Richard M. Nixon Quotes

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

Anger, Angry, Impression

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.
Richard M. Nixon

Down, Give, Find

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

Best, Hate, Yourself

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

Music, Beautiful, Black

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

Defeat, Quit, Defeated

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

Mountain, Highest, Deepest

When the President does it, that means that it's not illegal.
Richard M. Nixon

Means, President, Illegal

A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.
Richard M. Nixon

Defeated, Finished, Quits

Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.
Richard M. Nixon

Hate, Yourself, May

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

Job, Woman, Political

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.
Richard M. Nixon

Great, Government, Today

Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.
Richard M. Nixon

Freedom, Patriotism, Passion

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.
Richard M. Nixon

Life, History, Crisis

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.
Richard M. Nixon

Good, Anger, Angry

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

Hate, Yourself, Win

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

Nation, Times, Direction

Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.
Richard M. Nixon

Change, Chaos, Interest

A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.
Richard M. Nixon

Forget, Rather, Public

I am not a crook.
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

Leader, Means, Individual

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.
Richard M. Nixon

History, Change, Religion

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

Around, Last, Won

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

Character, American, Permanent

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.
Richard M. Nixon

Fire, Through, Hottest

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

Experience, Political, Winning

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: President

Born: January 9, 1913

Died: April 22, 1994

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