the Nation on the War in Vietnam (3 november 1969) -
Not a season passes without new disclosures showing Nixon's numerous attempts at criminal use of his presidential powers and in fact the scorn he held for the rule of law.
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Once one determines that he or she has a mission in life, that's it's not going to be accomplished without a great deal of pain, and that the rewards in the end may not outweigh the pain -if you recognize historically that always happens, then when it comes, you survive it.
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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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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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People react to fear, not love - they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.
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Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency.
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