Richard Nixon

I am not a saint, and I have my faults. But I have tried to do what is right for America.

The American dream does not come to those who fall asleep.

I would have been a good President for the country, but I was not a good President for the media.

The true test of a man is not how he behaves in moments of comfort and convenience, but how he stands at times of controversy and challenge.

I don't think you can be a great President unless you have a certain ruthlessness.

The greatest honor that can be bestowed upon any man is to be called upon to serve his country.

I'm not going to let them break me.

The very fact that I am hated by some people is a sign that I am doing something right.

I came to the White House to change the world, and I did.

The only sure way to avoid making mistakes is to have no new ideas.

I understand the press. They're an enemy. They're trying to get me.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

I've always thought that if you want to be successful, you have to be willing to take risks.

The average man is a conformist, but the creative man is a non-conformist.

I don't give a damn what the polls say. I'm going to do what I think is right.

The Presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.

I refuse to be a political corpse.

The greatest honor that history can bestow is the title of peacemaker. This honor now belongs to America, for achieving peace with honor in Vietnam.

I'll do anything to win. Anything.

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.