We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another - until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.

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Learn Speak Word Quiet

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I gave 'em a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I had been in their position, I'd have done the same thing.

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Been Done Gave Guess

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Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

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Always Best Destroy Discouraged

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Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.

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Defeat Defeated Does Finish

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The Cold War isn't thawing; it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn't sleeping; it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting.

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Always Burning Cold Cold War

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We are not spending the Federal Government's money, we are spending the taxpayer's money, and it must be spent n a way which guarantees his money's worth and yields the fullest possible benefit to the people being helped.

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Being Benefit Federal Fullest

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What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.

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Anger Attitudes Change Deep

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

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Destroy Hate Them Then

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If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.

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Beautiful Beautiful Music Black Make

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Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out.

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Get Great History Once

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I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.

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Acting Clearly Dealing I Can

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I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get.

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Cooler Get Gets I Can

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It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.

Richard M. Nixon

Beat Establish Image Me

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There will be no whitewash in the White House.

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House White White House Will

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If I were to make public these tapes, containing blunt and candid remarks on many different subjects, the confidentiality of the office of the president would always be suspect.

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Always Blunt Candid Confidentiality

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People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I earned everything I've got.

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Crook Earned Everything Got

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Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs.

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Advice Cannot Get Gets

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It's a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can't stop playing the game the way you've always played it.

Richard M. Nixon

Always Cake Find Game

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No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.

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American American History Event History

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Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don't care what they say, they like it.

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Any Being Care Don't Care

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If an individual wants to be a leader and isn't controversial, that means he never stood for anything.

Richard M. Nixon

Anything Controversial He Individual

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I wish I could give you a lot of advice, based on my experience of winning political debates. But I don't have that experience. My only experience is at losing them.

Richard M. Nixon

Advice Based Could Debates

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Our chief justices have probably had more profound and lasting influence on their times and on the direction of the nation than most presidents.

Richard M. Nixon

Chief Direction Had Influence

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A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.

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Defeated Finished He Man

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You've got to learn to survive a defeat. That's when you develop character.

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Character Defeat Develop Got

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You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference.

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Anymore Around Because Conference

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The American people are entitled to see the president and to hear his views directly, and not to see him only through the press.

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American American People Directly Entitled

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Don't get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.

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Anger Angry Arouse Get

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I've never canceled a subscription to a newspaper because of bad cartoons or editorials. If that were the case, I wouldn't have any newspapers or magazines to read.

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Any Bad Because Cartoons

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In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.

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Age Between Candidate Distinction

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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 be able to do any political job that a man can do.

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Able Any Certainly Job

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My concern today is not with the length of a person's hair but with his conduct.

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Concern Conduct Hair His

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If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished.

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American Character Handout Impoverished

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My strong point, if I have a strong point, is performance. I always do more than I say. I always produce more than I promise.

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Always More Performance Point

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The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.

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Boredom Least Many Presidency

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As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to the American people: Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible.

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Address American AmericanPeople Difficult

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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 president I must put the interests of America first Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow.

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America Been Before Body

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The memory of that scene for me is like a frame of film forever frozen at that moment: the red carpet, the green lawn, the white house, the leaden sky. The new president and his first lady.

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Carpet Film First First Lady

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President Johnson and I have a lot in common. We were both born in small towns and we're both fortunate in the fact that we think we married above ourselves.

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Above Born Both Common

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There are some people, you know, they think the way to be a big man is to shout and stomp and raise hell-and then nothing ever really happens. I'm not like that I never shoot blanks.

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Big Blanks Ever Happens

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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

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Finest Fire Go Hottest

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Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

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Another Another Way Down Find

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We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.

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Application Deduction Direct Inference

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Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

Richard M. Nixon

Afterwards Always Anyhow Ask

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Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.

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Dishonest Government Local Local Government

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Forget Man Quickly Says

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You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.

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About Anger Angry Get

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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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Built Center Largest Shopping

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We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.

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Always America Another Because

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Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top - or on the bottom. I guess I'm something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things... Life is one crisis after another.

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After Another Being Bottom

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"63 Richard M. Nixon Quotes & Sayings

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another - until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.

Richard M. Nixon

I gave 'em a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I had been in their position, I'd have done the same thing.

Richard M. Nixon

Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

Richard M. Nixon

Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.

Richard M. Nixon

The Cold War isn't thawing; it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn't sleeping; it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting.

Richard M. Nixon

We are not spending the Federal Government's money, we are spending the taxpayer's money, and it must be spent n a way which guarantees his money's worth and yields the fullest possible benefit to the people being helped.

Richard M. Nixon

What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.

Richard M. Nixon

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

Richard M. Nixon

Richard M. Nixon

Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out.

Richard M. Nixon

I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.

Richard M. Nixon

Richard M. Nixon

It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.

Richard M. Nixon

Richard M. Nixon

If I were to make public these tapes, containing blunt and candid remarks on many different subjects, the confidentiality of the office of the president would always be suspect.

Richard M. Nixon

People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I earned everything I've got.

Richard M. Nixon

Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs.

Richard M. Nixon

It's a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can't stop playing the game the way you've always played it.

Richard M. Nixon

No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.

Richard M. Nixon

Richard M. Nixon

If an individual wants to be a leader and isn't controversial, that means he never stood for anything.

Richard M. Nixon

I wish I could give you a lot of advice, based on my experience of winning political debates. But I don't have that experience. My only experience is at losing them.

Richard M. Nixon

Our chief justices have probably had more profound and lasting influence on their times and on the direction of the nation than most presidents.

Richard M. Nixon

A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.

Richard M. Nixon

Richard M. Nixon

You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference.

Richard M. Nixon

The American people are entitled to see the president and to hear his views directly, and not to see him only through the press.

Richard M. Nixon

Don't get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.

Richard M. Nixon

I've never canceled a subscription to a newspaper because of bad cartoons or editorials. If that were the case, I wouldn't have any newspapers or magazines to read.

Richard M. Nixon

In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.

Richard M. Nixon

Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do.

Richard M. Nixon

My concern today is not with the length of a person's hair but with his conduct.

Richard M. Nixon

If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished.

Richard M. Nixon

My strong point, if I have a strong point, is performance. I always do more than I say. I always produce more than I promise.

Richard M. Nixon

The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.

Richard M. Nixon

As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to the American people: Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible.

Richard M. Nixon

I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. But as president I must put the interests of America first Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow.

Richard M. Nixon

The memory of that scene for me is like a frame of film forever frozen at that moment: the red carpet, the green lawn, the white house, the leaden sky. The new president and his first lady.

Richard M. Nixon

President Johnson and I have a lot in common. We were both born in small towns and we're both fortunate in the fact that we think we married above ourselves.

Richard M. Nixon

There are some people, you know, they think the way to be a big man is to shout and stomp and raise hell-and then nothing ever really happens. I'm not like that I never shoot blanks.

Richard M. Nixon