World Quotes by Richard M. Nixon

19 World quotes by Richard M. Nixon

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Nixon’s view of the world, filtered through his political career, offers a pragmatic and sometimes stark perspective. These 19 quotes reveal his take on power, policy, and the global stage.

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You find out who your true friends are not when you are on top of the world, but when the world is…

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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…

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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…

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To me, the most unhappy people in the world are the people ... in Palm Beach- Going to parties every night. Playing…

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If you think the United States has stood still, who built the largest shopping center in the world?

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The only way to achieve a practical, livable peace in a world of competing nations is to take the profit out of…

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This is the greatest week in the history of the world since the Creation, because as a result of what happened in…

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If, when the chips are down, the worlds most powerful nation, the United States of America, acts like a pitiful, helpless giant,…

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Neil and Buzz, I am talking to you by telephone from the Oval Office at the White House, and this certainly has…

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What we do with this peace-whether we preserve it and defend it, or whether we lose it and let it slip away-will…

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We, this nation of ours, could be the richest nation in the world. We could be the freest nation in the world…

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When the death of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt thrust him suddenly into the Presidency in April of 1945 at one of the…

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Let historians not record that when America was the most powerful nation in the world we passed on the other side of…

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The only time in the history of the world that we have had any extended periods of peace is when there has…

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The developing coherence of Asian regional thinking is reflected in a disposition to consider problems and loyalties in regional terms, and to…

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Let us build a structure of peace in the world in which the weak are as safe as the strong in…

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

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It has been said that Canada is bounded 'on the north by gold, on the west by the East, on the east…

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When the strongest nation in the world can be tied up for years in a war with no end in sight, when…

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I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. But as…

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With those who are willing to join, let us cooperate to reduce the burden of arms, to strengthen the structure of peace, to lift…

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

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Restoring nature to its natural state is a cause beyond party and beyond factions. It has become a common cause of all the people…

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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…

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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.

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History is a pathetic junkyard of broken treaties.

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I refuse to make a decision that somebody else can make. The first rule of leadership is to save yourself for the big decision.…

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

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I made my mistakes, but in all of my years in public life, I have never profited, never profited from public serviceI have earned…

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

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