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A Strong Nation Is One That Is Loved By Its People And, As Edmund Burke Put It, For A Country To Be Loved It Ought To Be Lovely.

Perhaps There Is A Simple Answer -- Not An Easy Answer -- But Simple: If You And I Have The Courage To Tell Our Elected Officials That We Want Our National Policy Based On What We Know In Our Hearts Is Morally Right.

Let Us Thank God For Life And The Blessings He's Put Before Us. High Among Them Are Our Families, Our Freedom, And The Opportunities Of A New Year.

I Hope You're All Republicans.

For An America Of Wisdom That Honors The Family, Knowing That If The Family Goes, So Goes Our Civilization.

You And I, As Individuals, Can, By Borrowing, Live Beyond Our Means, But For Only A Limited Period Of Time. Why, Then, Should We Think That Collectively, As A Nation, We're Not Bound By That Same Limitation? We Must Act Today In Order To Preserve Tomorrow.

We In Government Should Learn To Look At Our Country With The Eyes Of The Entrepreneur, Seeing Possibilities Where Others See Only Problems

These Are The Values Inspiring Those Brave Workers In Poland. The Values That Have Inspired Other Dissidents Under Communist Domination. They Remind Us That Where Free Unions And Collective Bargaining Are Forbidden, Freedom Is Lost.

If It's To Be A Bloodbath, Let It Be Now. Appeasement Is Not The Answer.

Our Opponents See An America In Which Every Day Is April 15, Tax Day. Well, We See An America In Which Every Day Is The Fourth Of July.

To Do Whatever Needs To Be Done To Preserve This Last And Greatest Bastion Of Freedom.

You And I Have A Rendezvous With Destiny. We Will Preserve For Our Children This, The Last Best Hope Of Man On Earth.

If You Want More Of Something, Subsidize It; If You Want Less Of Something, Tax It.

They Don't Worship At The Altar Of Forced Busing And Mandatory Quotas. They Don't Believe You Can Remedy Past Discrimination By Mandating New Discrimination. (defending His Nominees For Civil Rights Commission)

America Is Too Great For Small Dreams.

Simple Fairness Dictates That Government Must Not Raise Taxes On Families Struggling To Pay Their Bills.

Where There's Liberty, Art Succeeds.

This Is A Matter Of Vital Importance To The Public Safety ... While We Recognize That Assault-weapon Legislation Will Not Stop All Assault-weapon Crime, Statistics Prove That We Can Dry Up The Supply Of These Guns, Making Them Less Accessible To Criminals.

Assault Weapons

Man Is Not Free Unless Government Is Limited.

Poland Is At The Center Of European Civilization. It Has Contributed Mightily To That Civilization. It Is Doing So Today By Being Magnificently Unreconciled To Oppression. Poland's Struggle To Be Poland And To Secure The Basic Rights We Often Take For Granted, Demonstrates Why We Dare Not Take Those Rights For Granted.

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

I Think It's Time We Ask Ourselves If We Still Know The Freedoms That Were Intended For Us By The Founding Fathers... Whether We Believe In Our Capacity For Self-government Or Whether We Abandon The American Revolution And Confess That A Little Intellectual Elite In A Far-distant Capital Can Plan Our Lives For Us Better Than We Can Plan Them For Ourselves.

Even Now I Wonder What I Might Have Accomplished If I'd Studied Harder

It's Difficult To Believe That People Are Still Starving In This Country Because Food Isn't Available.

I Would Have Voted Against The Civil Rights Act Of 1964.

Great Nations Which Fail To Meet Their Responsibilities Are Consigned To The Dustbin Of History. We Grew From That Small, Weak Republic Which Had As Its Assets Spirit, Optimism, Faith In God And An Unshakeable Belief That Free Men And Women Could Govern Themselves Wisely. We Became The Leader Of The Free World, An Example For All Those Who Cherish Freedom.

Republicans Believe The Best Way To Assure Prosperity Is To Generate More Jobs. The Democrats Believe In More Welfare.

This Is Not The Time For Political Fun And Games. This Is The Time For A New Beginning. I Ask You Now To Put Aside Any Feelings Of Frustration Or Helplessness About Our Political Institutions And Join Me In This Dramatic But Responsible Plan To Reduce The Enormous Burden Of Federal Taxation On You And Your Family.

I Do Not Believe In Taking Away The Right Of The Citizen For Sporting, For Hunting And So Forth, Or For Home Defense. But I Do Believe That An Ak-47, A Machine Gun, Is Not A Sporting Weapon Or Needed For Defense Of A Home.

Cars Don't Cause Pollution, Trees Do.

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.

People Don't Start Wars, Governments Do.

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.

Fascism Was Really The Basis For The New Deal. It Was Mussolini's Success In Italy, With His Government-directed Economy, That Led The Early New Dealers To Say "but Mussolini Keeps The Trains Running On Time.

Seventy-five Years Ago I Was Born In Tampico, Illinois, In A Little Flat Above The Bank Building. We Didn't Have Any Other Contact With The Bank Than That.

The Things That Unite Us-america's Past Of Which We Are So Proud, Our Hopes And Aspirations For The Future Of The World And This Much Loved Country-these Things Far Outweigh What Little Divides Us.

Have We The Courage And The Will To Face Up To The Immorality And Discrimination Of The Progressive Tax, And Demand A Return To Traditional Proportionate Taxation? ... Today In Our Country The Tax Collector's Share Is 37 Cents Of Every Dollar Earned. Freedom Has Never Been So Fragile, So Close To Slipping From Our Grasp.

The Little Dictator Who Went To Moscow In His Green Fatigues To Receive A Bear Hug Did Not Forsake The Doctrine Of Lenin When He Returned To The West And Appeared In A Two-piece Suit. (on Daniel Ortega Saavedra)

You Can Achieve Anything In Politics Provided That You Let Someone Else Take The Credit.

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

Balancing Your Budget Is Like Protecting Your Virtue. You Have To Learn When To Say No.

We Have So Many People Who Can't See A Fat Man Standing Beside A Thin One Without Coming To The Conclusion That The Fat Man Got That Way By Taking Advantage Of The Thin One!

Form And Substance Are Opposite Ends Of The Same Coin.

I Want To Talk About Political And Economic Fairy Tales.

The Bible And Its Teachings Helped Form The Basis For The Founding Fathers' Abiding Belief In The Inalienable Rights Of The Individual, Rights Which They Found Implicit In The Bible's Teachings Of The Inherent Worth And Dignity Of Each Individual. This Same Sense Of Man Patterned The Convictions Of Those Who Framed The English System Of Law Inherited By Our Own Nation, As Well As The Ideals Set Forth In The Declaration Of Independence And The Constitution.

The Vote On The Peacekeeper Is Also A Vote On Geneva. Rejecting The Peacekeeper Will Knock The Legs Out From Under The Negotiating Table. (on Importance Of The Mx Missile)

America Must Remain Freedom's Staunchest Friend, For Freedom Is Our Best Ally And It Is The World's Only Hope To Conquer Poverty And Preserve Peace.

Terrorism Is The Preferred Weapon Of Weak And Evil Men.

History Comes And History Goes, But Principles Endure, And Ensure Future Generations Will Defend Liberty Not As A Gift From Government But As A Blessing From Our Creator.

My Doctors Told Me This Morning My Blood Pressure Is Down So Low That I Can Start Reading The Newspapers.

The Future Belongs To The Free.

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

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.

I Have Been One Who Believes That Abortion Is The Taking Of A Human Life . . . . The Fact That They Could Not Resolve The Issue Of When Life Begins Was A Finding In And Of Itself. If We Don't Know, Then Shouldn't We Morally Opt On The Side That It Is Life? If You Came Upon An Immobile Body And You Yourself Could Not Determine Whether It Was Dead Or Alive, I Think That You Would Decide To Consider It Alive Until Somebody Could Prove It Was Dead. You Wouldn't Get A Shovel And Start Covering It Up. And I Think We Should Do The Same Thing With Regard To Abortion.

The Greatest Security For Israel Is To Create New Egypts.

Many A Man Has Failed Because He Had His Wishbone Where His Backbone Should Have Been.

Our National Motto - 'in God We Trust' - Was Not Chosen Lightly. It Reflects A Basic Recognition That There Is A Divine Authority In The Universe To Which This Nation Owes Homage.

Government Does Not Solve Problems; It Subsidizes Them.

Every Dollar The Federal Government Does Not Take From Us, Every Decision It Does Not Make For Us, Will Make Our Economy Stronger, Our Lives More Abundant, Our Future More Free.

All Of Us Should Remember That The Federal Government Is Not Some Mysterious Institution Comprised Of Buildings, Files And Paper. The People Are The Government. What We Create We Ought To Be Able To Control.

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.

Why Should The Government Subsidize Intellectual Curiosity?

Growing And Decaying Vegetation In This Land Are Responsible For 93 Percent Of The Oxides Of Nitrogen.

I Can't Believe That This World Can Go On Beyond Our Generation And On Down To Succeeding Generations With This Kind Of Weapon On Both Sides Poised At Each Other Without Someday Some Fool Or Some Maniac Or Some Accident Triggering The Kind Of War That Is The End Of The Line For All Of Us. And I Just Think Of What A Sigh Of Relief Would Go Up From Everyone On This Earth If Someday-and This Is What I Have-my Hope, Way In The Back Of My Head-is That If We Start Down The Road To Reduction, Maybe One Day In Doing That, Somebody Will Say, 'why Not All The Way? Let's Get Rid Of All These Things'.

Ending Inflation Means Freeing All Americans From The Terror Of Runaway Living Costs. ... We Have Every Right To Dream Heroic Dreams. Those Who Say That We Are In A Time When There Are No Heroes Just Don't Know Where To Look. ... Above All, We Must Realize That No Arsenal, Or No Weapon In The Arsenals Of The World, Is So Formidable As The Will And Moral Courage Of Free Men And Women.

Cannot Swords Be Turned To Plowshares? Can We And All Nations Not Live In Peace? In Our Obsession With Antagonisms Of The Moment, We Often Forget How Much Unites All The Members Of Humanity. Perhaps We Need Some Outside, Universal Threat To Make Us Recognize This Common Bond. I Occasionally Think How Quickly Our Differences Worldwide Would Vanish If We Were Facing An Alien Threat From Outside This World. And Yet, I Ask You, Is Not An Alien Force Already Among Us? What Could Be More Alien To The Universal Aspirations Of Our Peoples Than War And The Threat Of War?

Let's Face It.., Our Current [immigration Control] System Is Like A Busy Intersection Without A Traffic Cop: Sure There Are Laws On The Books, But Absent Enforcement, There Are Too Many Accidents.

I Would Like To Dissolve The $10 Billion National Department Of Education Created By President Carter And Turn Schools Back To The Local School Districts, Where We Built The Greatest Public School System The World Has Ever Seen. I Think I Can Make A Case That The Decline In The Quality Of Public Education Began When Federal Aid Became Federal Interference.

If There's One Thing The American People Aren't Lacking, It Is Courage.

[andrew Jackson] Was Actually 70 Years Old When He Left The White House

You Know, If Nancy Davis Hadn't Come Along When She Did, I Would Have Lost My Soul.

Inflation Is As Violent As A Mugger, As Frightening As An Armed Robber And As Deadly As A Hit Man.

Work And Family Are At The Center Of Our Lives, The Foundation Of Our Dignity As A Free People.

When You See All That Rhetorical Smoke Billowing Up From The Democrats, Well Ladies And Gentleman, I'd Follow The Example Of Their Nominee; Don't Inhale.

I've Often Wondered, What If All Of Us In The World Discovered That We Were Threatened By An Outer -- A Power From Outer Space, From Another Planet. Wouldn't We All Of A Sudden Find That We Didn't Have Any Differences Between Us At All, We Were All Human Beings, Citizens Of The World, And Wouldn't We Come Together To Fight That Particular Threat?

Mankind's Journey Into Space, Like Every Great Voyage Of Discovery, Will Become Part Of Our Unending Journey Of Liberation. In The Limitless Reaches Of Space, We Will Find Liberation From Tyranny, From Scarcity, From Ignorance And From War. We Will Find The Means To Protect This Earth And To Nurture Every Human Life, And To Explore The Universe. . . .this Is Our Mission, This Is Our Destiny.

We Don't Lump People By Groups Or Special Interests. And Let Me Add, In The Party Of Lincoln There Is No Room For Intolerance And Not Even A Small Corner For Anti-semitism Or Bigotry Of Any Kind. Many People Are Welcome In Our House, But Not The Bigots.

Our Loyalty Lies With Little Taxpayers, Not Big Spenders. What Our Critics Really Believe Is That Those In Washington Know Better How To Spend Your Money Than You, The People, Do. But We're Not Going To Let Them Do It, Period.

It's Just Too Bad We Can't Have An Epidemic Of Botulism.

Anyone Who Seeks Success Or Greatness Should First Forget About Both And Seek Only The Truth. The Rest Will Follow.

When I Took The Oath Of Office, I Pledged Loyalty To Only One Special Interest Group - ‘we The People’.

I've Long Believed One Of The Mainsprings Of Our Own Liberty Has Been The Widespread Ownership Of Property Among Our People And The Expectation That Anyone's Child, Even From The Humblest Of Families, Could Grow Up To Own A Business Or Corporation.

From My Mother I Learned The Value Of Prayer, How To Have Dreams And Believe I Could Make Them Come True.

We Still Have Too Much Air And Water Pollution And We Still Need To Work To Reduce It. But We Also Need To Put The Problem Of Pollution Into A Historical As Well As Scientific Perspective.

There Are No Constraints On The Human Mind, No Walls Around The Human Spirit, No Barriers To Our Progress Except Those We Ourselves Erect.

Mr. Gorbachev, Tear Down This Wall!

I Am An Environmentalist. ... I Am For Clean Air.

There Can Be No Security Anywhere In The Free World If There Is No Fiscal And Economic Stability Within The United States.

We Have Every Right To Dream Heroic Dreams.

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

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?

We Now Know That Inflation Results From All That Deficit Spending.

A Leader, Once Convinced That A Particular Course Of Action Is The Right One, Must....be Undaunted When The Going Gets Tough.

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

Life Is One Grand, Sweet Song, So Start The Music.

The Wpa Was One Of The Most Productive Elements Of Fdr's Alphabet Soup Of Agencies Because It Put People To Work Building Roads, Bridges, And Other Projects... It Gave Men And Women A Chance To Make Some Money Along With The Satisfaction Of Knowing They Earned It.

There Are Those, Of Course, Who Claim We Must Give Up Freedom In Exchange For Economic Progress. Well, Pardon Me, But Anyone Trying To Sell You That Line Is No Better Than A Three-card-trick Man. One Thing Becoming More Clear Every Day Is That Freedom And Progress Go Hand In Hand. Throughout The Developing World, People Are Rejecting Socialism Because They See That It Doesn't Empower People, It Impoverishes Them.

And We're Also Remembering The Guiding Light Of Our Judeo-christian Tradition. All Of Us Here Today Are Descendants Of Abraham, Isaac, And Jacob, Sons And Daughters Of The Same God. I Believe We Are Bound By Faith In Our God, By Our Love For Family And Neighborhood, By Our Deep Desire For A More Peaceful World, And By Our Commitment To Protect The Freedom Which Is Our Legacy As Americans. These Values Have Given A Renewed Sense Of Worth To Our Lives. They Are Infusing America With Confidence And Optimism That Many Thought We Had Lost.

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.

Today, If You Invent A Better Mousetrap, The Government Comes Along With A Better Mouse.

Regimes Planted By Bayonets Do Not Take Root... Our Military Strength Is A Prerequisite To Peace, But Let It Be Clear We Maintain This Strength In The Hope It Will Never Be Used, For The Ultimate Determinant In The Struggle That's Now Going On In The World Will Not Be Bombs And Rockets But A Test Of Wills And Ideas, A Trial Of Spiritual Resolve, The Values We Hold, The Beliefs We Cherish, The Ideals To Which We Are Dedicated.

Without God, Democracy Will Not And Cannot Long Endure.

Israel Exists; It Has A Right To Exist In Peace Behind Secure And Defensible Borders; And It Has A Right To Demand Of Its Neighbors That They Recognize Those Facts. I Have Personally Followed And Supported Israel's Heroic Struggle For Survival, Ever Since The Founding Of The State Of Israel 34 Years Ago. In The Pre-1967 Borders Israel Was Barely 10 Miles Wide At Its Narrowest Point. The Bulk Of Israel's Population Lived Within Artillery Range Of Hostile Arab Armies. I Am Not About To Ask Israel To Live That Way Again.

We Know That This Mad Dog Of The Middle East Has A Goal Of A World Revolution. (on Muammar Qaddafi Of Libya)

The Most Confident Person In Any Transaction Always Introduces Themselves First.

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?

America's View Of Apartheid Is Simple And Straightforward: We Believe It Is Wrong. We Condemn It. And We Are United In Hoping For The Day When Apartheid Will Be No More.

I Now Have Absolute Proof That Smoking Even One Marijuana Cigarette Is Equal In Brain Damage To Being On Bikini Island During An H-bomb Blast

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.

Today, We're Taking A Break From The Concerns And The Bustle Of The Work-a-day World. But We're Also Making A New Beginning... Let Us Renew Our Faith That As Free Men And Women We Still Have The Power To Better Our Lives, And Let Us Resolve To Face The Challenges Of The New Year Holding That Conviction Firmly In Our Hearts. That, After All, Is Our Greatest Strength And Our Greatest Gift As Americans.

We Intend To Keep The Peace - We Will Also Keep Our Freedom.

The Size Of The Federal Budget Is Not An Appropriate Barometer Of Social Conscience Or Charitable Concern.

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

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)

Government's First Duty Is To Protect The People, Not Run Their Lives.

America Needs Jobs And Opportunity, Not Make-work And Handouts.

You And I Have The Courage To Say To Our Enemies, 'there Is A Price We Will Not Pay.' There Is A Point Beyond Which They Must Not Advance. This Is The Meaning Of The Phrase 'peace Through Strength.'

Respect For Human Rights Is Not Social Work; It Is Not Merely An Act Of Compassion. It Is The First Obligation Of Government And The Source Of Its Legitimacy.

I'm Not A Politician By Profession. I Am A Citizen Who Decided I Had To Be Personally Involved In Order To Stand Up For My Own Values And Beliefs. My Candidacy Is Based On My Record, And For That Matter, My Entire Life.

When You Can't Make Them See The Light, Make Them Feel The Heat.

Meaningful Work, Not Welfare, Is Every American's Hope, And We Have A Continuing Responsibility To Make Those Hopes A Lasting Reality.

I'm Not A Politician By Profession. I Am A Citizen Who Decided I Had To Be Personally Involved.

The United States Trades More With The Province Of Ontario Alone Than With Japan.

A People Free To Choose Will Always Choose Peace.

I'm Not Smart Enough To Lie

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.

An America That Is Militarily And Economically Strong Is Not Enough. The World Must See An America That Is Morally Strong With A Creed And A Vision. This Is What Has Led Us To Dare And Achieve. For Us, Values Count.

We're Not Just Discussing Limits On A Further Increase Of Nuclear Weapons; We Seek, Instead, To Reduce Their Number. We Seek The Total Elimination One Day Of Nuclear Weapons From The Face Of The Earth.

Where Free Unions And Collective Bargaining Are Forbidden, Freedom Is Lost.

With Our Eyes Fixed On The Future, But Recognizing The Realities Of Today, We Will Achieve Our Destiny To Be As A Shining City On A Hill For All Mankind To See.

If History Teaches Anything, It Teaches Self-delusion In The Face Of Unpleasant Facts Is Folly.

We Are At War With The Most Dangerous Enemy That Has Ever Faced Mankind In His Long Climb From The Swamp To The Stars, And It Has Been Said If We Lose That War, And In So Doing Lose This Way Of Freedom Of Ours, History Will Record With The Greatest Astonishment That Those Who Had The Most To Lose Did The Least To Prevent Its Happening.

America's Foreign Policy Supports Freedom, Democracy, And Human Dignity For All Mankind, And We Make No Apologies For It. The Opportunity Society That We Want For Ourselves We Also Want For Others, Not Because We're Imposing Our System On Others But Because Those Opportunities Belong To All People As God-given Birthrights And Because By Promoting Democracy And Economic Opportunity We Make Peace More Secure.

Approximately 80% Of Our Air Pollution Stems From Hydrocarbons Released By Vegetation, So Let's Not Go Overboard In Setting And Enforcing Tough Emission Standards From Man-made Sources.

We Can Not Play Innocents Abroad In A World That Is Not Innocent.

I Looked Out The Window And Saw This White Light.it Was Zigzagging Around. I Went Up To The Pilot And Said,have You Ever Seen Anything Like That? He Was Shocked And He Said, "nope." And I Said To Him: "let's Follow It!" We Followed It For Several Minutes. It Was A Bright White Light.we Followed It To Bakersfield, And All Of A Sudden To Our Utter Amazement It Went Straight Up Into The Heavens. When I Got Off The Plane I Told Nancy All About It.

A Drastic Reduction In The Deficit...will Take Place In The Fiscal Year '82.

Let It Never Be Said Of This Generation Of Americans That We Became So Obsessed With Failure That We Refused To Take Risks That Could Further The Cause Of Peace And Freedom In The World.

This Generation

Every Honor Is Appropriate For The Courageous Americans Who Made The Supreme Sacrifice For Our Nation At Pearl Harbor And In The Many Battles That Followed In World War Ii. Their Sacrifice Was For A Cause, Not For Conquest; For A World That Would Be Safe For Future Generations. Their Devotion Must Never Be Forgotten.

Greatest Gift Is Human Life And That We Have A Duty To Protect The Life Of An Unborn Child.

During My First Press Conference As President, In Answer To A Direct Question, I Pointed Out That, As Good Marxist-leninists, The Soviet Leaders Have Openly And Publicly Declared That The Only Morality They Recognize Is That Which Will Further Their Cause, Which Is World Revolution.

Thomas Jefferson Made A Comment About The Presidency And Age. He Said That One Should Not Worry About One's Exact Chronological Age In Reference To His Ability To Perform One's Task. And Ever Since He Told Me That, I Stopped Worrying.

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.

We Establish No Religion In This Country. We Command No Worship. We Mandate No Belief, Nor Will We Ever. Church And State Are And Must Remain Separate.

Will You Resist The Temptation To Get A Government Handout For Your Community? Realize That The Doctor's Fight Against Socialized Medicine Is Your Fight. We Can't Socialize The Doctors Without Socializing The Patients. Recognize That Government Invasion Of Public Power Is Eventually An Assault Upon Your Own Business.

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.

State Problems Should Involve State Solutions.

Too Often, People Forget The Basic Fact Of Life: All Those Good Things We Enjoy Come From The Ache In [our] Backs And The Willingness To Shoulder Great Personals Risks.

There Are No Easy Answers' But There Are Simple Answers. We Must Have The Courage To Do What We Know Is Morally Right.

Democracy Is Worth Dying For, Because It's The Most Deeply Honorable Form Of Government Ever Devised By Man.

I Believe With All My Heart That Our First Priority Must Be World Peace, And That Use Of Force Is Always And Only A Last Resort, When Everything Else Has Failed, And Then Only With Regard To Our National Security.

I've Spoken Of The Shining City All My Political Life, But I Don't Know If I Ever Quite Communicated What I Saw When I Said It. But In My Mind It Was A Tall, Proud City Built On Rocks Stronger Than Oceans, Windswept, God-blessed, And Teeming With People Of All Kinds Living In Harmony And Peace; A City With Free Ports That Hummed With Commerce And Creativity. And If There Had To Be City Walls, The Walls Had Doors And The Doors Were Open To Anyone With The Will And Heart To Get There. That's How I Saw It, And See It Still.

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

The Best Way To Get Over A Dog's Death Is To Get Another Soon.

Admittedly, There Is A Risk In Any Course We Follow Other Than This, But Every Lesson In History Tells Us That The Greater Risk Lies In Appeasement, And This Is The Specter Our Well-meaning Liberal Friends Refuse To Face.

The Doors Of This Library Are Open Now And Are All Welcome. The Judgment Of History Is Left To You, The People. I Have No Fears Of That, For We Have Done Our Best. And So I Say, Come And Learn From It.

It Would Seem That Not Only Is Religion Lacking In The Schools - So Is Common Sense. I Wonder What A Teacher Is Supposed To Say If A Kid Asks About Those Four Words On A Dime - 'in God We Trust.' Or Maybe That's Why They Aren't Being Taught How To Read These Days.

In This Present Crisis, Government Is Not The Solution To Our Problem, Government Is The Problem. It Isn't So Much That Liberals Are Ignorant, It's Just That They Know So Much That Isn't So.

There's No Question I Am An Idealist, Which Is Another Way Of Saying 'i Am An American.'

We Are Forever Indebted To Those Who Have Given Their Lives That We Might Be Free.

In 1992, The Federal Government Actually Issued More Work Authorizations To Immigrants And Temporary Foreign Workers Than The Net Number Of New Jobs Created By Our Economy. Something Is Fundamentally Wrong When We Have Millions Of American Citizens And Legal Residents Begging For Jobs, And Yet We Are Admitting Thousands And Thousands Of Immigrants A Year With Virtually No Consideration To Our Employment Needs Or Their Employment Skills.

This Crime Against Humanity Must Never Be Forgotten.

The National Democratic Leadership Is Going So Far Left, They've Left America. Don't Let Them Bury The American Dream In Their Graveyard Of Gloom And Envy.

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.

History Teaches That Wars Begin When Governments Believe The Price Of Aggression Is Cheap. To Keep The Peace, We And Our Allies Must Be Strong Enough To Convince Any Potential Aggressor That War Could Bring No Benefit, Only Disaster.

What We Have Found In This Country, And Maybe We're More Aware Of It Now, Is One Problem That We've Had, Even In The Best Of Times, And That Is The People Who Are Sleeping On The Grates, The Homeless, You Might Say, By Choice.

Almost All The Worlds' 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.

If Adults Want To Take Such Chances (with Marijuana) That Is Their Business

As Government Expands, Liberty Contracts.

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

Of The Many Influences That Have Shaped The United States Into A Distinctive Nation And People, None May Be Said To Be More Fundamental And Enduring Than The Bible.

One Day We Will Spend Our Sunset Years Telling Our Children And Our Children's Children What It Was Once Like In The United States Where Men Were Free.

The Problem Is Not That People Are Taxed Too Little, The Problem Is That Government Spends Too Much.

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

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.

If Politics Were A Musical, It Would Be "promises, Promises".

My Basic Rule Is That I Want People Who Don't Want A Job In Government.

Revolution Means Democracy In Today's World, Not The Enslavement Of Peoples To The Corrupt And Degrading Horrors Of Totalitarianism

Regimes Planted By Bayonets Do Not Take Root.

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.

As A Nation, We Must Choose Between The Sanctity Of Life Ethic And The Quality Of Life Ethic. I Have No Trouble Identifying The Answer Our Nation Has Always Given To This Basic Question, And The Answer That I Hope And Pray It Will Give In The Future.

Someone Asked Me Whether I Was Aware Of All The People Out There Who Were Praying For The President. And I Had To Say, "yes, I Am. I've Felt It. I Believe In Intercessory Prayer." But I Couldn't Help But Say To That Questioner After He'd Asked The Question That - Or At Least Say To Them That If Sometimes When He Was Praying He Got A Busy Signal, It Was Just Me In There Ahead Of Him.

Freedom Is Never More Than One Generation Away From Extinction. We Didn't Pass It To Our Children In The Bloodstream. It Must Be Fought For, Protected, And Handed On For Them To Do The Same.

If No One Among Us Is Capable Of Governing Himself, Then Who Among Us Has The Capcity To Govern Someone Else.

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

Government Is Not A Solution To Our Problem, Government Is The Problem. ... Government Does Not Solve Problems; It Subsidizes Them. Government's View Of The Economy Could Be Summed Up In A Few Short Phrases: If It Moves, Tax It. If It Keeps Moving, Regulate It. If It Stops Moving, Subsidize It. ... The Problem Is Not That People Are Taxed Too Little, The Problem Is That Government Spends Too Much.

I'm Sure Everyone Feels Sorry For The Individual Who Has Fallen By The Wayside Or Who Can't Keep Up In Our Competitive Society, But My Own Compassion Goes Beyond That To Those Millions Of Unsung Men And Women, Who Get Up Every Morning, Send The Kids To School, Go To Work, Try To Keep Up The Payments On Their House, Pay Exorbitant Taxes To Make Possible Compassion For The Less Fortunate, And As A Result Have To Sacrifice Many Of Their Own Desires And Dreams And Hopes. Government Owes Them Something Better Than Always Finding A New Way To Make Them Share The Fruit Of Their Toils With Others.

You Will Be Competing Against Athletes From Many Nations. But, Most Important, You Are Competing Against Yourself. All We Expect Is For You To Do Your Very Best, To Push Yourself Just One Second Faster, One Notch Higher, One Inch Further.

I'm A Sucker For Hero Worship.

I Couldn't Help But Say To [mr. Gorbachev], Just Think How Easy His Task And Mine Might Be In These Meetings That We Held If Suddenly There Was A Threat To This World From Another Planet. [we'd] Find Out Once And For All That We Really Are All Human Beings Here On This Earth Together.

What We Don't Need Is More Spending, And What We Don't Need Are Taxes, And What We Do Need Is A Lot Less Of Both.

We Fought A War On Poverty, And Poverty Won

Government Steals From The Needy And Gives To The Greedy

Someday, The Realm Of Liberty And Justice Will Encompass The Planet. Freedom Is Not Just The Birthright Of The Few, It Is The God-given Right Of All His Children, In Every Country. It Won't Come By Conquest. It Will Come, Because Freedom Is Right And Freedom Works. It Will Come, Because Cooperation And Good Will Among Free People Will Carry The Day.

A Small Nation, Faced With The Denial Of Its Sovereignty — Indeed, Of Its Very Existence — Reminded Us That The Price Of Freedom Is High But Never So Costly As The Loss Of Freedom.

Price Of Freedom

I Believe That George Washington Knew The City Of Man Cannot Survive Without The City Of God; That The Visible City Will Perish Without The Invisible City.

We Speak With Pride And Admiration Of That Little Band Of Americans Who Overcame Insuperable Odds To Set This Nation On Course 200 Years Ago. But Our Glory Didn't End With Them. Americans Ever Since Have Emulated Their Deeds.

Today A Newcomer To The State Is Automatically Eligible For Our Many Aid Programs The Moment He Crosses The Border.

Families Cannot Prosper And Keep America Strong If Government Becomes A Goliath That Preys Upon Their Wealth, Usurps Their Rights, And Crushes Their Spirit.

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.

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