Richard M. Nixon

Hello, Neil and Buzz. I’m talking to you by telephone from the Oval Room at the White House, and this certainly has to be the most historic telephone call ever made

If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.

The people are to be taken in small doses.

If thou rise with an Appetite, thou art sure never to sit down without one.

The truest end of life is to know that life never ends.

The blunting effects of slavery upon the slaveholder’s moral perceptions are known and conceded the world over; and a priveleged class, an aristocracy, is but a band of slaveholders under another name.

Many of the truths that we cling to depend on our point of view.

The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable.

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.

The jealous are troublesome to others, but torment to themselves.

But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.

Know that the amount of criticism you receive may correlate somewhat to the amount of publicity you receive.

Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it.

The human soul, by once suffering as much as it is capable of, purchases a strange and terrible immunity to all the rest of life’s sorrows.