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I gave 'em a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I had been in their position, I'd have done the same thing.
Author: Richard Milhous Nixon
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You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe I'm innocent. If you don't, take my job.
Author: Richard Milhous Nixon
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I can take it... The tougher it gets, the cooler I get...
Author: Richard Milhous Nixon
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When the president does it, that means it is not illegal.
Author: Richard Milhous Nixon
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I've analyzed the best I can ... and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course.
Author: Richard Milhous Nixon
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We are all in it together. This is a war. We take a few shots and it will be over. We will give them a few shots and it will be over.
Author: Richard Milhous Nixon
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While technically I did not commit a crime, an impeachable offense... these are legalisms, as far as the handling of this matter is concerned; it was so botched up, I made so many bad judgments. The worst ones, mistakes of the heart, rather than the head. But let me say, a man in that top job - he's got to have a heart, but his head must always rule his heart.
Author: Richard Milhous Nixon
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Well, I'm not a crook.
Author: Richard Milhous Nixon
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I hereby resign this office of president of the United States.
Author: Richard Milhous Nixon
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A man is not finished when he's defeated; he's finished when he quits.
Author: Richard Milhous Nixon
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Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out.
Author: Richard Milhous Nixon
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I have impeached myself by resigning.
Author: Richard Milhous Nixon
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Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
Author: Harry Shearer
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There is no such thing as justice--in or out of court.
Author: Clarence Darrow
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It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.
Author: Georges Courteline
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It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world -- it's the American way of looking at things.
Author: Henry Miller
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Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
Author: J. Bartlett Brebner
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The wealth and prosperity of the country are only the comeliness of the body, the fullness of the flesh and fat; but the spirit is independent of them; it requires only muscle, bone and nerve for the true exercise of its functions. We cannot lose our liberty, because we cannot cease to think.
Author: Sir Humphrey Davy
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The fellow who says he'll meet you halfway usually thinks he's standing on the dividing line.
Author: Orlando A. Battista
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If there were a verb meaning "to believe falsely," it would not have any significant first person, present indicative.
Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein
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When authorities warn you of the sinfulness of sex, there is an important lesson to be learned. Do not have sex with the authorities.
Author: Matt Groening
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Did you ever hear anyone say "That work had better be banned because I might read it and it might be very dangerous to me?
Author: Joseph Henry Jackson
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Necessity is the plea of every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
Author: William Pitt
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When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
Author: P.j. O'rourke
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You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.
Author: Lyndon Johnson
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What is hateful to thyself do not do to another. That is the whole Law, the rest is Commentary.
Author: Hillel
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Never befriend the oppressed unless you are prepared to take on the oppressor.
Author: Ogden Nash
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Political scientists almost everywhere have promoted the expansion of government power. They have functioned as the clergy of oppression.
Author: Rudolph Rummel
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A politician will always tip off his true belief by stating the opposite at the beginning of the sentence. For maximum comprehension, do not start listening until the first clause is concluded. Begin instead at the word "but" which begins the second, or active, clause. This is the way to tell a liberal from a conservative -- before they tell you. Thus: "I have always believed in a strong national defense, second to none, but ... " (a liberal, about to propose a $20 billion defense cut).
Author: Frank Mankiewicz
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All revolutions...have been led by persons who knew oppression well, but not on their own skin.
Author: Primo Levi
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The right to be let alone is the underlying principle of the Constitution's Bill of Rights.
Author: Erwin N. Griswold
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...there is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.
Author: Dwight Eisenhower
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The profoundest truth of war is that the issue of battle is usually decided in the minds of the opposing commanders, not in the bodies of their men.
Author: B.h. Liddell Hart
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I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
Author: Fred Allen
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We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing, and what a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while actually producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.
Author: Dave Barry
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I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
Author: Bobcat Goldthwait
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Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
Author: Ronald Reagan
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Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell.
Author: Frank Borman
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A good cause can become bad if we fight for it with means that are indiscriminately murderous. A bad cause can become good if enough people fight for it in a spirit of comradeship and self-sacrifice. In the end it is how you fight, as much as why you fight, that makes your cause good or bad.
Author: Freeman Dyson
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Oh! Duty is an icy shadow. It will freeze you. It cannot fill the heart's sanctuary.
Author: Augusta Jane Evans
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What is possible is our highest duty.
Author: William E. Mclaren
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There is nothing an economist should fear so much as applause.
Author: Herbert Marshall
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It is possible to lead astray an entire generation, to strike it blind, to drive it insane, to direct it towards a false goal. Napoleon proved this.
Author: Alexander Herzen
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Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Author: Lord Acton
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Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.
Author: Kahlil Gibran
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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
Author: Thomas Hobbes
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The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.
Author: Herbert Hoover
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Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
Author: Henry A. Kissinger
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The people who cast the votes don't decide an election, the people who count the votes do.
Author: Joseph Stalin
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He has been called a mediocre man; but this is unwarranted flattery. He was a politician of monumental littleness.
Author: Theodore Roosevelt
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