"Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out."
-Richard M. Nixon
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"We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.“
-Richard M. Nixon
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"If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together."
-Richard M. Nixon
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"No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now."
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"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."
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"In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars."
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"I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business."
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"What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long."
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"The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment."
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