If you can't convince them, confuse them.
But we are only termites on a planet and maybe when we bore too deeply into the planet there'll be a reckoning. Who knows?
Upon books the collective education of the race depends they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.
A President cannot always be popular.
America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.
The atom bomb was no 'great decision.' It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.
You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.
Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
Within the first few months I discovered that being a president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or be swallowed.
Harricum! Harricum! Give 'em hell Harricum!
A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.
A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years.
My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.
I would rather have peace in the world than be President.
You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.
Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.
When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.
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.