If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished.
Richard M. NixonThe answer to many of the domestic problems we face is not higher taxes and more spending. It is less waste, more results and greater freedom for the individual American to earn a rightful place in his own community - and for States and localities to address their own needs in their own ways, in the light of their own priorities.
Richard M. NixonDon't get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.
Richard M. NixonThe Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word "crisis." One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity.
Richard M. NixonLet historians not record that when America was the most powerful nation in the world we passed on the other side of the road and allowed the last hopes for peace and freedom of millions of people to be suffocated by the forces of totalitarianism. And so tonightto you, the great silent majority of my fellow AmericansI ask for your support.
Richard M. Nixon