Years Quotes by Richard M. Nixon

14 Years quotes by Richard M. Nixon

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Richard M. Nixon often measured the passage of time against political ambition. These 14 excerpts reveal his perspective on how years shape power, legacy, and personal resolve.

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Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should…

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For years politicians have promised the Moon. I'm the first one to be able to deliver it.

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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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The 1970s must be the years when America pays its debt to the past by reclaiming the purity of its air, its…

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Let me just say this, and I want to say this to the televison audience: I made my mistakes, but in all…

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The President wants me to argue that he is as powerful a monarch as Louis XIV, only four years at a time,…

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I would rather be a one-term President and do what I believe is right than to be a two-term President at the…

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I have the greatest affection for them but I know they're not going to make it for 500 years. They aren't. You…

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We still think of air as free. But clean air is not free, and neither is clean water. The price tag on…

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We have been through, over these years, some difficult times. During the period that I have served as President of the United…

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When I spoke at the St. Lawrence Seaway ceremonies in 1969, I borrowed some words from the monument there which I had…

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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…

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But above all, what this Congress can be remembered for is opening the way to a new American revolutiona peaceful revolution in…

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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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What kind of nation we will be, what kind of world we will live in, whether we shape the future in the image of…

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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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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,…

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

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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 which can…

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