When I retire I'm going to spend my evenings by the fireplace going through those boxes. There are things in there that ought to be burned.

We are not spending the Federal Government's money, we are spending the taxpayer's money, and it must be spent n a way which guarantees his money's worth and yields the fullest possible benefit to the people being helped.

Watergate had become the center of the media's universe, and during the remaining year of my presidency the media tried to force everything else to revolve around it.

The only way to achieve a practical, livable peace in a world of competing nations is to take the profit out of war.

In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.

Peace is a great goal, but it is not a panacea. Neither is material wealth.

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.