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Portrait of Spiro T. Agnew

Spiro T. Agnew

(1918–1996) Politician

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Spiro T. Agnew was a politician, best known for Frankly speaking.

Quick Facts About Spiro T. Agnew

Born: November 9, 1918
Died: September 17, 1996
Profession: Politician
Notable works: Frankly speaking

About Spiro T. Agnew

Spiro Theodore Agnew was the 39th vice president of the United States, serving from 1969 until his resignation in 1973 under President Richard Nixon. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the 3rd executive of Baltimore County from 1962 to 1966 and the 55th governor of Maryland from 1967 to 1969. He is the second of two vice presidents to resign, the first being John C. Calhoun in 1832.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Spiro T. Agnew

You can't hit my team in the groin and expect me to smile about it.

Team

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Nixon's own protection from the assassin's bullet... nattering nabobs of negativism.

Assassins

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The student now goes to college to proclaim rather than to learn. A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete…

College

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Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans; fools…

Able

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In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism. They have formed their own…

Clubs

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If a theology student in lowa should get up at a PTA luncheon in Sioux City and attack the President's military policy,…

Cities

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... vicars of vacillation ...

Inspirational

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An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.

Bike

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I am not asking for government censorship or any other kind of censorship. I am asking whether a kind of censorship already…

Asking

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Some of the politicians in this country, in their feverish search for group acceptance, are ready to endorse tumultuous confrontation as a…

Acceptance

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A raised eyebrow, an inflection of the voice, a caustic remark dropped in the middle of a broadcast can raise doubts in…

Caustic

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Listening to Democrats complain about inflation is like listening to germs complain about disease.

Complaining

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Ultraliberalism today translates into a whimpering isolationism in foreign policy, a mulish obstructionism in domestic policy.

Domestic policy

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Some newspapers dispose of their garbage by printing it.

Garbage

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The United States, for all its faults, is till the greatest nation in the country.

Country

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In the networks' endless pursuit of controversy, we should ask what is the end value ... to enlighten or to profit? What…

Action

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The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.

Antagonism

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Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.

American people

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Freedom of speech is useless without freedom of thought.

Communication

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One modest suggestion for my friends in the academic community: the next time a mob of students, waving their non-negotiable demands, starts…

Academic

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If you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.

Cities

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Bad news drives out good news. The irrational is more controversial than the rational. Concurrence can no longer compete with dissent. One…

Bad news

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This is the criminal left that belongs not in a dormitory, but in a penitentiary. The criminal left is not a problem…

Black

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A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.

Fraternity

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I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.

Apologizing

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