Richard Nixon Quotes

It's not the money. It's not the fame. It's the influence.

It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.

Let them hate as long as they fear.

Force is never more operative than when it is known to exist but is not brandished.

If someone is talking to you and tells you that you ought to do something, and you can tell they mean it, those are the scary people. Those are the people you want to watch out for.

Historians are dangerous and capable of turning everything upside down. They have to be watched.

Understand: A person of power instills a kind of fear by deliberately unsettling those around him to keep the initative on his side.

You can make people do anything if they're afraid.

Aubrey's voice when he answered was soft. "I'm one of the reasons they wouldn't dare.

It is a great matter to be in authority over others; for authority, if it be rightly used, will make you feared beyond your actual resources.

Any man in Hollywood will meet me if I want that. No, make that any man anywhere.

We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

Owning news makes you important; it gives you a seat at the table.

Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

Education is dangerous - every educated person is a future enemy.

There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.

Oh, justice is what you're threatened with.

Fear is a relative thing; its effects are relative to power.

I think political people are afraid of me.

Dictators and oppressors should continue to fear me because I will be here for a long time.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.

I did so many things that made me a threat.

I think a responsibility comes with notoriety, but I never think of it as power. It's more like something you hold, like grains of sand. If you keep your hand closed, you can have it and possess it, but if you open your fingers in any way, you can lose it just as quickly.

You know, if you think about it, the most powerful people on this earth probably never raise their voices - they just say it and people hop to, because they have that power.