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" I remember when I first came to Washington. For the first six months you wonder how the hell you ever got here. For the next six months you wonder how the hell the rest of them ever got here. "

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" I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell. "

" I would rather have peace in the world than be President. "

" Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here. "

" The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's. "

" I have no desire to crow over anybody or to see anybody eating crow, figuratively or otherwise. We should all get together and make a country in which everybody can eat turkey whenever he pleases. "

" In my opinion eight years as president is enough and sometimes too much for any man to serve in that capacity. "

" It's plain hokum. If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em. It's an old political trick. But this time it won't work. "

" I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it. "

" I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount. "

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" A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties. "

" A President cannot always be popular. "

" Washington is a very easy city for you to forget where you came from and why you got there in the first place. "

" The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction. "

" America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand. "

" You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog. "

" This administration is going to be cussed and discussed for years to come. "

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" Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination. "

" Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides. "

" A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years. "

" All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it. "

" I've said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America! "

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" Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought. "

" I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell. "