Richard M. Nixon

“No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.”

“Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out.”

“By the time you get dressed, drive out there, play 18 holes and come home, you've blown seven hours. There are better things you can do with your time.”

“If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.”

“As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to the American people: Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible.”

“We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.”

“Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.”

“The Cold War isn't thawing it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn't sleeping it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting.”

“You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.”