Richard M. Nixon Men Quotations

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

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.

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

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.

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

Nature is as wasteful of promising young men as she is of fish spawn.

Voters quickly forget what a man says.

With all the power that a president has, the most important thing to bear in mind is this: You must not give power to a man unless, above everything else, he has character. Character is the most important qualification the president of the United States can have.

A man who has never lost himself in a cause bigger than himself has missed one of life's mountaintop experiences. Only in losing himself does he find himself. Only then does he discover all the latent strengths he never knew he had and which otherwise would have remained dormant.

Neil and Buzz, I am talking to you by telephone from the Oval Office at the White House, and this certainly has to be the most historic telephone call ever made. . . . Because of what you have done, the heavens have become a part of man's world. As you talk to us from the Sea of Tranquility, it inspires us to redouble our efforts to bring peace and tranquility to Earth.

Any culture which can put a man on the Moon is capable of gathering all the nations of the earth in peace, justice and concord.

Until he has been part of a cause larger than himself, no man is truly whole.

The Soviet Union began by banishing God. The United States began as a community of people who wanted to worship God as they chose. . . Man does not live by bread alone. Those in the United States whose desire to create a strictly secular society is as strong as Lenin's was should study this Cold War lesson closely. Communism was defeated by an alliance spearheaded by 'one nation under God.'

Look at the Justice Department, it's full of Jews...The lawyers in government are damn Jews.

I'm not a lovable man.

Communism denies God, enslaves men, and destroys justice.

What a strange creature man is that he fouls his own nest.

In ancient days, men looked at stars and saw their heroes in the constellations. In modern times, we do much the same, but our heroes are epic men (and women) of flesh and blood.

Defeat doesn't finish a man - quit does.

The man of thought who will not act is ineffective; the man of action who will not think is dangerous.

I'll speak for the man, or against him, whichever will do him the most good.

You can't depend on the man who made the mess to clean it up.

A man isn't finnished when he is beaten he is finnished when he quits

'Environment' is not an abstract concern, or simply a matter of aesthetics, or of personal taste - although it can and should involve these as well. Man is shaped to a great extent by his surroundings. Our physical nature, our mental health, our culture and institutions, our opportunities for challenge and fulfillment, our very survival - all of these are directly related to and affected by the environment in which we live. They depend upon the continued healthy functioning of the natural systems of the Earth.

The recent upsurge of public concern over environmental questions reflects a belated recognition that man has been too cavalier in his relations with nature. Unless we arrest the depredations that have been inflicted so carelessly on our natural systems-which exist in an intricate set of balances-we face the prospect of ecological disaster.

Rarely have so many people been so wrong about so much.

Violence or the threat of violence [must] never be permitted to influence the actions or judgments of the university community. Once it does, the community, almost by definition, ceases to be a university. It is for this reason that from time immemorial expulsion has been the primary instrument of university discipline.

The student who invades an administration building, roughs up a dean, rifles the files and issues 'non-negotiable demands' may have some of his demands met by a permissive university administration. But the greater his 'victory' the more he will have undermined the security of his own rights.