Richard M. Nixon Presidential Quotations

Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.

You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference.

As you know, the separation of church and state is not subject to discussion or alteration. Under our Constitution no church or religion can be supported by the U.S. Government. We maintain freedom of religion so that an American can either worship in the church of his choice or choose to go to no church at all.

You don't know how to lie. If you can't lie, you'll never go anywhere.

It has been said that Canada is bounded 'on the north by gold, on the west by the East, on the east by history - and on the south by friends'.* We hope that will always be the case and we hope it will be the case not only with respect to the United States, your immediate neighbor to the south, but with respect to all your southern neighbors - and ours - who are bound by the great forces of geography and history which are distinctive to the New World.

For among nations - as within nations - the soundest unity is that which respects diversity, and the strongest cohesion is that which rejects coercion.

Our peaceful borders and our peaceful history are important symbols, to be sure. What they symbolize, however, is the spirit of respect and restraint which allow us to cooperate, despite our differences, in way which help us both.

You know very well that whether you are on page one or page thirty depends on whether they fear you. It's as simple as that.

I like the job I have, but if I had to live my life over again, I would like to have ended up a sports writer.

What kind of nation we will be, what kind of world we will live in, whether we shape the future in the image of our hopes, is ours to determine by our actions and our choices.

Bring us together again.

The great silent majority.