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And Let Us Never Forget That In Honoring Our Flag, We Honor The American Men And Women Who Have Courageously Fought And Died For It Over The Last 200 Years, Patriots Who Set An Ideal Above Any Consideration Of Self. Our Flag Flies Free Today Because Of Their Sacrifice.

-Ronald Reagan

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And Let Us Never Forget That In Honoring Our Flag, We Honor The American Men And Women Who Have Courageously Fought And Died For It Over The Last 200 Years, Patriots Who Set An Ideal Above Any Consideration Of Self. Our Flag Flies Free Today Because Of Their Sacrifice.

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One Of Mankind's Problems Is We Keep Committing The Same Errors.

Baseball Is Our National Pastime, That Is If You Discount Political Campaigning.

The [carter] Administration Doesn't Know The Difference Between A Diplomat And A Doormat.

The United Sates Has Much To Offer The Third World War.

... The Moral Equal Of Our Founding Fathers.

We Desire Peace. But Peace Is A Goal, Not A Policy. Lasting Peace Is What We Hope For At The End Of Our Journey. It Doesn't Describe The Steps We Must Take Nor The Paths We Should Follow To Reach That Goal.

If We Ever Forget That We Are One Nation Under God, Then We Will Be A Nation Gone Under.

We're Here To Mark That Day In History When The Allied Peoples Joined In Battle To Reclaim This Continent To Liberty. For Four Long Years, Much Of Europe Had Been Under A Terrible Shadow. Free Nations Had Fallen, Jews Cried Out In The Camps, Millions Cried Out For Liberation. Europe Was Enslaved, And The World Prayed For Its Rescue. Here In Normandy The Rescue Began. Here The Allies Stood And Fought Against Tyranny In A Giant Undertaking Unparalleled In Human History.

My Belief Has Always Been... That Wherever In This Land Any Individual's Constitutional Rights Are Being Unjustly Denied, It Is The Obligation Of The Federal Government-at Point Of Bayonet If Necessary-to Restore That Individual's Constitutional Rights

Do What's Right And You'll Please Some Of The People And Astound The Rest.

Nothing Lasts Longer Than A Temporary Government Program.

I Knew Thomas Jefferson. He Was A Friend Of Mine. And Believe Me, You Are No Thomas Jefferson. (at 1992 Republican Party Convention, Referring To Bill Clinton)

Here's My Strategy On The Cold War: We Win, They Lose.

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

Until Now Has There Ever Been A Time In Which So Many Of The Prophecies Are Coming Together? There Have Been Times In The Past When People Thought The End Of The World Was Coming, And So Forth, But Never Anything Like This.

For Centuries The Bible's Emphasis On Compassion And Love For Our Neighbor Has Inspired Institutional And Governmental Expressions Of Benevolent Outreach Such As Private Charity, The Establishment Of Schools And Hospitals, And The Abolition Of Slavery.

In Case Anybody Asks You About My Position On Capital Punishment, You Can Tell Them I Favor It; And If They Want To Know Why, You Can Tell Them This Story.

Our Government Needs The Church, Because Only Those Humble Enough To Admit They're Sinners Can Bring Democracy The Tolerance It Requires To Survive

We Don't Have A Trillion-dollar Debt Because We Haven't Taxed Enough; We Have A Trillion-dollar Debt Because We Spend Too Much.

The Thought Of Being President Frightens Me And I Do Not Think I Want The Job.

Let The Fourth Of July Always Be A Reminder That Here In This Land, For The First Time, It Was Decided That Man Is Born With Certain God-given Rights; That Government Is Only A Convenience Created And Managed By The People, With No Powers Of Its Own Except Those Voluntarily Granted To It By The People. We Sometimes Forget That Great Truth, And We Never Should. Happy Fourth Of July.

Presidents Come And Go. History Comes And Goes, But Principles Endure.

The . . . Inescapable Truth Is: Government Does Not Have All The Answers. In Too Many Instances, Government Does Not Solve Problems; It Subsidizes Them.

People Are Tired Of Wasteful Government Programs And Welfare Chiselers, And They Are Angry About The Constant Spiral Of Taxes And Government Regulations, Arrogant Bureaucrats, And Public Officials Who Think All Of Mankind's Problems Can Be Solved By Throwing The Taxpayers Dollars At Them.

It's All Part Of Taking A Chance And Expanding Man's Horizons. The Future Doesn't Belong To The Fainthearted; It Belongs To The Brave.

I Have Learned That One Of The Most Important Rules In Politics Is Poise - Which Means Looking Like An Owl After You Have Behaved Like A Jackass.

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