The ultimate test of a nation's character is not how it responds to adversity in war but how it meets the challenge… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
I want to be sure...that nothing is done on these veterans. Is that understood?...Is the word out? That they are not to… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
The peace we seek in the world is not the flimsy peace which is merely an interlude between wars, but a peace… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
The only time in the history of the world that we have had any extended periods of peace is when there has… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share 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,… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to the American people: Your steadfastness… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
It is in that spirit, the spirit of '76, that I ask you to rise and join me in a toast to… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
A president can ask for reconciliation in the racial conflict that divides Americans. But reconciliation comes only from the hearts of people. — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
The only way to achieve a practical, livable peace in a world of competing nations is to take the profit out of… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
The only place you and I disagree is with regard to the bombing. You're so goddamned concerned about the civilians, and I… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now. — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
The lesson of all history warns us that we should negotiate only when our military superiority is so convincing that we can… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
The ability to be cool, confident, and decisive in crisis is not an inherited characteristic but is the direct result of how… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
You have my assurance that we will respond with full force should the settlement be violated by North Vietnam. — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
The Soviet Union began by banishing God. The United States began as a community of people who wanted to worship God as… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
Peace demands more, not less, from a people. Peace lacks the clarity of purpose and the cadence of war. War is scripted:… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
When the strongest nation in the world can be tied up for years in a war with no end in sight, when… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
The communists have lost the cold war, but the west has not yet won it. — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
What we do with this peace-whether we preserve it and defend it, or whether we lose it and let it slip away-will… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
We must never forget that if the war in Vietnam is lost ... the right of free speech will be extinguished throughout… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
A riot is a spontaneous outburst. A war is subject to advance planning. — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
You cannot win a battle in any arena merely by defending yourself. — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
I believe in the battle-whether it's the battle of a campaign or the battle of this office, which is a continuing battle. — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
No words can describe the depths of my regret and pain at the anguish my mistakes over Watergate have caused the nation… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. But as… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
With those who are willing to join, let us cooperate to reduce the burden of arms, to strengthen the structure of peace, to lift… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
I have earned every cent. And in all of my years of public life I have never obstructed justice, — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
Restoring nature to its natural state is a cause beyond party and beyond factions. It has become a common cause of all the people… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
What kind of nation we will be, what kind of world we will live in, whether we shape the future in the image of… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
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… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
The ultimate test of a nation's character is not how it responds to adversity in war but how it meets the challenge of peace. — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
I refuse to make a decision that somebody else can make. The first rule of leadership is to save yourself for the big decision.… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself. — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
I made my mistakes, but in all of my years in public life, I have never profited, never profited from public serviceI have earned… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
I know you heard what you thought I said, but what I said isn't what I meant. — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
