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And There Is The Matter Of Abortion. We Must With Calmness And Resolve Help The Vast Majority Of Our Fellow Americans Understand That The More Than 112 Million Abortions Performed In America In 1980 Amount To A Great Moral Evil, An Assault On The Sacredness Of Human Life.

-Ronald Reagan

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And There Is The Matter Of Abortion. We Must With Calmness And Resolve Help The Vast Majority Of Our Fellow Americans Understand That The More Than 112 Million Abortions Performed In America In 1980 Amount To A Great Moral Evil, An Assault On The Sacredness Of Human Life.

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

The Best Social Program Is A Productive Job For Anyone Who's Willing To Work.

When The Labor Department Is Forced To Relent And Let These Visitors Do This Work It Is Of Course All Legal. But It Makes One Wonder About The Illegal Alien Fuss. Are Great Numbers Of Our Unemployed Really Victims Of The Illegal Alien Invasion Or Are Those Illegal Tourists Actually Doing Work Our Own People Won't Do? One Thing Is Certain In This Hungry World; No Regulation Or Law Should Be Allowed If It Results In Crops Rotting In The Field For Lack Of Harvesters.

This Democracy Of Ours, Which Sometimes We've Treated So Lightly, Is More Than Ever A Comfortable Cloak, So Let Us Not Tear It Asunder, For No Man Knows, Once It Is Destroyed, Where Or When He Will Find Its Protective Warmth Again.

We're Entering Our Third Century Now, But It's Wrong To Judge Our Nation By Its Years. The Calendar Can't Measure America Because We Were Meant To Be An Endless Experiment In Freedom, With No Limits To Our Reaches, No Boundaries To What We Can Do, No End Point To Our Hopes.

We Seek A Constitutional Amendment To Permit Voluntary School Prayer. God Should Never Have Been Expelled From America's Classrooms In The First Place.

They Are Our Brothers, These Freedom Fighters.... They Are The Moral Equal Of Our Founding Fathers And The Brave Men And Women Of The French Resistance. We Cannot Turn Away From Them, For The Struggle Here Is Not Right Versus Left; It Is Right Versus Wrong.

Education Is Like A Diamond With Many Facets: It Includes The Basic Mastery Of Numbers And Letters That Give Us Access To The Treasury Of Human Knowledge, Accumulated And Refined Through The Ages; It Includes Technical And Vocational Training As Well As Instruction In Science, Higher Mathematics, And Humane Letters.

General Secretary Gorbachev, If You Seek Peace, If You Seek Prosperity For The Soviet Union And Eastern Europe, If You Seek Liberalization: Come Here To This Gate! Mr. Gorbachev, Open This Gate! Mr. Gorbachev, Tear Down This Wall!

But There Are Advantages To Being Elected President. The Day After I Was Elected, I Had My High School Grades Classified Top Secret.

We Should Measure Welfare's Success By How Many People Leave Welfare, Not By How Many Are Added.

Government Welfare

I Have Seen The Rise And Fall Of Nazi Tyranny, The Subsequent Cold War And The Nuclear Nightmare That For Fifty Years Haunted The Dreams Of Children Everywhere. During That Time My Generation Defeated Totalitarianism. As A Result, Your World Is Poised For Better Tomorrows. What Will You Do On Your Journey?

Spending On The Military Doesn't Increase The Deficit.

One Of The Traditional Methods Of Imposing Statism Or Socialism Has Been By Way Of Medicine....if You Don't Do This, One Of These Days You And I Are Going To Spend Our Sunset Years Telling Our Children And Our Children's Children What It Was Like In American When Men Were Free.

God's Miracles Are To Be Found In Nature Itself; The Wind And Waves, The Wood That Becomes A Tree - All Of These Are Explained Biologically, But Behind Them Is The Hand Of God.

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

We Need True Tax Reform That Will At Least Make A Start Toward Restoring For Our Children The American Dream That Wealth Is Denied To No One, That Each Individual Has The Right To Fly As High As His Strength And Ability Will Take Him.

How Could An Actor Become President?

Nations Crumble From Within When The Citizenry Asks Of Government Those Things Which The Citizenry Might Better Provide For Itself.

There Seems To Be An Increasing Awareness Of Something We Americans Have Known For Some Time - That The Ten Most Dangerous Words In The English Language Are "hi, I'm From The Government, And I'm Here To Help."

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

It Has Been Said That Politics Is The Second Oldest Profession. I Have Learned That It Bears A Striking Resemblance To The First.

I Just Don't Think It's Good For Us To Be Run Out Of Town. (refusing To Cancel Secretary Of State Visit To Moscow)

Marijuana Is Probably The Most Dangerous Drug In America Today.

Now Back In 1927 An American Socialist, Norman Thomas, Six Times Candidate For President On The Socialist Party Ticket, Said The American People Would Never Vote For Socialism. But He Said Under The Name Of Liberalism The American People Will Adopt Every Fragment Of The Socialist Program.

In A World Wracked By Hatred, Economic Crisis, And Political Tension, America Remains Mankind's Best Hope.

We Don't Need More Politicians Insisting We Have Deficits Because You're Not Taxed Enough. Those Deficits Ballooned From An Economy That Didn't Grow Enough And From 50 Years Of Government Spending Too Much.

We Were Told Four Years Ago That 17 Million People Went To Bed Hungry Each Night. Well That Was Probably True. They Were All On A Diet.

In An Ironic Sense, Karl Marx Was Right. We Are Witnessing Today A Great Revolutionary Crisis, A Crisis Where The Demands Of The Economic Order Are Conflicting Directly With Those Of The Political Order. But The Crisis Is Happening Not In The . . . West, But In The Home Of Marxism-leninism, The Soviet Union. It Is The Soviet Union That Runs Against The Tide Of History By Denying Human Freedom And Human Dignity To Its Citizens.

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.

When Government Gets Too Big, Freedom Is Lost. Government Is Supposed To Be The Servant. But When A Government Can Tax The People With No Limit Or Restraint On What The Government Can Take, Then The Government Has Become The Master.

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