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America's Economic Strength Depends On Industry's Ability To Improve Productivity And Quality And To Remain On The Cutting Edge Of Technology, And That's Why The Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award Is So Important.

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America's Economic Strength Depends

Ronald Reagan

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America's Economic Strength Depends On Industry's Ability To Improve Productivity And Quality And To Remain On The Cutting Edge Of Technology, And That's Why The Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award Is So Important.

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I Didn't Leave The Democratic Party; The Democratic Party Left Me.

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There Is No Institution More Vital To Our Nation's Survival Than The American Family. Here The Seeds Of Personal Character Are Planted, The Roots Of Public Virtue First Nourished. Through Love And Instruction, Discipline, Guidance And Example, We Learn From Our Mothers And Fathers The Values That Will Shape Our Private Lives And Our Public Citizenship.

Don't Let Anyone Tell You That America's Best Days Are Behind Her - That The American Spirit Has Been Vanquished. We've Seen It Triumph Too Often In Our Lives To Stop Believing In It Now.

The Nine Most Terrifying Words In The English Language Are "i'm From The Government, And I'm Here To Help."

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The Doctor Begins To Lose Freedoms; It's Like Telling A Lie, And One Leads To Another. First You Decide That The Doctor Can Have So Many Patients. They Are Equally Divided Among The Various Doctors By The Government. But Then The Doctors Aren't Equally Divided Geographically, So A Doctor Decides He Wants To Practice In One Town And The Government Has To Say To Him You Can't Live In That Town, They Already Have Enough Doctors. You Have To Go Someplace Else. And From Here It Is Only A Short Step To Dictating Where He Will Go.

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Government Is Like A Baby. An Alimentary Canal With A Big Appetite At One End And No Sense Of Responsibility At The Other.

Americans Are Hungering To Feel Proud And Patriotic Again.

I, In My Own Mind, Have Always Thought Of America As A Place In The Divine Scheme Of Things That Was Set Aside As A Promised Land...any Person With The Courage, With The Desire To Tear Up Their Roots, To Strive For Freedom, To Attempt And Dare To Live In A Strange And Foreign Place, To Travel Halfway Across The World Was Welcome Here.

Our Moral Imperative Is To Work With All Our Powers For That Day When The Children Of The World Grow Up Without The Fear Of Nuclear War.

The Future Doesn't Belong To The Light-hearted. It Belongs To The Brave.

Those Who Say That We're In A Time When There Are No Heroes, They Just Don't Know Where To Look.

Whatever Else History May Say About Me When I'm Gone, I Hope It Will Record That I Appealed To Your Best Hopes, Not Your Worst Fears; To Your Confidence Rather Than Your Doubts. My Dream Is That You Will Travel The Road Ahead With Liberty's Lamp Guiding Your Steps And Opportunity's Arm Steadying Your Way.

The Most Fundamental Paradox Is That If We're Never To Use Force, We Must Be Prepared To Use It And To Use It Successfully. We Americans Don't Want War And We Don't Start Fights. We Don't Maintain A Strong Military Force To Conquer Or Coerce Others. The Purpose Of Our Military Is Simple And Straightforward: We Want To Prevent War.

What's Happening In Cuba Is Not A Failure Of The Cuban People. It's A Failure Of Fidel Castro And The Communists.

Freedom Prospers When Religion Is Vibrant And The Rule Of Law Under God Is Acknowledged.

When Those Who Are Governed Do Too Little, Those Who Govern Can - And Often Will - Do Too Much.

It Is The Soviet Union That Runs Against The Tide Of History . . . . [it Is] The March Of Freedom And Democracy Which Will Leave Marxism-leninism On The Ash Heap Of History, As It Has Left Other Tyrannies Which Stifle The Freedom And Muzzle The Self-expression Of The People.

It's Time That We Recognized That Ours Was In Truth A Noble Cause.

Don't Be Afraid To See What You See.

Hayek Is Amongst The Top 2-3 Of The All The People Who Ever Influenced Me.

The Pursuit Of Science, The Study Of The Great Works, The Value Of Free Inquiry, In Short, The Very Idea Of Living The Life Of The Mind - Yes, These Formative And Abiding Principles Of Higher Education In America Had Their First And Firmest Advocate, And Their Greatest Embodiment, In A Tall, Fair-headed, Friendly Man Who Watched This University Take Form From The Mountainside Where He Lived, The University Whose Founding He Called A Crowning Achievement To Along And Well-spent Life.

Ours Was The First Revolution In The History Of Mankind That Truly Reversed The Course Of Government, And With Three Little Words: 'we The People.' 'we The People' Tell The Government What To Do, It Doesn't Tell Us. 'we The People' Are The Driver, The Government Is The Car. And We Decide Where It Should Go, And By What Route, And How Fast. Almost All The World's Constitutions Are Documents In Which Governments Tell The People What Their Privileges Are. Our Constitution Is A Document In Which 'we The People' Tell The Government What It Is Allowed To Do. 'we The People' Are Free.

The Federalist Society Is Changing The Culture Of Our Nation's Law Schools. You Are Returning The Values And Concepts Of Law As Our Founders Understood Them To Scholarly Dialogue, And Through That Dialogue, To Our Legal Institutions.

Government Does Not Solve Problems; It Subsidizes Them.

Everyone Is A Liberal Until They Have Something To Conserve. Then They Become A Conservative.

I Want You To Know That This Administration Is Motivated By A Political Philosophy That Sees The Greatness Of America In You, Her People, And In Your Families, Churches, Neighborhoods, Communities - The Institutions That Foster And Nourish Values Like Concern For Others And Respect For The Rule Of Law Under God.

No Nation In History Has Ever Survived A Tax Burden That Reached A Third Of Its National Income.

Yes, Deficits Are A Problem. I've Been Saying So For More Than A Quarter Of A Century Now. But The Problem Is Not The Size Of The Deficit, It's The Size Of Government's Claim On Our Economy.

All Systems Are Capitalist. It's Just A Matter Of Who Owns And Controls The Capital -- Ancient King, Dictator, Or Private Individual. We Should Properly Be Looking At The Contrast Between A Free Market System Where Individuals Have The Right To Live Like Kings If They Have The Ability To Earn That Right And Government Control Of The Market System Such As We Find Today In Socialist Nations.

Going To College Offered Me The Chance To Play Football For Four More Years.

Anytime You And I Question The Schemes Of The Do-gooders, We're Denounced As Being Against Their Humanitarian Goals. They Say We're Always "against" Things-we're Never "for" Anything. Well, The Trouble With Our Liberal Friends Is Not That They're Ignorant; It's Just That They Know So Much That Isn't So.

But I Also Happen To Be Someone Who Believes In Tithing--the Giving Of A Tenth .

It Is No Coincidence That When The Thugs Tried To Wrest Control Over Grenada, There Were 30 Soviet Advisors And Hundreds Of Cuban Military And Paramilitary Forces On The Island.

The Founding Fathers Believed That Faith In God Was The Key To Our Being A Good People And America's Becoming A Great Nation.

I Have Only One Thing To Say To The Tax Increasers: Go Ahead, Make My Day.

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