It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.
some smart alecs of those days after World War I used to say: "The French fought for liberty, the British fought to control the seas, but the Americans fought for souvenirs.
The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.
I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.
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.
The reward of suffering is experience.
Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.
The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.
America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.
We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.
Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.
Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here.
The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's.
There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.
Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.
My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.
Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.
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.