Richard M. Nixon
Richard M. Nixon
Richard Milhous Nixonwas the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974 when he became the only U.S. president to resign the office. Nixon had previously served as a U.S. Representative and Senator from California and as the 36th Vice President of the United States from 1953 to 1961...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPresident
Date of Birth9 January 1913
CountryUnited States of America
religious war reality
In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.
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Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.
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If I had feelings, I probably wouldn’t have even survived.
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But more than anything else, we have learned that legal assistance for the poor, when properly provided, is one of the most constructive ways to help them help themselves.
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The man of thought who will not act is ineffective; the man of action who will not think is dangerous.
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Always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty.
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The true idealist pursues what his heart says is right in a way that his head says will work.
men doe quitting
Defeat doesn't finish a man - quit does.
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The lesson of all history warns us that we should negotiate only when our military superiority is so convincing that we can achieve our objective at the conference table, and deny the aggressor theirs.
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The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word "crisis." One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity.
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You've got to learn to survive a defeat. That's when you develop character.
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There is no such thing as a nonpolitical speech by a politician.
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You cannot win a battle in any arena merely by defending yourself.
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Once one determines that he or she has a mission in life, that's it's not going to be accomplished without a great deal of pain, and that the rewards in the end may not outweigh the pain -if you recognize historically that always happens, then when it comes, you survive it.