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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?

-Ronald Reagan

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Cannot Swords Be Turned

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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?

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Russian Language

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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.

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

No Government Ever Voluntarily Reduces Itself In Size. Government Programs, Once Launched, Never Disappear. Actually, A Government Bureau Is The Nearest Thing To Eternal Life We'll Ever See On This Earth!

Our Federal Tax System Is, In Short, Utterly Impossible, Utterly Unjust And Completely Counterproductive . . . [it] Reeks With Injustice, And Is Fundamentally Un-american

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

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

Freedom Is The Right To Question And Change The Established Way Of Doing Things. It Is The Continuing Revolution Of The Marketplace. It Is The Understanding That Allows Us To Recognize Shortcomings And Seek Solutions. It Is The Right To Put Forth An Idea, Scoffed At By The Experts, And Watch It Catch Fire Among The People. It Is The Right To Follow Your Dream, Or Stick To Your Conscience Even If You're The Only One In A Sea Of Doubters.

I Was 21 And Looking For Work In 1932, One Of The Worst Years Of The Great Depression. And I Can Remember One Bleak Night In The Thirties When My Father Learned On Christmas Eve That He'd Lost His Job. To Be Young In My Generation Was To Feel That Your Future Had Been Mortgaged Out From Under You, And That's A Tragic Mistake We Must Never Allow Our Leaders To Make Again.

The American Petroleum Institute Filed Suit Against The Epa [and] Charged That The Agency Was Suppressing A Scientific Study For Fear It Might Be Misinterpreted... The Suppressed Study Reveals That 80 Percent Of Air Pollution Comes Not From Chimneys And Auto Exhaust Pipes, But From Plants And Trees.

Never Let The Things You Can't Do, Stop You From Doing What You Can.

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.

I Saw Them; There Is Nothing Beautiful About Them, Just That They Are A Little Higher Than The Others. Referring To One Of The Oldest And Loveliest Groves Of Redwoods, Showing Insensitivity To Their Magnificence.

You Can Never Underestimate The Ability Of The Democrats To Wet Their Finger And Hold It In The Wind.

For The Average American, The Message Is Clear. Liberalism Is No Longer The Answer. It Is The Problem.

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 Must Realize That No Arsenal Or No Weapon In Arsenals Of The World Is So Formidable As The Will And Moral Courage Of Free Men And Women. It Is A Weapon Our Adversaries In Today's World Do Not Have. It Is A Weapon That We As Americans Do Have. Let That Be Understood By Those Who Practice Terrorism And Prey Upon Their Neighbors. 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. We Are Americans.

I Want You To Know That Also I Will Not Make Age An Issue Of This Campaign. I Am Not Going To Exploit, For Political Purposes, My Opponent's Youth And Inexperience.

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.

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.

No Longer Must Government Be Allowed To Ride Roughshod, Absorbing The People's Wealth, Usurping Their Rights, And Crushing Their Spirit.

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.

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.

America Is To Great To Dream Small Dreams.

Directly Down The Lawn And Accross The Ellipse From The White House Are Those Ordered, Classic Lines Of The Jefferson Memorial And The Eyes Of The 19-foot Statue That Gaze Directly Into The White House, A Reminder To Any Of Us Who Might Occupy That Mansion Of The Quality Of Mind And Generosity Of Heart That Once Abided There And Has Been So Rarely Seen There Again.

You Hear A Lot Of Jokes Every Once In A While About 'silent Cal Coolidge.' The Joke Is On The People Who Make The Jokes. Look At His Record. He Cut The Taxes Four Times. We Had Probably The Greatest Growth And Prosperity That We've Ever Known. I Have Taken Heed Of That Because If He Did That By Doing Nothing, Maybe That's The Answer.

We Are A Nation That Has A Government-not The Other Way Around. And That Makes Us Special Among The Nations Of The Earth.

The Struggle Now Going On For The World Will Never Be Decided By Bombs Or Rockets, By Armies Or Military Might. The Real Crisis We Face Today Is A Spiritual One; At Root, It Is A Test Of Moral Will And Faith.

We Can Have Peace And Brotherly Love By Accepting Our Responsibility To Preserve Freedom.

With All This Talk About The Supposed Strain In Relations [with The Soviet Union], There Is An Inference That Somehow It Is Our Fault. But We Didn't Kill Russian Civilians By Shooting Down A Civilian Airplane. We Didn't Attempt To Conquer An Adjacent Country To Ours. We Didn't Walk Out On Negotiations And Refuse To Give A Date For When We Would Resume.

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