Skip to content

War Quotes by Richard M. Nixon

41 War quotes by Richard M. Nixon

All War quotes Richard M. Nixon’s page

The ultimate test of a nation's character is how it handles peace, not just war. The quotes say that a lasting peace needs a balance of power and that making profit from war prevents true stability. They also note that reconciliation must come from people's hearts.

Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet

Yes, I wish I'd done it sooner.

Richard M. Nixon

Image

There can be no whitewash at the White House.

Richard M. Nixon

Image

I'm not going to be the first American president to lose a war.

Richard M. Nixon

Image

While might certainly does not make right, neither does right by itself make might.

Richard M. Nixon

Image

You cannot win a battle in any arena merely by defending yourself.

Richard M. Nixon

Image

Peace is the real and right memorial for those who have died in war.

Richard M. Nixon

Image

Mr. Stevenson has a degree alright-a PhD from the Acheson College of Cowardly Communist Containment.

Richard M. Nixon

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

Image

You have my assurance that we will respond with full force should the settlement be violated by North Vietnam.

Richard M. Nixon

Image

I seriously doubt if we will ever have another war. This is probably the very last one.

Richard M. Nixon

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

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

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

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

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

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

Image

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

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

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

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

Image

The Constitution supposes what the history of all governments demonstrates, that the executive is the branch of power most interested in war…

Richard M. Nixon

Image

If in order to avoid further Communist expansion in Asia and particularly in Indo-China, if in order to avoid it we must…

Richard M. Nixon

Image

The easiest period in a crisis situation is actually the battle itself. The most difficult is the period of indecision - whether…

Richard M. Nixon

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

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

Image

Before we become too arrogant with the most deadly of the seven deadly sins, the sin of pride, let us remember that…

Richard M. Nixon

Image

“If America loses World War III [the Cold War], it will be because of the failure of its leadership class. In particular,…

Richard M. Nixon

Image

The communists have lost the cold war, but the west has not yet won it.

Richard M. Nixon

Image

A riot is a spontaneous outburst. A war is subject to advance planning.

Richard M. Nixon

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

Image

[Peter] Drucker says that modern government can do only two things well: wage war and inflate the currency. Its the aim of…

Richard M. Nixon

Image

But also out here in this dreary, difficult war, I think history will record that this may have been one of Americas…

Richard M. Nixon

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

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

Image

In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not…

Richard M. Nixon

Image

Never has so much military and economic and diplomatic power been used so ineffectively, and if after all of this time, and…

Richard M. Nixon

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

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

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

Image

The events that followed our withdrawal from Vietnam, including the plight of the boat people and the more than 1 million slaughtered…

Richard M. Nixon

Image

Other authors on War

More by Richard M. Nixon

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

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

I have earned every cent. And in all of my years of public life I have never obstructed justice,

Richard M. Nixon

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

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

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

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

History is a pathetic junkyard of broken treaties.

Richard M. Nixon

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

Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.

Richard M. Nixon

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

I know you heard what you thought I said, but what I said isn't what I meant.

Richard M. Nixon

I want to be sure...that nothing is done on these veterans. Is that understood?...Is the word out? That they are not to touch em,…

Richard M. Nixon

“Nations not possessing great power can indulge in the luxury of criticism of others; those possessing it have the responsibility of decision. Faced with…

Richard M. Nixon

The peace we seek in the world is not the flimsy peace which is merely an interlude between wars, but a peace which can…

Richard M. Nixon