Richard Nixon

The lamps of enlightenment are lit by the spark of controversy; their flame can be snuffed out by the blanket of consensus.

The judgments of history can bestow no honor greater than the title of peacemaker.

Only the President can hold out a vision of the future and rally the people behind it.

America today cannot afford vest-pocket government, no matter who wears the vest.

Plainly, however, our farmers and ranchers have been the stepchildren of the Great Society.

America verges upon the decade of the 70's, and we must make this a period of unmatched progress for agriculture.

In the Congress and as a member of the Eisenhower Administration, I learned long ago of the immense importance of modern American agriculture to the health and strength of our country.

And I also pledge there will always be an open door for agriculture at the White House.

There has been a 31 percent increase in the cost of production, farm debt is up 90 percent, and 903,000 farms have disappeared from the countryside just since 1960.

Today three out of every ten jobs in our country are directly related to agriculture.

We will not plow under farmers while trying to help them.

We do not seek colonies. We do not seek economic concessions. We seek only the right to live in peace with other nations.

The free world must act to maintain a balance of power to remove the confidence of would-be aggressors.

But Government has a role to play in the building of the new city.

What we need today is not more millions on welfare roles but more millions on payrolls.

This new kind of war can actually be waged more effectively with fewer men and at less cost.

A city is many things—homes, offices, schools, factories. But basically, the people are the city.

To assist in this, we need new incentives to get capital flowing into the ghetto.

Our investment in education is an investment in America's future; none that we make will pay better dividends.

The pursuit of peace is too important for politics-as-usual.

We cannot accept a wave of crime as the wave of the future.

We need not only equal enforcement of the law—but also equal protection of the law.

We need a government in Washington that will recognize that economics is more than a question of politics; it is also a question of justice.

There is nothing the matter with the engine of free enterprise that cannot be corrected by placing a prudent and sober engineer at the throttle.

Ours was conceived, in the eloquent simplicity of Lincoln's words, as a government of the people, by the people and for the people.