Richard M. Nixon

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

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

While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God’s creation.

He is great who confers the most benefits.

How many a poor immortal soul have I met well-nigh crushed and smothered under its load, creeping down the road of life, pushing before it a barn seventy-five feet by forty, its Augean stables never cleansed, and one hundred acres of land, tillage, mowing, pasture, and wood-lot. The portionless, who struggle with no such unnecessary inherited encumbrances, find it labor enough to subdue and cultivate a few cubic feet of flesh.

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

Skepticism is unbelief in cause and effect.

This is the sort of pedantry up with which I will not put.

The greatest part of a writer’s time is spent in reading, in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make one book.

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.

Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here.

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.

The future is purchased by the present.

Acorns were good until bread was found.

Worthless people love only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.

The billiard table is better than the doctor.