Pres. Nixon's State of the Union speeches: on Families & Children


We believe in the family as the keystone of the community

The secret of mastering change in today's world is to reach back to old and proven principles, and to adapt them with imagination and intelligence to the new realities of a new age. As we look back at those old principles, we find them as timely as they are timeless:
  • We believe in independence, and self-reliance, and the creative value of the competitive spirit.
  • We believe in the family as the keystone of the community, and in the community as the keystone of the Nation.
  • We believe that a person should get what he works for--and that those who can, should work for what they get.
  • We believe in the capacity of people to make their own decisions in their own lives, in their own communities--and we believe in their right to make those decisions.In applying these principles, we have done so with the full understanding that what we seek in the seventies, what our quest is, is not merely for more, but for better for a better quality of life for all Americans.
    Source: Pres. Nixon's 1972 State of the Union message to Congress Jan 20, 1972

    • The above quotations are from Pres. Nixon's State of the Union messages to Congress, 1970-1974.
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