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This administration has proved that it is utterly incapable of cleaning out the corruption which has completely eroded it and reestablishing the confidence and faith of the American people in the morality and honesty of their government employees.

— Richard Nixon

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What are our schools for if not for indoctrination against communism?

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

A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.

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.

No More Vietnams (1987)

Oh, when the President does it, that means that it is not illegal.

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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

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