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By 1980, We Knew It Was Time To Renew Our Faith, To Strive With All Our Strength Toward The Ultimate In Individual Freedom Consistent With An Orderly Society. We Believed Then And Now There Are No Limits To Growth And Human Progress When Men And Women Are Free To Follow Their Dreams.

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By 1980, We Knew

Ronald Reagan

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By 1980, We Knew It Was Time To Renew Our Faith, To Strive With All Our Strength Toward The Ultimate In Individual Freedom Consistent With An Orderly Society. We Believed Then And Now There Are No Limits To Growth And Human Progress When Men And Women Are Free To Follow Their Dreams.

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But The Simple Truth Is That We've Lost Control Of Our Own Borders, And No Nation Can Do That And Survive.

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We Who Live In Free Market Societies Believe That Growth And Prosperity, And Ultimately Human Fulfillment Are Created From The Bottom Up, Not The Government Down.

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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.

The Great Dynamic Success Of Capitalism Had Given Us A Powerful Weapon In Our Battle Against Communism-money.

The Glory Of This Land Has Been Its Capacity For Transcending The Moral Evils Of Our Past. For Example, The Long Struggle Of Minority Citizens For Equal Rights, Once A Source Of Disunity And Civil War, Is Now A Point Of Pride For All Americans. We Must Never Go Back. There Is No Room For Racism, Anti-semitism, Or Other Forms Of Ethnic And Racial Hatred In This Country.

Surround Yourself With Great People; Delegate Authority; Get Out Of The Way

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.

America Has Never Gotten In A War Because We Were Too Strong.

I Just Wanted To Speak To You About Something From The Internal Revenue Code. It Is The Last Sentence Of Section 509a Of The Code And It Reads: 'for Purposes Of Paragraph 3, An Organization Described In Paragraph 2 Shall Be Deemed To Include An Organization Described In Section 501c-4, 5, Or 6, Which Would Be Described In Paragraph 2 If It Were An Organization Described In Section 501c-3.' And That's Just One Sentence Out Of Those Fifty-seven Feet Of Books.

It's Not Fair To Say That Congress Spends Money Like A Drunk Sailor. At Least The Sailor Is Spending His Own Money!

I Thought The Function Of The Government Was To Promote The General Welfare, Not To Provide It.

Double - No, Triple - Our Troubles And We'd Still Be Better Off Than Any Other People On Earth.

There Is No Security, No Safety, In The Appeasement Of Evil.

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.

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.

I Was Going To Have An Opening Statement, But I Decided That What I Was Going To Say I Wanted To Get A Lot Of Attention, So I'm Going To Wait And Leak It.

The Trouble With Our Liberal Friends Is Not That They're Ignorant; It's Just That They Know So Much That Isn't So.

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.

We Welcome Change And Openness; For We Believe That Freedom And Security Go Together, That The Advance Of Human Liberty Can Only Strengthen The Cause Of World Peace.

America Stands Unique In The World: The Only Country Not Founded On Race But On A Way, An Ideal. Not In Spite Of But Because Of Our Polyglot Background, We Have Had All The Strength In The World. That Is The American Way.

Well, My Head's Full Of Questions My Temp'rature's Risin' Fast Well, I'm Lookin' For Some Answers But I Don't Know Who To Ask

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.

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 Constitution Was Never Meant To Prevent People From Praying, It's Declared Purpose Was To Protect Their Freedom To Pray

Yet Optimism Is In Order, Because Day By Day Democracy Is Proving Itself To Be A Not-at-all-fragile Flower. From Stettin On The Baltic To Varna On The Black Sea, The Regimes Planted By Totalitarianism Have Had More Than 30 Years To Establish Their Legitimacy. But None - Not One Regime - Has Yet Been Able To Risk Free Elections. Regimes Planted By Bayonets Do Not Take Root.

We're Approaching The End Of A Bloody Century Plagued By A Terrible Political Invention, Totalitarianism. Optimism Comes Less Easily Today, Not Because Democracy Is Less Vigorous, But Because Democracy's Enemies Have Refined Their Instruments Of Repression.

We've Been Blessed With The Opportunity To Stand For Something - For Liberty And Freedom And Fairness. And These Are Things Worth Fighting For, Worth Devoting Our Lives To.

We Are Participating In The Orderly Transfer Of Administrative Authority By The Direction Of The People. And This Is The Simple Magic Which Makes A Commonplace Routine A Near Miracle To Many Of The World

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

I Believe The Best Social Program Is A Job.

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