Richard M. Nixon Quotes About Peace

Quotes about: Peace

• Any nation that decides the only way to achieve peace is through peaceful means is a nation that will soon be a piece of another nation.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Peace, Mean, Pieces

  "No More Vietnams". Book by Richard M. Nixon, 1985.

• The peace we seek in the world is not the flimsy peace which is merely an interlude between wars, but a peace which can endure for generations to come. It is important that we understand both the necessity and the limitations of America's role in maintaining that peace. Unless we in America work to preserve the peace, there will be no peace. Unless we in America work to preserve freedom, there will be no freedom.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Peace, War, America

  Second Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1973

• It is not enough just to be for peace. The point is, what can we do about it?

  Richard M. Nixon

  Peace, Enough

  Interview with C. L. Sulzberger in The New York Times (p. 14), March 8, 1971.

• Let historians not record that when America was the most powerful nation in the world we passed on the other side of the road and allowed the last hopes for peace and freedom of millions of people to be suffocated by the forces of totalitarianism. And so tonightto you, the great silent majority of my fellow AmericansI ask for your support.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Peace, Powerful, America

  Address to the Nation on VietnamWar, 3 Nov. 1969. The term silent majority is found as early as 1870, when the Economist (19 Nov.) referred to "the silent majority which so seldom appears at the polls." See Petronius 2; Edward Young 1

• But above all, what this Congress can be remembered for is opening the way to a new American revolutiona peaceful revolution in which power was turned back to the peoplein which government at all levels was refreshed and renewed and made truly responsive. This can be a revolution as profound, as far-reaching, as exciting as that first revolution almost 200 years agoand it can mean that just 5 years from now America will enter its third century as a young nation new in spirit, with all the vigor and the freshness with which it began its first century.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Peace, Mean, America

• While might certainly does not make right, neither does right by itself make might.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Peace, War, Doe

• The greatest honor history can bestow is the title of peacemaker.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Peace, Patriotic, Honor

  "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1969".

• Because of the realities of human nature, perfect peace is achieved in two places only: in the grave and at the typewriter.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Peace, Reality, Typewriters

• Peace demands more, not less, from a people. Peace lacks the clarity of purpose and the cadence of war. War is scripted: peace is improvisation.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Peace, War, Clarity Of Purpose

• Let us build a structure of peace in the world in which the weak are as safe as the strong — in which each respects the right of the other to live by a different system — in which those who would influence others will do so by the strength of their ideas, and not by the force of their arms. Let us accept that high responsibility not as a burden, but gladly — gladly because the chance to build such a peace is the noblest endeavor in which a nation can engage.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Peace, Strong, Responsibility

  Second Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1973

• The lesson of all history warns us that we should negotiate only when our military superiority is so convincing that we can achieve our objective at the conference table, and deny the aggressor theirs.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Peace, Military, War

• Jesus this song you wrote The words are sticking in my throat Peace on Earth Hear it every Christmas time But hope and history won't rhyme So what's it worth? This peace on Earth

  Richard M. Nixon

  Song, Jesus, Peace

• My telephone calls and meetings and decisions were now parts of a prescribed ritual aimed at making peace with the past; his calls, his meetings and his decisions were already the ones that would shape America's future." (On transfer of power to Gerald R Ford)

  Richard M. Nixon

  Art, Peace, Reading

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