Richard M. Nixon

Once you get into this great stream of history, you can’t get out.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

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

Life isn’t meant to be easy. It’s hard to take being on the top – or on the bottom. I guess I’m something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things… Life is one crisis after another.

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.

It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.

I can see clearly now… that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.

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.