Richard Nixon > Quotes

“Never forget that the press is the enemy. The establishment is the enemy. The professors are the enemy. Professors are the enemy. Write that on a blackboard 100 times and never forget it.”
― Richard Nixon

“To me, the unhappiest people in the world are those in the watering places, the international watering places like..uhhh..the south coast of France and Newport and Palm Springs and Palm Beach; going to parties every night, playing golf every afternoon, then bridge. Drinking too much, talking too much, thinking too little. Retired. No purpose.”
― Richard Nixon

“I found I had learned more from defeats than from victories. All that I wanted was a life in which I had just one more victory than defeat”
― Richard Nixon

“You gotta remember the smartest thing the Congress did was to limit the voters in this country. Out of 3 1/2 to 4 million people, 200,000 voted. And that was true for a helluva long time, and the republic would have never survived if all the dummies had voted along with the intelligent people.”
― Richard Nixon

“What?”
― Richard Nixon

“Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out.”
― Richard Nixon

“In these difficult years, America has suffered from a fever of words; from inflated rhetoric that promises more than it can deliver; from angry rhetoric that fans discontents into hatreds; from bombastic rhetoric that postures instead of persuading. 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 Nixon

“When information which properly belongs to the public is systematically withheld by those in power, the people soon become ignorant of their own affairs, distrustful of those who manage them and - eventually - incapable of determining their own destinies.”
― Richard Nixon

“the rate of increase of inflation is decreasing”
― Richard Nixon

“I can go into my office and pick up the telephone, and in 25 minutes 70 million people will be dead.”
― Richard Nixon

“Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.”
― Richard Nixon

“What”
― Richard Nixon

“I am now a Keynesian in economics.”
― Richard Nixon

“Nothing is more priceless and more worthy of preservation than the rich array of animal life with which our country has been blessed. It is a many-faceted treasure, of value to scholars, scientists and nature lovers alike, and it forms a vital part of the heritage we all share as Americans.”
― Richard Nixon

“Let America never accept being second best. You must have a goal greater than the self, either a nation or a person, or you can't be great.”
― Richard Nixon