Richard M. Nixon Quotes About Purpose

Quotes about: Purpose

• To me, the most unhappy people in the world are the people ... in Palm Beach- Going to parties every night. Playing golf every afternoon, then bridge. [They have] no purpose.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Beach, Party, Golf

• When I spoke at the St. Lawrence Seaway ceremonies in 1969, I borrowed some words from the monument there which I had joined Queen Elizabeth in dedicating just 10 years before. That monument, as its inscription puts it, 'bears witness to the common purpose of two nations whose frontiers are the frontiers of friendship, whose ways are the ways of freedom, whose works are the works of peace'.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Queens, Two, Common Purpose

• My own view is that taping of conversations for historical purposes was a bad decision on the part of all the presidents. I don't think Kennedy should have done it. I don't think Johnson should have done it, and I don't think we should have done it.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Thinking, Views, Should Have

• 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 remember that the main purpose of American aid is not to help other nations, but to help ourselves.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Helping Others, Purpose, Remember

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