Daily Inspiration Quote by Charles Colson

The line lands like a dare, and that is the point: a confession posed as bravado. Colson isn’t merely saying he supported Nixon; he’s advertising the kind of political loyalty that treats normal moral boundaries as optional. “Walk over my own grandmother” is comic-book exaggeration, but it’s calibrated exaggeration. It drags the sweetest, most culturally protected figure into the mud to prove there is no sacred limit to what he’d do for the cause. Family, piety, decency: all negotiable if the win is on the table.

The subtext is transactional and tribal. Nixon’s reelection isn’t framed as a policy preference; it’s framed as a personal crusade, the way insiders talk when power is close enough to smell. Colson, a hard-edged attorney who became one of Nixon’s most aggressive loyalists, is performing devotion to the team in a way that signals usefulness: I will not flinch, I will not dissent, I will not moralize. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, that posture was currency in a White House defined by siege mentality, enemies lists, and a belief that politics was war by other means.

Knowing Colson’s arc sharpens the irony. Watergate exposed what this ethic looks like in practice: dirty tricks, ends-justify-means reasoning, and ultimately prison. The quote reads now as a compact prequel to scandal - a single sentence that captures how democratic life corrodes when winning becomes a kind of secular salvation.