Richard Nixon actually said...

The more support I can have from the American people, the sooner that pledge can be redeemed; for the more divided we are at home, the less likely the enemy is to negotiate at Paris.

Context

Address to the Nation on the War in Vietnam

11/02/1969

https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu...

More Richard Nixon Quotes

I do not ask for your support tonight on the basis that I am a Republican and that you may be, if you are
9/27/1960
All the criticism in the world of the Eisenhower record in the field of foreign policy cannot obscure the truth that the great American peop...
9/27/1960
We have ended one war, we've kept out of other wars, and we do have peace without surrender today
9/27/1960
Communism comes promising independence, promising freedom, promising plenty, but produces none of them.
9/27/1960

View All Richard Nixon Quotes