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“When I retire I'm going to spend my evenings by the fireplace going through those boxes. There are things in there that ought to be burned.” quote by Richard M. Nixon — Download Open image

“When I retire I'm going to spend my evenings by the fireplace going through those boxes. There are things in there that ought to be burned.”

Richard M. Nixon

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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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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 every cent. And in all of my years of public life, I have never obstructed justice. And I think, too, that I could say that in my years of public life, that I welcome this kind…

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