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Freedom Is One Of The Deepest And Noblest Aspirations Of The Human Spirit. People, Worldwide, Hunger For The Right Of Self-determination, For Those Inalienable Rights That Make For Human Dignity And Progress. 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. Every Blow We Inflict Against Poverty Will Be A Blow Against Its Dark Allies Of Oppression And War. Every Victory For Human Freedom Will Be A Victory For World Peace.

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Freedom Is One Of The Deepest And Noblest Aspirations Of The Human Spirit. People, Worldwide, Hunger For The Right Of Self-determination, For Those Inalienable Rights That Make For Human Dignity And Progress. 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. Every Blow We Inflict Against Poverty Will Be A Blow Against Its Dark Allies Of Oppression And War. Every Victory For Human Freedom Will Be A Victory For World Peace.

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Freedom Is Always Just One Generation Away From Extinction. We Don't Pass It To Our Children In The Bloodstream. We Have To Fight For It And Protect It And Then Hand It To Them, So That They Shall Do The Same, Or We're Going To Find Ourselves Spending Our Sunset Years Telling Our Children And Our Children's Children, About A Time In America, Back In The Day, When Men And Women Were Free.

Christopher Columbus Was Looking For A Passage To India, But He Landed In America. He Landed In The Wrong Place, And When He Got Back, He Wasn't Sure Where He'd Been. But Most Important Of All, He Did It On Someone Else's Money.

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

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The Future Belongs To The Free.

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

As Long As There Are Guns, The Individual That Wants A Gun For A Crime Is Going To Have One And Going To Get It. The Only Person Who's Going To Be Penalized And Have Difficulty Is The Law-abiding Citizen, Who Then Cannot Have [it] If He Wants Protection -- The Protection Of A Weapon In His Home.

Our Enemies May Be Irrational, Even Outright Insane, Driven By Nationalism, Religion, Ethnicity Or Ideology. They Do Not Fear The United States For Its Diplomatic Skills Or The Number Of Automobiles And Software Programs It Produces. They Respect Only The Firepower Of Our Tanks, Planes And Helicopter Gunships.

Could There Be Anything But Widespread Misery, Where A Privileged Few Controlled A Nation's Wealth, While Millions Labored For A Pittance, And Millions More Were Desperate For Want Of Employment?

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A Hippie Is Someone Who Looks Like Tarzan, Walks Like Jane And Smells Like Cheetah.

Don't Be Afraid To See What You See.

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It Doesn't Require Expropriation Or Confiscation Of Private Property Or Business To Impose Socialism On A People. What Does It Mean Whether You Hold The Deed Or The Title To Your Business Or Property If The Government Holds The Power Of Life And Death Over That Business Or Property?

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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.

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Federal Reserve

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

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Divine Guidance

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Every New Day Begins With Possibilities.

New Possibilities

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I've Often Said There's Nothing Better For The Inside Of A Man Than The Outside Of A Horse.

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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.

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The American People Cannot Close Their Eyes To Abuses Of Human Rights And Injustice, Whether They Occur Among Friend Or Adversary Or Even On Our Own Shores.

Wearing Love Beads And Touting Our Sincerity Will Not Make This A Safer World.

I Wasn't A Great Communicator, But I Communicated Great Things, And They Didn't Spring Full-bloom From My Brow - They Came From The Heart Of A Great Nation.

It Should Be Clear To Everyone That The Nation's Steadfast Policy Should Afford Every American Of Working Age A Realistic Opportunity To Acquire The Ownership And Control Of Some Meaningful Form Of Property In A Growing National Economy.

Coersion, After All, Merely Captures Man. Freedom Captivates Him.

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.

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.

I Know That It Is Often Difficult To Stand Up For One's Beliefs When They Are Being Harshly Challenged. But As One Who Has Seen Many Challenges Over A Long Lifetime, I Can Assure You That Personal Faith And Conviction Are Strengthened, Not Weakened, In Adversity.

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.

My Fellow Citizens, Our Nation Is Poised For Greatness. We Must Do What We Know Is Right, And Do It With All Our Might. Let History Say Of Us: "these Were Golden Years - When The American Revolution Was Reborn, When Freedom Gained New Life, And America Reached For Her Best."

I Notice That All Of The People Who Support Abortion Are Already Born.

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

Everyone Is A Liberal Until They Have Something To Conserve. Then They Become A Conservative.

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

We Can Meet Our Destiny, And That Destiny To Build A Land Here That Will Be, For All Mankind, A Shining City On A Hill.

For Too Long, The Victims Of Crime Have Been The Forgotten Persons Of Our Criminal Justice System.

It's True Hard Work Never Killed Anybody, But I Figure, Why Take The Chance?

If Some Among You Fear Taking A Stand Because You Are Afraid Of Reprisals From Customers, Clients, Or Even Government, Recognize That You Are Just Feeding The Crocodile Hoping He'll Eat You Last.

I've Been Told That Some Members Of Congress Disagree With My Tax Cut Proposal. Well, You Know It's Been Said That Taxation Is The Art Of Plucking Feathers Without Killing The Bird. It's Time They Realized The Bird Just Doesn't Have Any Feathers Left.

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Whatever Else History May Say About Me When I'm Gone, I Hope It Will Record That I Appealed To Your Best Hopes, Not Your Worst Fears; To Your Confidence Rather Than Your Doubts. My Dream Is That You Will Travel The Road Ahead With Liberty's Lamp Guiding Your Steps And Opportunity's Arm Steadying Your Way.

Freedom Prospers Only Where The Blessings Of God Are Avidly Sought, And Humbly Accepted.

Freedom Is Indivisible - There Is No "s" On The End Of It. You Can Erode Freedom, Diminish It, But You Cannot Divide It And Choose To Keep "some Freedoms" While Giving Up Others.

Nothing Lasts Longer Than A Temporary Government Program.

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.

A Nation Without Borders Is No Nation At All.

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.

Anybody From Any Corner Of The World Can Come To America To Live And Become An American.

Live Simply, Love Generously, Care Deeply, Speak Kindly, Leave The Rest To God.

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.

Governments Don't Reduce Deficits By Raising Taxes On The People; Governments Reduce Deficits By Controlling Spending And Stimulating New Wealth.

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

You Know, If I Listened To Michael Dukakis Long Enough, I Would Be Convinced We're In An Economic Downturn And People Are Homeless And Going Without Food And Medical Attention And That We've Got To Do Something About The Unemployed.

I Do Not Feel Betrayed. ... He Has A Fine Record. He Is A National Hero. (on Oliver L North's Work)

Freedom Is Not The Sole Prerogative Of A Chosen Few, But The Universal Right Of All God's Children.

I'm Just A Citizen Temporarily In Public Service.

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.

If A Tax Hike Makes It To My Desk, I'll Veto It In Less Time Than It Takes Vanna White To Turn The Letters V-e-t-o!

If You Think You Can - You Can!

I Don't Have To Tell You How Fragile This Precious Gift Of Freedom Is. Every Time We Hear, Watch, Or Read The News, We Are Reminded That Liberty Is A Rare Commodity In This World.

Veterans And Freedom

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!

A Troubled And Afflicted Mankind Looks To Us, Pleading For Us To Keep Our Rendezvous With Destiny; That We Will Uphold The Principles Of Self-reliance, Self-discipline, Morality, And - Above All - Responsible Liberty For Every Individual That We Will Become That Shining City On A Hill.

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.

Wouldn't It Be Better For The Human Spirit And For The Soul Of This Nation To Encourage People To Accept More Responsibility To Care For Each Other Rather Than Leaving Those Tasks To Paid Bureaucrats.

Protecting The Rights Of Even The Least Individual Among Us Is Basically The Only Excuse The Government Has For Even Existing.

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.

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

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

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

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

The Nra Believes America's Laws Were Made To Be Obeyed And That Our Constitutional Liberties Are Just As Important Today As 200 Years Ago. And By The Way, The Constitution Does Not Say Government Shall Decree The Right To Keep And Bear Arms. The Constitution Says 'the Right Of The People To Keep And Bear Arms Shall Not Be Infringed.'

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

When We Speak Of Peace, We Should Not Mean Just The Absence Of War. True Peace Rests On The Pillars Of Individual Freedom, Human Rights, National Self-determination, And Respect For The Rule Of Law.

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

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.

Accepting A Government Grant With Its Accompanying Rules Is Like Marrying A Girl And Finding Out Her Entire Family Is Moving In With You Before The Honeymoon.

Excellence Does Not Begin In Washington.

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.

When A Child Loses His Parent, They Are Called An Orphan. When A Spouse Loses Her Or His Partner, They Are Called A Widow Or Widower. When Parents Lose Their Child, Their Isn't A Word To Describe Them. This Month Recognizes The Loss So Many Parents Experience Across The United States And Around The World. It Is Also Meant To Inform And Provide Resources For Parents Who Have Lost Children Due To Miscarriage, Ectopic Pregnancy, Molar Pregnancy, Stillbirths, Birth Defects, Sids, And Other Causes.

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