Richard M. Nixon

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    “A man who has never lost himself in a cause bigger than himself has missed one of life’s mountaintop experiences. Only in losing himself does he find himself. Only then does he discover all the latent strengths he never knew he had and which otherwise would have remained dormant.”
    —Richard M. Nixon (1913–1995)

    “Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.”
    —Richard M. Nixon (b. 1913)

    “I don’t know how you feel, professor, but I feel like a knife that’s just stabbed a friend in the back.”
    —Earl Felton, and Richard Fleischer. Ned Land (Kirk Douglas)

    “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.”
    —Richard M. Nixon (1913–1995)