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Deep Religious Beliefs Stemming From The Old And New Testaments Of The Bible Inspired Many Of The Early Settlers Of Our Country, Providing Them With The Strength, Character, Convictions, And Faith Necessary To Withstand Great Hardship And Danger In This New And Rugged Land. These Shared Beliefs Helped Forge A Sense Of Common Purpose Among The Widely Dispersed Colonies - A Sense Of Community Which Laid The Foundation For The Spirit Of Nationhood That Was To Develop In Later Decades.

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Deep Religious Beliefs Stemming

Ronald Reagan

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Deep Religious Beliefs Stemming From The Old And New Testaments Of The Bible Inspired Many Of The Early Settlers Of Our Country, Providing Them With The Strength, Character, Convictions, And Faith Necessary To Withstand Great Hardship And Danger In This New And Rugged Land. These Shared Beliefs Helped Forge A Sense Of Common Purpose Among The Widely Dispersed Colonies - A Sense Of Community Which Laid The Foundation For The Spirit Of Nationhood That Was To Develop In Later Decades.

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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.

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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.

The Economic Welfare Of All Our People Must Ultimately Stem Not From Government Programs, But From The Wealth Created By A Vigorous Private Sector.

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

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

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.

I Knew Thomas Jefferson. He Was A Friend Of Mine. And Believe Me, You Are No Thomas Jefferson. (at 1992 Republican Party Convention, Referring To Bill Clinton)

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Don't Let Anyone Tell You That America's Best Days Are Behind Her - That The American Spirit Has Been Vanquished. We've Seen It Triumph Too Often In Our Lives To Stop Believing In It Now.

Government Is Not A Solution To Our Problem Government Is The Problem.

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Where Others Fear Trade And Economic Growth, We See Opportunities For Creating New Wealth And Undreamed-of Opportunities For Millions In Our Own Land And Beyond. Where Others Seek To Throw Up Barriers, We Seek To Bring Them Down; Where Others Take Counsel Of Their Fears, We Follow Our Hopes.

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

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.

Isn't It Interesting That All Of Those People Who Support The Choice Of Abortion Have Already Been Born?

Perhaps No Custom Reveals Our Character As A Nation So Clearly As Our Celebration Of Thanksgiving Day.

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.

You And I Are Told We Must Choose Between A Left Or Right, But I Suggest There Is No Such Thing As A Left Or Right. There Is Only An Up Or Down. Up To Man's Age-old Dream -- The Maximum Of Individual Freedom Consistent With Order --or Down To The Ant Heap Of Totalitarianism. Regardless Of Their Sincerity, Their Humanitarian Motives, Those Who Would Sacrifice Freedom For Security Have Embarked On This Downward Path.

Unless Bureaucracy Is Constantly Resisted, It Breaks Down Representative Government And Overwhelms Democracy.

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

Information Is The Oxygen Of The Modern Age. It Seeps Through The Walls Topped By Barbed Wire, It Wafts Across The Electrified Borders.

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. It Is A Weapon Our Adversaries In Today's World Do Not Have.

These Young Americans Sent A Message To Terrorists Everywhere. . . . You Can Run But You Can't Hide.

I've Noticed That Everyone Who Is For Abortion Has Already Been Born.

We The People Tell The Government What To Do, It Doesn't Tell Us.

Two Visions Of The World Remain Locked In Dispute. The First Believes All Men Are Created Equal By A Loving God Who Has Blessed Us With Freedom. The Second Vision Believes That Religion Is Opium For The Masses. It Believes That Eternal Principles Like Truth, Liberty, And Democracy Have No Meaning Beyond The Whim Of The State. And [vladimir] Lenin Spoke For Them.

Constructive Trade, The Two-way Exchange Of Goods And Services, Is The Most Efficient And Logical Way For Each Nation . . . To Build A Stable Prosperity, A Prosperity Based Not On Aid, But On Mutually Beneficial Economic Contacts.

Conservatives Were Brought Up To Hate Deficits And Justifiably So. We've Long Thought There Are Two Things In Washington That Are Unbalanced - The Budget And The Liberals.

I Want You To Know That This Administration Is Motivated By A Political Philosophy That Sees The Greatness Of America In You, Her People, And In Your Families, Churches, Neighborhoods, Communities - The Institutions That Foster And Nourish Values Like Concern For Others And Respect For The Rule Of Law Under God.

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.

One Of The Traditional Methods Of Imposing Statism Or Socialism On A People Has Been By Way Of Medicine. It’s Very Easy To Disguise A Medical Program As A Humanitarian Project, Most People Are A Little Reluctant To Oppose Anything That Suggests Medical Care For People Who Possibly Can’t Afford It.

No Matter What Time It Is, Wake Me, Even If It's In The Middle Of A Cabinet Meeting.

We Have The Means To Change The Laws We Find Unjust Or Onerous. We Cannot, As Citizens, Pick And Choose The Laws We Will Or Will Not Obey.

I'm Convinced, More Than Ever, That Man Finds Liberation Only When He Binds Himself To God And Commits Himself To His Fellow Man.

F You Analyze It I Believe The Very Heart And Soul Of Conservatism Is Libertarianism. I Think Conservatism Is Really A Misnomer Just As Liberalism Is A Misnomer For The Liberals - If We Were Back In The Days Of The Revolution, So-called Conservatives Today Would Be The Liberals And The Liberals Would Be The Tories. The Basis Of Conservatism Is A Desire For Less Government Interference Or Less Centralized Authority Or More Individual Freedom And This Is A Pretty General Description Also Of What Libertarianism Is.

We Must Reject The Idea That Every Time A Law's Broken, Society Is Guilty Rather Than The Lawbreaker. It Is Time To Restore The American Precept That Each Individual Is Accountable For His Actions.

To This Day, America Is Still The Abiding Alternative To Tyranny. This Is Our Purpose In The World, Nothing More And Nothing Less.

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