Richard Nixon Quotes

When human beings live together, conflict is inevitable. War is not.

It pays to know the enemy - not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.

It's better to have a dialogue with your enemies than not.

No other people, as a whole, is entirely our enemy. No people at all … is entirely our friend.

Stop the fighting and find the middle ground.

Whoever said “Keep your enemies close” didn’t have many enemies.

Good wishes alone will not ensure peace.

We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations.

We will not have peace by afterthought.

Peace comes through dealing with people. Peace doesn't come at the end of a bayonet or the end of a gun.

Animosity is not a policy.

I have a good relationship with the world. But I don't know what the trick is to maintaining it.

I don't have a ton of enemies. I get along with people pretty well when I'm not annoying them to death.

It is natural to have differences and still remain friends.

There will be not only peace between us and the Arabs ... but close friendship and cooperation.

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.

Now the question is, how can we make our two peoples, both of whom love peace, come closer together.

Peace itself is not made by documents. Peace is made by good will among men.

With friends you use reason and logic. With enemies you use violence.

My eighty percent friend is not my twenty percent enemy.

By exercising our moral leadership, we can transform a generation of potential enemies into a generation of friends.

There is an appealing moral clarity in dividing the world into friend and foe. But in reality, progress in international affairs so often demands working with those with whom we do not see eye to eye.

If you want peace, you have to accept the other. Talk to the other, and accept that they have rights.

Obama sought a strategy of accommodating our enemies, even if they weren't so willing to accommodate us.

Israel will never surrender to hatred.