Richard M. Nixon

You've got to learn to survive a defeat. That's when you develop character.

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.

Politics would be a helluva good business if it weren't for the goddamned people.

Deep down, there is in the substance of the cosmos a primordial disposition, sui generis, for self-arrangement and self-involution.

If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!

The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.