All through history it’s the nations that have given most to generals and the least to the people that have been the first to fall.
The President hears a hundred voices telling him that he is the greatest man in the world. He must listen carefully indeed to hear the one voice that tells him his is not.
It sure is hell to be president.
We have found that it is easier for men to die together on the field of battle than it is for them to live together at home in peace.
This generation, raised on “Eyewitness News,” conditioned by the instant replay, and spared the illumination that comes from tedious historical study, tends to be even more ahistorical than most.
The Marshall Plan will go down in history as one of America’s greatest contributions to the peace of the world.
It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace.
The atom bomb was no ‘great decision.’ It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.
It’s plain hokum. If you can’t convince ’em, confuse ’em. It’s an old political trick. But this time it won’t work.
When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.
The President is always abused. If he isn’t, he isn’t doing anything.
Whenever a fellow tells me he’s bipartisan, I know he’s going to vote against me.
I’ve said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America!
My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.
This administration is going to be cussed and discussed for years to come.
Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.
Always be sincere, even if you don’t mean it.
In my opinion eight years as president is enough and sometimes too much for any man to serve in that capacity.
If I hadn’t been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player in a bawdy house.
The White House is the finest prison in the world.