Richard Nixon: “No one can predict with precision whether or not, or precisely when, we can end conscription.”

This country needs good farmers, good businessmen, good plumbers, good carpenters.

This house has a great heart, and that heart comes from those who serve.

I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is abhorrent to every instinct in my body. But as president, I must put the interests of America first. Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon…

It is only a beginning, always.