On the recordApril 5, 1972
A nation can be rich, a nation can be powerful, a nation can be well educated, but if its people lack character it will not stand.
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presidency.ucsb.eduRichard Nixon: “A nation can be rich, a nation can be powerful, a nation can be well educated, but if its people lack character it will…”
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Remarks at the Annual Convention of the National Catholic Education Association in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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