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And One More Idea Which May Be Laughed And Sneered At In Some Supposedly Sophisticated Circles, But I Just Have To Believe That The Loving God Who Has Blessed This Land And Thus Made Us A Good And Caring People Should Never Have Been Expelled From America's Classrooms. It's Time To Welcome Him Back, Because Whenever We've Opened Ourselves And Trusted In Him, We've Gained Not Only Moral Courage But Intellectual Strength.

-Ronald Reagan

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Ronald Reagan

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And One More Idea Which May Be Laughed And Sneered At In Some Supposedly Sophisticated Circles, But I Just Have To Believe That The Loving God Who Has Blessed This Land And Thus Made Us A Good And Caring People Should Never Have Been Expelled From America's Classrooms. It's Time To Welcome Him Back, Because Whenever We've Opened Ourselves And Trusted In Him, We've Gained Not Only Moral Courage But Intellectual Strength.

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We Must Never Remain Silent In The Face Of Bigotry. We Must Condemn Those Who Seek To Divide Us. In All Quarters And At All Times, We Must Teach Tolerance And Denounce Racism, Anti-semitism And All Ethnic Or Religious Bigotry Wherever They Exist As Unacceptable Evils. We Have No Place For Haters In America -- None, Whatsoever.

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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.

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Justice For All

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

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Abraham Lincoln Freed The Black Man. In Many Ways, Dr. King Freed The White Man. How Did He Accomplish This Tremendous Feat? Where Others - White And Black - Preached Hatred, He Taught The Principles Of Love And Nonviolence.

The Despicable North Korean Attack In Rangoon Deprived Us Of Trusted Advisers And Friends. So Many Of Those Who Died Had Won Admirers In America As They Studied With Us Or Guided Us With Their Counsel. I Personally Recall The Wisdom And Composure Of Foreign Minister Lee, With Whom I Met In Washington Just A Few Short Months Ago. To The Families And Countrymen Of All Those Who Were Lost, America Expresses Its Deep Sorrow.

And How Stands The City On This Winter Night? More Prosperous, More Secure, And Happier Than It Was 8 Years Ago. But More Than That: After 200 Years, Two Centuries, She Still Stands Strong And True On The Granite Ridge, And Her Glow Has Held Steady No Matter What Storm. And She's Still A Beacon, Still A Magnet For All Who Must Have Freedom, For All The Pilgrims From All The Lost Places Who Are Hurtling Through The Darkness, Toward Home.

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Tyranny, Like Fog In The Well Known Poem, Often Creeps In Silently 'on Little Cat Feet.'

Cold, Hungry, Scared As Hell Inside, But Too Damn Brave To Admit It.

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A People Free To Choose Will Always Choose Peace.

Unless And Until It Can Be Proven That An Unborn Child Is Not A Living Human Being, Can We Justify Assuming Without Proof That It Isn't? No One Has Yet Offered Such Proof; Indeed, All The Evidence Is To The Contrary.

There Is A Mandate To Impose A Voluntary Return To Traditional Values.

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Let Us Ask Ourselves; "what Kind Of People Do We Think We Are?"

Wherever A Beautiful Soul Has Been There Is A Trail Of Beautiful Memories.

The People Of Central America - And, In A Broader Sense, The Entire Developing World - Need To Know First-hand That Freedom And Opportunity Are Not Just For The Elite, But The Birthright Of Every Citizen; That Property Is Not Just Something Enjoyed By A Few, But Can Be Owned By Any Individual Who Works Hard And Makes Correct Decisions.

An Old Russian Woman Goes Into Kremlin, Gets An Audience With Mikhail Gorbachev And Says, In America Anyone Can Go To The White House, Walk Up To Reagan's Desk And Say, 'i Don't Like The Way You Are Running The Country.' Gorbachev Replied, You Can Do The Same Thing In The Soviet Union. You Can Go Into The Kremlin, Walk Up To My Desk And Say 'i Don't Like The Way Reagan Is Running His Country.'

I Am Very Proud To Be Called A Pig. It Stands For Pride, Integrity And Guts.

I've Always Thought New Year's Day Was An Especially American Tradition, Full Of The Optimism And Hope We're Famous For In Our Daily Lives -- An Energy And Confidence We Call The American Spirit. Perhaps Because We Know We Control Our Own Destiny, We Believe Deep Down Inside That Working Together We Can Make Each New Year Better Than The Old.

I'm Just A Citizen Temporarily In Public Service.

Surround Yourself With The Best People You Can Find, Delegate Authority, And Don't Interfere As Long As The Policy You've Decided Upon Is Being Carried Out.

Church And State Are, And Must Remain, Separate.

As For The Enemies Of Freedom, Those Who Are Potential Adversaries, They Will Be Reminded That Peace Is The Highest Aspiration Of The American People. We Will Negotiate For It, Sacrifice For It, We Will Not Surrender For It - Now Or Ever.

Our Country And State Have A Special Obligation To Work Toward The Stabilization Of Our Own Population So As To Credibly Lead Other Parts Of The World Toward Population Stabilization.

Every New Day Begins With Possibilities.

New Possibilities

Through You, We Feel As Giants, Once Again.

Could There Be A Better Answer To The Stupidity Of Karl Marx Than Millions Of Workers Individually Sharing In The Ownership Of The Means Of Production.

Life Involves Effort And Growth. You Won't Grow By Watching A Situation Comedy, Though You Can Grow By Reading A Book. I Hope We Aren't Becoming A Nation Of Watchers, Because What Made Us Great Is That We've Always Been A Nation Of Doers.

We Have Not Inherited An Easy World. If Developments Like The Industrial Revolution, Which Began Here In England, And The Gifts Of Science And Technology Have Made Life Much Easier For Us, They Have Also Made It More Dangerous.

We Cannot Escape Our Destiny, Nor Should We Try To Do So. The Leadership Of The Free World Was Thrust Upon Us Two Centuries Ago In That Little Hall Of Philadelphia. In The Days Following World War Ii, When The Economic Strength And Power Of America Was All That Stood Between The World And The Return To The Dark Ages, Pope Pius Xii Said, 'the American People Have A Great Genius For Splendid And Unselfish Actions. Into The Hands Of America God Has Placed The Destinies Of An Afflicted Mankind.' We Are Indeed, And We Are Today, The Last Best Hope Of Man On Earth.

Abortion Is Advocated Only By Persons Who Have Themselves Been Born.

A University Is A Place Where Ancient Tradition Thrives Alongside The Most Revolutionary Ideas. Perhaps As No Other Institution, A University Is Simultaneously Committed To The Day Before Yesterday And The Day After Tomorrow.

Please Tell Me You're Republicans.

Piling Up Material Goods Cannot Fill The Emptiness Of Lives Which Have No Confidence Or Purpose.

Inspirational Life

Through The History Of Our Nation, Americans Have Always Extended Their Hands In Gestures Of Assistance.

The More The Plans Fail, The More The Planners Plan.

To Sit Back Hoping That Someday, Some Way, Someone Will Make Things Right Is To Go On Feeding The Crocodile, Hoping He Will Eat You Last - But Eat You He Will.

Our System Freed The Individual Genius Of Man. Released Him To Fly As High & As Far As His Own Talent & Energy Would Take Him. We Allocate Resources Not By Government. Decision But By The Millions Of Decisions Customers Make When They Go Into The Market. Place To Buy. If Something Seems Too High-priced We Buy Something Else. Thus Resources Are Steered Toward Those Things The People Want Most At The Price They Are Willing To Pay. It May Not Be A Perfect System But It's Better Than Any Other That's Ever Been Tried.

If You Think You Can - You Can!

Well, I Would - If They Realized That We - Again If - If We Led Them Back To That Stalemate Only Because Our Retaliatory Power, Our Seconds, Or Strike At Them After Our First Strike, Would Be So Destructive They They Couldn't Afford It, That Would Hold Them Off.

I Have Seen The Rise Of Fascism And Communism. Both Philosophies Glorify The Arbitrary Power Of The State... But Both Theories Fail. Both Deny Those God-given Liberties That Are The Inalienable Right Of Each Person On This Planet, Indeed, They Deny The Existence Of God.

Government Should Uphold-and Not Undermine-those Institutions Which Are Custodians Of The Very Values Upon Which Civilization Is Founded: Religion, Education And, Above All, Family.

Has Anyone Stopped To Consider That We Might Come Closer To Balancing The Budget If All Of Us Simply Tried To Live Up To The Ten Commandments And The Golden Rule?

Perhaps No Custom Reveals Our Character As A Nation So Clearly As Our Celebration Of Thanksgiving Day. Rooted Deeply In Our Judeo-christian Heritage, The Practice Of Offering Thanksgiving Underscores Our Unshakable Belief In God As The Foundation Of Our Nation And Our Firm Reliance Upon Him From Whom All Blessings Flow.

Public Servants Say, Always With The Best Of Intentions, 'what Greater Service We Could Render If Only We Had A Little More Money And A Little More Power.' But The Truth Is That Outside Of Its Legitimate Function, Government Does Nothing As Well Or As Economically As The Private Sector.

Are You Better Off Today Than You Were Four Years Ago?

Governments Tend Not To Solve Problems, Only To Rearrange Them.

Government Is Not The Solution, But Rather The Cause Of Our Problems.

Our Reluctance For Conflict Should Not Be Misjudged As A Failure Of Will.

Why Should The Government Subsidize Intellectual Curiosity?

There Are Many Well-meaning People Today Who Work At Placing An Economic Floor Beneath All Of Us So That No One Shall Exist Below A Certain Level Or Standard Of Living, And Certainly We Don't Quarrel With This. But Look More Closely And You May Find That All Too Often These Well-meaning People Are Building A Ceiling Above Which No One Shall Be Permitted To Climb And Between The Two Are Pressing Us All Into Conformity, Into A Mold Of Standardized Mediocrity.

The White House Is The Leakiest Place I've Ever Been In. (on Special Measures To Ensure Secrecy Of Plans To Bomb Libya)

Good Citizenship And Defending Democracy Means Living Up To The Ideals And Values That Make This Country Great.

[a Woman Waiting For Him In The Kremlin Asked Gobachev] "was Communism Invented By A Politician Or A Scientist?" [he Replied] "well, A Politician." She Said, "that Explains It. The Scientist Would Have Tried It On Mice First."

I Think The Presidency Is An Institution Over Which You Have Temporary Custody.

He Struck A Mighty Blow For Equality, Freedom And The American Way Of Life. Jackie Robinson Was A Good Citizen, A Great Man, And A True American Champion.

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

You Know, By The Time You Reach My Age, You've Made Plenty Of Mistakes If You've Lived Your Life Properly. So You Learn. You Put Things In Perspective. You Pull Your Energies Together. You Change. You Go Forward. My Fellow Americans, I Have A Great Deal That I Want To Accomplish With You And For You Over The Next Two Years. And, The Lord Willing, That's Exactly What I Intend To Do.

Since When Do We In America Believe That Our Society Is Made Up Of Two Diametrically Opposed Classes - One Rich, One Poor - Both In A Permanent State Of Conflict And Neither Able To Get Ahead Except At The Expense Of The Other? Since When Do We In America Accept This Alien And Discredited Theory Of Social And Class Warfare? Since When Do We In America Endorse The Politics Of Envy And Division?

Government Is Not The Answer To The Problem - It Is The Problem.

It's Hard, When You're Up To Your Armpits In Alligators, To Remember You Came Here To Drain The Swamp.

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.

I Spoke To Ears That Refused To Hear.

I Once Played A Sheriff Who Thought He Could Do The Job Without A Gun. I Was Dead In Twenty-seven Minutes Of A Thirty Minute Show.

The Best Social Reform Program In The World Is A Job.

Let Me Make Our Goal In This Program Very Clear: Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, And More Jobs. Our Policy Has Been And Will Continue To Be: What Is Good For The American Worker Is Good For America.

How Does It Feel To Be The 's Third Choice? Humiliating? You Could Have Thrown A Dart. That's How Close They Were. We Had So Many Excellent Candidates.

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.

This Administration Is Totally Colorblind.

Form And Substance Are Opposite Ends Of The Same Coin.

Wouldn't It Be Better For The Human Spirit And For The Soul Of This Nation To Encourage People To Accept More Responsibility To Care For Each Other Rather Than Leaving Those Tasks To Paid Bureaucrats.

May Each Of You Have The Heart To Conceive, The Understanding To Direct, And The Hand To Execute Works That Will Leave The World A Little Better For Your Having Been Here.

The Full Consequences Of A Default Or Even The Serious Prospect Of Default By The United States Are Impossible To Predict And Awesome To Contemplate. Denigration Of The Full Faith And Credit Of The United States Would Have Substantial Effects On The Domestic Financial Markets And On The Value Of The Dollar In Exchange Markets. The Nation Can Ill Afford To Allow Such A Result. The Risks, The Cost, The Disruptions, And The Incalculable Damage Lead Me To But One Conclusion: The Senate Must Pass This Legislation Before The Congress Adjourns.

The Time Has Come To Turn To God And Reassert Our Trust In Him For The Healing Of America - Our Country Is In Need Of And Ready For A Spiritual Renewal.

The Same Technology Transforming Our Lives Can Solve The Greatest Problem Of The 20th Century. A Security Shield Can One Day Render Nuclear Weapons Obsolete And Free Mankind From The Prison Of Nuclear Terror. America Met One Historic Challenge And Went To The Moon. Now America Must Meet Another: To Make Our Strategic Defense Real For All The Citizens Of Planet Earth.

I Think All Of Us Are Agreed That War Is Probably Man's Greatest Stupidity And I Think Peace Is The Dream That Lives In The Heart Of Everyone Wherever He May Be In The World, But Unfortunately, Unlike A Family Quarrel, It Doesn't Take Two To Make A War. It Only Takes One, Unless The Other One Is Prepared To Surrender At The First Hint Of Force.

I Have A Feeling That We Are Doing Better In The War Than The People Have Been Told.

Well, The Task I've Set Forth Will Long Outlive Our Own Generation. But Together, We Too Have Come Through The Worst. Let Us Now Begin A Major Effort To Secure The Best- A Crusade For Freedom That Will Engage The Faith And Fortitude Of The Next Generation. For The Sake Of Peace And Justice, Let Us Move Toward A World In Which All People Are At Last Free To Determine Their Own Destiny.

A Moment I've Been Dreading. George Brought His Ne're-do-well Son Around This Morning And Asked Me To Find The Kid A Job. Not The Political One Who Lives In Florida. The One Who Hangs Around Here All The Time Looking Shiftless. This So-called Kid Is Already Almost 40 And Has Never Had A Real Job. Maybe I'll Call Kinsley Over At The New Republic And See If They'll Hire Him As A Contributing Editor Or Something. That Looks Like Easy Work.

You Can't Be For Big Government, Big Taxes And Big Bureaucracy And Still Be For The Little Guy.

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