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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.

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Education Is Like A

Ronald Reagan

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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.

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Freedom Is The Right To Question And Change The Established Way Of Doing Things.

Freedom Liberty

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.'

A Bird On A Tether, No Matter How Long The Rope, Can Always Be Pulled Back.

Man Is Not Free Unless Government Is Limited.

There Is No Foundation Like The Rock Of Honesty And Fairness, And When You Begin To Build Your Life On That Rock, With The Cement Of The Faith In God That You Have, Then You Have A Real Start.

There Are No Limits To Growth And Human Progress When Men And Women Are Free To Follow Their Dreams.

I Don't Know What I Expected, But My First Morning In The Oval Office Had A Surprising Ring Of Familiarity To It. It Reminded Me A Lot Of My Job As Governor.

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.

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

You On The Cutting Edge Of Technology Have Already Made Yesterday's Impossibilities The Commonplace Realities Of Today.

Hope Remains The Highest Reality, The Age-old Power.

I Won't Hold My Opponent's Youth And Inexperience Against Him.

Going To College Offered Me The Chance To Play Football For Four More Years.

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.

They've Done Away With Those Committees. That Shows The Success Of What The Soviets Were Able To Do In This Country.

We're Here To Mark That Day In History When The Allied Peoples Joined In Battle To Reclaim This Continent To Liberty. For Four Long Years, Much Of Europe Had Been Under A Terrible Shadow. Free Nations Had Fallen, Jews Cried Out In The Camps, Millions Cried Out For Liberation. Europe Was Enslaved, And The World Prayed For Its Rescue. Here In Normandy The Rescue Began. Here The Allies Stood And Fought Against Tyranny In A Giant Undertaking Unparalleled In Human History.

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?

The Criminal Element Now Calculates That Crime Really Does Pay.

Every New Day Begins With Possibilities.

New Possibilities

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)

When People Tell Me That I Became President On January 20th, 1981, I Feel I Have To Correct Them. You Don't Become President Of The United States. You Are Given Temporary Custody Of An Institution Called The Presidency, Which Belongs To Our People.

I Am Very Proud To Be Called A Pig. It Stands For Pride, Integrity And Guts.

Now, I Happen To Be An Optimist.

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

For The People Of Israel And America Are Historic Partners In The Global Quest For Human Dignity And Freedom. We Will Always Remain At Each Other's Side.

They Don't Subscribe To Our Sense Of Morality; They Don't Believe In An Afterlife; They Don't Believe In A God Or Religion. And The Only Morality They Recognize, Therefore, Is What Will Advance The Cause Or Socialism.

I Like Photographers - You Don't Ask Questions. (to A Gathering Of The White House News Photographers Association)

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

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Nations Do Not Distrust Each Other Because They Are Armed. They Are Armed Because They Distrust Each Other.

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.

Dreams Became Issues Of East Versus West. Hopes Became Political Rhetoric. Progress Became A Search For Power And Domination. Somewhere The Truth Was Lost That People Don't Make War, Governments Do.

America Has Begun A Spiritual Reawakening. Faith And Hope Are Being Restored. Americans Are Turning Back To God. Church Attendance Is Up. Audiences For Religious Books And Broadcasts Are Growing. And I Do Believe That He Has Begun To Heal Our Blessed Land.

The Person Who Pays An Ounce Of Principle For A Pound Of Popularity Gets Badly Cheated.

Simple Morality Dictates That Unless And Until Someone Can Prove The Unborn Human Is Not Alive, We Must Give It The Benefit Of The Doubt And Assume It Is (alive). And, Thus, It Should Be Entitled To Life, Liberty And The Pursuit Of Happiness.

Pursuit Of Happiness

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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

This Administration Is Totally Colorblind.

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

Revenues Should Be Increased Not By Increasing The Tax Rates On The Individual But By Building A Bigger Economy For Everybody.

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

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.

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Without A Vision The People Perish.

There Were So Many Candidates On The Platform That There Were Not Enough Promises To Go Around.

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We Were Poor When I Was Young But The Difference Was That The Government Didn't Come Around Telling You You Were Poor.

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Pursuit Of Happiness

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The Joke In Our Family Is That We Can Cry Reading The Phone Book.

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America's Best Days Are Yet To Come.

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We Owe This Freedom Of Choice And Action To Those Men And Women In Uniform Who Have Served This Nation And Its Interests In Time Of Need. In Particular, We Are Forever Indebted To Those Who Have Given Their Lives That We Might Be Free.

I Was Raised To Believe That God Has A Plan For Everyone And That Seemingly Random Twists Of Fate Are All A Part Of His Plan.

In This Springtime Of Hope, Some Lights Seem Eternal; America's Is.

Government Is The People's Business And Every Man, Woman And Child Becomes A Shareholder With The First Penny Of Tax Paid.

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Young Americans Must Never Again Be Sent To Fight And Die Unless We Are Prepared To Let Them Win.

Margaret Thatcher - This Great Lady Has Not Only Served Her Country Well, She Has Served The Free World Well.

Within The Covers Of The Bible Are The Answers For All The Problems Men Face.

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.

Medicare Will Usher In Federal Programs That Will Invade Every Area Of Freedom As We Have Know It In This Country.

A Moment I've Been Dreading. George Brought His Ne're-do-well Son Around This Morning And Asked Me To Find The Kid A Job. Not The Political One Who Lives In Florida. The One Who Hangs Around Here All The Time Looking Shiftless. This So-called Kid Is Already Almost 40 And Has Never Had A Real Job. Maybe I'll Call Kinsley Over At The New Republic And See If They'll Hire Him As A Contributing Editor Or Something. That Looks Like Easy Work.

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.

I Have A Feeling That We Are Doing Better In The War Than The People Have Been Told.

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.

We Can't Help Everyone, But Everyone Can Help Someone.

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

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

The District Of Columbia Is One Gigantic Ear.

We Could Say The Government Spend Like Drunken Sailors, But That Would Be Unfair To Drunken Sailors, Because The Sailors Are Spending Their Own Money.

Where There's Liberty, Art Succeeds.

Politics Is Just Like Show Business. You Have A Hell Of An Opening, Coast For A While, And Then Have A Hell Of A Close.

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.

Our Nation Is Indeed Fortunate That We Can Still Draw On An Immense Reservoir Of Courage, Character, And Fortitude, That We Are Still Blessed With Heroes Like Those Of The Space Shuttle Challenger. Man Will Continue His Conquest Of Space. To Reach Out For New Goals And Ever-greater Achievements, That Is The Way We Shall Commemorate Our Seven Challenger Heroes.

You'd Be Surprised How Much Being A Good Actor Pays Off.

I've Said It Before And I'll Say It Again. The U.s. Geological Survey Has Told Me That The Proven Potential For Oil In Alaska Alone Is Greater Than The Proven Reserves In Saudi Arabia.

The Current Tax Code Is A Daily Mugging.

If You Put It On The Table As A Bargaining Chip, It Becomes A Bargaining Chip

Jesse Helms Wants Me To Move To The Right, Lowell Weiker Wants Me To Move To The Left, And Teddy Kennedy Wants Me To Move Back To California.

I Know I'm Not In Government Anymore. In Fact I'm Out Of Work.

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.

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.

For The Eight Years I Was President I Never Let My Dream Of A Nuclear-free World Fade From My Mind.

The Man Who Puts Into The Marriage Only Half Of What He Owns Will Get That Out.

The Nine Most Terrifying Words In The English Language Are "i'm From The Government, And I'm Here To Help."

I Will Stand On, And Continue To Use, The Figures I Have Used, Because I Believe They Are Correct. Now, I'm Not Going To Deny That You Don't Now And Then Slip Up On Something; No One Bats A Thousand.

Do What's Right And You'll Please Some Of The People And Astound The Rest.

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)

The Men Of Normandy Had Faith That What They Were Doing Was Right, Faith That They Fought For All Humanity, Faith That A Just God Would Grant Them Mercy On This Beachhead Or The Next. It Was The Deep Knowledge - And Pray God We Have Not Lost It - That There Is A Profound Moral Difference Between The Use Of Force For Liberation And The Use Of Force For Conquest.

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.

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

What Is Important Is That One Strives To Achieve A Goal.

I Call Upon The Scientific Community In Our Country, Those Who Gave Us Nuclear Weapons, To Turn Their Great Talents Now To The Cause Of Mankind And World Peace: To Give Us The Means Of Rendering These Nuclear Weapons Impotent And Obsolete.

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

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.

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

There Are Worse Things To Be Called Than A Dreamer.

Individual Liberty Depends Upon Keeping Government Under Control.

America Was Founded By People Who Believe That God Was Their Rock Of Safety. I Recognize We Must Be Cautious In Claiming That God Is On Our Side, But I Think It's All Right To Keep Asking If We're On His Side.

Unless And Until It Can Be Proven That An Unborn Child Is Not A Living Human Being, Can We Justify Assuming Without Proof That It Isn't? No One Has Yet Offered Such Proof; Indeed, All The Evidence Is To The Contrary.

Public Servants Say, Always With The Best Of Intentions, 'what Greater Service We Could Render If Only We Had A Little More Money And A Little More Power.' But The Truth Is That Outside Of Its Legitimate Function, Government Does Nothing As Well Or As Economically As The Private Sector.

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.

We Need More Democrats In The Senate -like Custer Needed More Arrows.

I Have Seen The Rise Of Fascism And Communism. Both Philosophies Glorify The Arbitrary Power Of The State... But Both Theories Fail. Both Deny Those God-given Liberties That Are The Inalienable Right Of Each Person On This Planet, Indeed, They Deny The Existence Of God.

You Know, It Was Only A Generation Ago That Actors Couldn't Be Buried In The Churchyard.

America Is Still An Eagle, And She's Ready To Soar Again.

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.

Over Hundred Years Ago Abraham Lincoln Signed The Homestead Act. There Was Wide Distribution Of Land And They Didn't Confiscate Anyone's Privately Owned Land... We Need An Industrial Homestead Act.

It's Not That Liberals Aren't Smart, It's Just That So Much Of What They Know Isn't So

Freedom Is The Recognition That No Single Person, No Single Authority Or Government Has A Monopoly On The Truth, But That Every Individual Life Is Infinitely Precious, That Every One Of Us Put In This World Has Been Put There For A Reason And Has Something To Offer.

My Golf-loving Friend Bob Hope Asked Me What My Handicap Was, So I Told Him - The Congress.

All The Waste In A Year From A Nuclear Power Plant Can Be Stored Under A Desk.

I Am Not A Scientist.

The Years Ahead Will Be Great Ones For Our Country, For The Cause Of Freedom And The Spread Of Civilization. The West Will Not Contain Communism, It Will Transcend Communism. We Will Not Bother To Denounce It, We'll Dismiss It As A Sad, Bizarre Chapter In Human History Whose Last Pages Are Even Now Being Written.

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!

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.

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

I Never Drink Coffee At Lunch. I Find It Keeps Me Awake For The Afternoon.

Don't Let The Doom Criers And The Cynics Persuade You That The Best Is Past.

We Have Found, In Our Country, That When People Have The Right To Make Decisions As Close To Home As Possible, They Usually Make The Right Decisions.

Anytime You And I Question The Schemes Of The Do-gooders, We're Denounced As Being Against Their Humanitarian Goals. They Say We're Always "against" Things-we're Never "for" Anything. Well, The Trouble With Our Liberal Friends Is Not That They're Ignorant; It's Just That They Know So Much That Isn't So.

Well, The Task I've Set Forth Will Long Outlive Our Own Generation. But Together, We Too Have Come Through The Worst. Let Us Now Begin A Major Effort To Secure The Best- A Crusade For Freedom That Will Engage The Faith And Fortitude Of The Next Generation. For The Sake Of Peace And Justice, Let Us Move Toward A World In Which All People Are At Last Free To Determine Their Own Destiny.

When The Lord Calls Me Home, Whenever That May Be, I Will Leave With The Greatest Love For This County Of Ours And Eternal Optimism For Its Future.

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

Those Who Have Known Freedom And Then Lost It, Have Never Known It Again

There You Go Again. When I Opposed Medicare, There Was Another Piece Of Legislation Meeting The Same Problem Before The Congress. I Happened To Favor The Other Piece Of Legislation And Thought That It Would Be Better For The Senior Citizens To Provide Better Care Than The One That Was Finally Passed.

There Can Be No Greater Good Than The Quest For Peace, And No Finer Purpose Than The Preservation Of Freedom.

Government Exists To Protect Us From Each Other. Where Government Has Gone Beyond Its Limits Is In Deciding To Protect Us From Ourselves.

The Basis Of Conservatism Is A Desire For Less Government Interference Or Less Centralized Authority Or More Individual Freedom...

It Is The Soviet Union That Runs Against The Tide Of Human History By Denying Human Freedom And Human Dignity To Its Citizens.

In Our Observances This Memorial Day, We Honor The Brave Americans Who Paid The Highest Price For Their Commitment To The Ideals Of Peace, Freedom, And Justice. Our Debt To Them Can Be Paid Only By Our Own Recommitment To Preserving Those Same Ideals.

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.

The Democrats Say That The United States Has Had Its Days In The Sun, That Our Nation Has Passed Its Zenith. They Expect You To Tell Your Children That The American People No Longer Have The Will To Cope With Their Problems, That The Future Will Be One Of Sacrifice And Few Opportunities. My Fellow Citizens, I Utterly Reject That View.

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.

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

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

My Friends, We Did It. We Weren't Just Marking Time, We Made A Difference. We Made (america) Stronger - We Made (america) Freer - And We Left Her In Good Hands. All In All, Not Bad. Not Bad At All. And So, Goodbye. God Bless You. And God Bless The United States Of America.

Through The History Of Our Nation, Americans Have Always Extended Their Hands In Gestures Of Assistance.

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

Let Us Ask Ourselves; "what Kind Of People Do We Think We Are?"

We Cannot Diminish The Value Of One Category Of Human Life -- The Unborn -- Without Diminishing The Value Of All Human Life . . . There Is No Cause More Important.

Bobby Kennedy Is So Concerned With Poverty Because He Didn't Have Any As A Kid.

This Country Was Founded And Built By People With Great Dreams And The Courage To Take Great Risks.

The Same Government That Requires A Taxpaying Citizen To Document Every Statement On His Tax Return Decrees That Questioning A Welfare Applicant Demeans And Humiliates Him.

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

And How Stands The City On This Winter Night? More Prosperous, More Secure, And Happier Than It Was 8 Years Ago. But More Than That: After 200 Years, Two Centuries, She Still Stands Strong And True On The Granite Ridge, And Her Glow Has Held Steady No Matter What Storm. And She's Still A Beacon, Still A Magnet For All Who Must Have Freedom, For All The Pilgrims From All The Lost Places Who Are Hurtling Through The Darkness, Toward Home.

The Freedom Of Thought And Action We Americans Enjoy Today Seems As Natural As The Air We Breathe. But There Is A Danger We May Take This Freedom For Granted. We Must Never Forget It Was Bought For Us At A Great Price. The Brave And Resourceful Americans Whose Sacrifices Gained Our Independence And Preserved It For More Than 200 Years Against Formidable Foes Have Set An Example Of Unflinching Loyalty To The Ideal Of Liberty And Justice For All.

Justice For All

I Recently Learned Something Quite Interesting About Video Games. Many Young People Have Developed Incredible Hand, Eye, And Brain Coordination In Playing These Games. The Air Force Believes These Kids Will Be Our Outstanding Pilots Should They Fly Our Jets.

Elena, My Four Year Old, Says To Me In All Seriousness; "mommy, You Need To Buy Another Baby".

Since I Came To The White House, I Got Two Hearing Aids, A Colon Operation, Skin Cancer, A Prostate Operation, And I Was Shot. The Damn Thing Is, I've Never Felt Better In My Life.

An Old Russian Woman Goes Into Kremlin, Gets An Audience With Mikhail Gorbachev And Says, In America Anyone Can Go To The White House, Walk Up To Reagan's Desk And Say, 'i Don't Like The Way You Are Running The Country.' Gorbachev Replied, You Can Do The Same Thing In The Soviet Union. You Can Go Into The Kremlin, Walk Up To My Desk And Say 'i Don't Like The Way Reagan Is Running His Country.'

It Should Be The Right Of The Individual To Decide Whether He Wants To Belong To A Union.

There Are No Great Limits To Growth Because There Are No Limits Of Human Intelligence, Imagination, And Wonder.

Intelligence Services

Law And Freedom Must Be Indivisible Partners. For Without Law, There Can Be No Freedom, Only Choas And Disorder; And Without Freedom, Law Is But A Cynical Veneer For Injustice And Oppression.

A State Is Nothing More Than A Reflection Of Its Citizens; The More Decent The Citizens, The More Decent The State.

More Than Any Gift Or Toy, Ornament Of Tree, Let Us Resolve That This Christmas Shall Be, Like That First Christmas, A Celebration Of Interior Treasures.

A Strong American Economy Is Essential To The Well-being And Security Of Our Friends And Allies.

I, For One, Resent It When A Representative Of The People Refers To You And Me, The Free Men And Women Of This Country, As 'the Masses.'

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

By Working Together, Pooling Our Resources And Building On Our Strengths, We Can Accomplish Great Things.

Working Together

Throughout Our History, We Americans Have Been Willing To Meet Great Challenges And Do What Is Right When Our Destiny Demanded It.

And Let Us Never Forget That In Honoring Our Flag, We Honor The American Men And Women Who Have Courageously Fought And Died For It Over The Last 200 Years, Patriots Who Set An Ideal Above Any Consideration Of Self. Our Flag Flies Free Today Because Of Their Sacrifice.

I Know All The Bad Things That Happened In That War. I Was In Uniform Four Years Myself.

One Of Mankind's Problems Is We Keep Committing The Same Errors.

We Can Look Forward To The Day When The Free Flow Of Trade, From The Southern Reaches Of Tierra Del Fuego To The Northern Outposts Of The Arctic Circle, Unites The People Of The Western Hemisphere In A Bond Of Mutually Beneficial Exchange, When All Borders Become What The U.s.-canadian Border So Long Has Been: A Meeting Place, Rather Than A Dividing Line.

If You're Explaining, You're Losing.

We Cannot Survive As A Free Nation When Some Men Decide That Others Are Not Fit To Live And Should Be Abandoned To Abortion Or Infanticide...t Here Is No Cause More Important For Preserving That Freedom Than Affirming The Transcendent Right To Life Of All Human Beings, The Right Without Which No Other Rights Have Any Meaning.

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.

We In America Have Learned Bitter Lessons From Two World Wars: It Is Better To Be Here [in Europe] Ready To Protect The Peace, Than To Take Blind Shelter Across The Sea, Rushing To Respond Only After Freedom Is Lost. We've Learned That Isolationism Never Was And Never Will Be An Acceptable Response To Tyrannical Governments With An Expansionist Intent.

The Family Has Always Been The Cornerstone Of American Society.

American Society

In This Present Crisis, Government Is Not The Solution To Our Problem; Government Is The Problem. From Time To Time We've Been Tempted To Believe That Society Has Become Too Complex To Be Managed By Self-rule, That Government By An Elite Group Is Superior To Government For, By, And Of The People. Well, If No One Among Us Is Capable Of Governing Himself, Then Who Among Us Has The Capacity To Govern Someone Else? All Of Us Together, In And Out Of Government, Must Bear The Burden.

If We Don't Want To See The Map Of Central America Covered In A Sea Of Red, Eventually Lapping At Our Own Borders, We Must Act Now.

We Must Remove Government's Smothering Hand From Where It Does Harm; We Must Seek To Revitalize The Proper Functions Of Government. We Do These Things To Set Loose Again The Energy And The Ingenuity Of The American People. We Do These Things To Reinvigorate Those Social And Economic Institutions Which Serve As A Buffer And A Bridge Between The Individual And The State - And Which Remain The Real Source Of Our Progress As A People.

...100% Of What Is Collected Is Absorbed Solely By Interest On The Federal Debt...all Individual Income Tax Revenues Are Gone Before One Nickel Is Spent On The Services Taxpayers Expect From Government.

Words Are Even More Feeble On This Memorial Day, For The Sight Before Us Is That Of A Strong And Good Nation That Stands In Silence And Remembers Those Who Were Loved And Who, In Return, Loved Their Countrymen Enough To Die For Them.

This Crime Against Humanity Must Never Be Forgotten.

As We Celebrate Thanksgiving, We Should Reflect On The Full Meaning Of This Day As We Enjoy The Fellowship That Is So Much A Part Of The Holiday Festivities. Searching Our Hearts, We Should Ask What We Can Do As Individuals To Demonstrate Our Gratitude To God For All He Has Done. Such Reflection Can Only Add To The Significance Of This Precious Day Of Remembrance.

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