Richard Nixon Quotes

The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.

After the assassination of my wife, our nation was perilously close to civil strife. If I, as the co-chairman of the Party, had asked my people to take to the streets, the very existence of the federation would have been threatened.

When National Guardsmen shot four unarmed students at Kent State, virtually the entire system of higher education shuddered and stopped.

Unless something drastic is done very soon, then bloodshed and violence are going to happen…almost inevitably… A people made desperate by despair and injustice and oppression will use desperate means.

Nations have the tendency to be born in blood.

American blood will run in the streets.

There will never be quietness in this country till half a dozen of you be hanged or banished.

Politics for me started in violence.

On some campuses, change is effected through nonviolent or even violent means.

I fear we may live to see another revolution.

In June 1968, five days before my mother's forty -sixth birthday, the world fell apart again. Sirhan Sirhan shot Bobby Kennedy, who died the next day. Why were people shooting all the Kennedys? Had the country gone mad?

Tin soldiers and Nixon coming, We're finally on our own. This summer I hear the drumming, Four dead in Ohio.

Politics is but the common pulse-beat, of which revolution is the fever-spasm.

The 20th century has been a badly written drama, from the beginning.

Unfortunately the innocent are always involved in any conflict. Always, everywhere, there is some voice crying from a tower.

Intemperance is naturally punished with diseases; rashness, with mischance; injustice; with violence of enemies; pride, with ruin; cowardice, with oppression; and rebellion, with slaughter.

Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him? - Lady Macbeth

It is possible, I suppose, that we are returning to a Dark Age. What is frightening is that violence is not only represented by nations, but everywhere walks among us freely.

Revolutions are never peaceful.

Donald Trump rejected charges of ties between his campaign and Russia, blasted the intelligence community for leaks, and repeatedly attacked the news media. The president said he inherited a mess at home and abroad, but he dismissed the notion of a White House in turmoil.

Insurrection, never so necessary, is a most sad necessity; and governors who wait for that to instruct them are surely getting into the fatalest course.

When religion and politics ride in the same cart, the whirlwind follows.

Don't want that, do they?” She throws back her head and shouts, “Whole country in rebellion? Wouldn't want anything like that!

I witnessed a lot of violence, and I found myself asking the question: Do you ever use violence to try to bring about political change?