We shall continue, in this era of negotiation, to work for the limitation of nuclear arms and to reduce the danger of confrontation between the great powers.
Richard M. NixonYet we can maintain a free society only if we recognize that in a free society no one can win all the time. No one can have his own way all the time, and no one is right all the time.
Richard M. NixonCommunism starts with the proposition that there are no universal truths or general truths of human nature.
Richard M. NixonNo event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.
Richard M. NixonThe Constitution supposes what the history of all governments demonstrates, that the executive is the branch of power most interested in war and most prone to it. It has accordingly with studied care, vested the question of war in the legislature. [If a president is successful in bypassing the Congress] it is evident that the people are cheated out of the best ingredients in the government, the safeguards of peace which is the greatest of their blessings.
Richard M. Nixon