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In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.

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Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here.

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Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don't ever apologize for anything.

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The President is always abused. If he isn't, he isn't doing anything.

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This administration is going to be cussed and discussed for years to come.

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You and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evils or none at all. So-I'm taking the immature Democrat as the best of the two. Nixon is impossible.

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Study men, not historians.

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You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.

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A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.

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The atom bomb was no 'great decision.' It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.

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A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants.

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Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he'd lie just to keep his hand in.

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You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.

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The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction.

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I remember when I first came to Washington. For the first six months you wonder how the hell you ever got here. For the next six months you wonder how the hell the rest of them ever got here.

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The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

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When you get to be President, there are all those things, the honors, the twenty-one gun salutes, all those things. You have to remember it isn't for you. It's for the Presidency.

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America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

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A president either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a moment.

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If you can't convince them, confuse them.

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I would rather have peace in the world than be President.

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A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

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I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount.

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All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.

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