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God...should Never Have Been Expelled From America's Schools. As We Struggle To Teach Our Children...we Dare Not Forget That Our Civilization Was Built By Men And Women Who Placed Their Faith In A Loving God. If Congress Can Begin Each Day With A Moment Of Prayer...so Then Can Our Sons And Daughters.

-Ronald Reagan

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God...should Never Have Been Expelled From America's Schools. As We Struggle To Teach Our Children...we Dare Not Forget That Our Civilization Was Built By Men And Women Who Placed Their Faith In A Loving God. If Congress Can Begin Each Day With A Moment Of Prayer...so Then Can Our Sons And Daughters.

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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.

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

We Are Going To Put An End To The Notion That The American Taxpayer Exists To Fund The Federal Government.

[the Soviets] Preach The Supremacy Of The State, Declare Its Omnipotence Over Individual Man, And Predict Its Eventual Domination Of All Peoples On The Earth; They Are The Focus Of Evil In The Modern World.

The More The Plans Fail, The More The Planners Plan.

I Have Wondered At Times What The Ten Commandments Would Have Looked Like If Moses Had Run Them Through The Us Congress.

I've Always Thought New Year's Day Was An Especially American Tradition, Full Of The Optimism And Hope We're Famous For In Our Daily Lives -- An Energy And Confidence We Call The American Spirit. Perhaps Because We Know We Control Our Own Destiny, We Believe Deep Down Inside That Working Together We Can Make Each New Year Better Than The Old.

America Is Too Great For Small Dreams.

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

Stick To Your Dreams And Determine That You're Going To Make Them Come True.

He Will Long Be Remembered As One Of The Great Christian Thinkers Of Our Century, With A Childlike Faith And A Profound Compassion Toward Others. It Can Rarely Be Said Of An Individual That His Life Touched Many Others And Affected Them For The Better; It Will Be Said Of Francis Schaeffer That His Life Touched Millions Of Souls And Brought Them To The Truth Of Their Creator.

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 Looked Out The Window And Saw This White Light.it Was Zigzagging Around. I Went Up To The Pilot And Said,have You Ever Seen Anything Like That? He Was Shocked And He Said, "nope." And I Said To Him: "let's Follow It!" We Followed It For Several Minutes. It Was A Bright White Light.we Followed It To Bakersfield, And All Of A Sudden To Our Utter Amazement It Went Straight Up Into The Heavens. When I Got Off The Plane I Told Nancy All About It.

We Establish No Religion In This Country. We Command No Worship. We Mandate No Belief, Nor Will We Ever. Church And State Are And Must Remain Separate.

America Is The Moral Force That Defeated Communism And All Those Who Would Put The Human Soul Itself Into Bondage.

As Two Proud And Independent Peoples, There Is Much That Distinguishes Us One From The Other, But There Is Also Much That We Share: A Vast Continent, With Its Common Hardships And Uncommon Duties; Generations Of Mutual Respect And Support, And An Abiding Friendship That Grows Ever Stronger.

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

Thomas Jefferson Once Said. He Said , "we Should Never Judge A President By His Age, Only By His Works." And Ever Since He Told Me That, I've Stopped Worrying. There Are Those Who Say I've Stopped Working.

I Would Have Voted Against The Civil Rights Act Of 1964.

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

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My Basic Rule Is That I Want People Who Don't Want A Job In Government.

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.

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?

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

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

I Believe The Best Social Program Is A Job.

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.

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

In Case Anybody Asks You About My Position On Capital Punishment, You Can Tell Them I Favor It; And If They Want To Know Why, You Can Tell Them This Story.

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?

We Seek A Constitutional Amendment To Permit Voluntary School Prayer. God Should Never Have Been Expelled From America's Classrooms In The First Place.

My Central Arms Control Objective Has Been To Reduce Substantially And Ultimately To Eliminate Nuclear Weapons And Rid The World Of The Nuclear Threat. The Prevention Of The Spread Of Nuclear Explosives Is To Additional Countries Is An Indispensable Part Of Our Efforts To Meet This Objective. I Intend To Continue My Pursuit Of This Goal With Untiring Determination And A Profound Sense Of Personal Commitment.

The Despicable North Korean Attack In Rangoon Deprived Us Of Trusted Advisers And Friends. So Many Of Those Who Died Had Won Admirers In America As They Studied With Us Or Guided Us With Their Counsel. I Personally Recall The Wisdom And Composure Of Foreign Minister Lee, With Whom I Met In Washington Just A Few Short Months Ago. To The Families And Countrymen Of All Those Who Were Lost, America Expresses Its Deep Sorrow.

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.

The [carter] Administration Doesn't Know The Difference Between A Diplomat And A Doormat.

And Children, If Your Parents Haven't Been Teaching You What It Means To Be An American, Let 'em Know And Nail 'em On It. That Would Be A Very American Thing To Do.

I Spoke To Ears That Refused To Hear.

History Comes And History Goes, But Principles Endure, And Ensure Future Generations Will Defend Liberty Not As A Gift From Government But As A Blessing From Our Creator.

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

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

Today, We're Taking A Break From The Concerns And The Bustle Of The Work-a-day World. But We're Also Making A New Beginning. As We Gather Around Our Dining Room Tables For The Midday Meal, 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.

The Bible And Its Teachings Helped Form The Basis For The Founding Fathers' Abiding Belief In The Inalienable Rights Of The Individual.

When Our Founding Fathers Passed The First Amendment, They Sought To Protect Churches From Government Interference. They Never Intended To Construct A Wall Of Hostility Between Government And The Concept Of Religious Belief Itself.

We May Be The Generation That Sees Armageddon.

You Know, By The Time You Reach My Age, You've Made Plenty Of Mistakes If You've Lived Your Life Properly.

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

George Burns . . . The Only Man I Know Who Does Fool Mother Nature.

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.

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

Fascism Was Really The Basis For The New Deal. It Was Mussolini's Success In Italy, With His Government-directed Economy, That Led The Early New Dealers To Say "but Mussolini Keeps The Trains Running On Time.

The United States Remains The Last Best Hope For A Mankind Plagued By Tyranny And Deprivation. America Is No Stronger Than Its People -- And That Means You And Me. Well, I Believe In You, And I Believe That If We Work Together, Then One Day We Will Say, "we Fought The Good Fight. We Finished The Race. We Kept The Faith." And To Our Children And Our Children's Children, We Can Say, "we Did All What Could Be Done In The Brief Time That Was Given Us Here On Earth.".

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

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

I Have Learned That One Of The Most Important Rules In Politics Is Poise - Which Means Looking Like An Owl After You Have Behaved Like A Jackass.

We Fought A War On Poverty, And Poverty Won

Hayek Is Amongst The Top 2-3 Of The All The People Who Ever Influenced Me.

I Think, Too, That We've Got To Recognize That Where The Preservation Of A Natural Resource Like The Redwoods Is Concerned, That There Is A Common Sense Limit. I Mean, If You've Looked At A Hundred Thousand Acres Or So Of Trees-you Know, A Tree Is A Tree, How Many More Do You Need To Look At? Opposing Expansion Of Redwood National Park.

The One Thing Our Founding Fathers Could Not Foresee - They Were Farmers, Professional Men, Businessmen Giving Of Their Time And Effort To An Idea That Became A Country - Was A Nation Governed By Professional Politicians Who Had An Interest In Getting Re-elected. They Probably Envisioned A Fellow Serving A Couple Of Hitches And Then Eagerly Looking Forward To Getting Back To The Farm.

Preservation Of Our Environment Is Not A Liberal Or Conservative Challenge, It's Common Sense.

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In 1992, The Federal Government Actually Issued More Work Authorizations To Immigrants And Temporary Foreign Workers Than The Net Number Of New Jobs Created By Our Economy. Something Is Fundamentally Wrong When We Have Millions Of American Citizens And Legal Residents Begging For Jobs, And Yet We Are Admitting Thousands And Thousands Of Immigrants A Year With Virtually No Consideration To Our Employment Needs Or Their Employment Skills.

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

We've Gone Astray From First Principles. We've Lost Sight Of The Rule That Individual Freedom And Ingenuity Are At The Very Core Of Everything That We've Accomplished. Government's First Duty Is To Protect The People, Not Run Their Lives.

Mr. Gorbachev, Tear Down This Wall!

By Emphasizing The Importance Of A Common Language, We Safeguard A Proud Legacy And Help To Ensure That America's Future Will Be As Great As Her Past.

Well, It [evolution] Is A Theory, It Is A Scientific Theory Only, And It Has In Recent Years Been Challenged In The World Of Science And Is Not Yet Believed In The Scientific Community To Be As Infallible As It Once Was Believed. But If It Was Going To Be Taught In The Schools, Then I Think That Also The Biblical Theory Of Creation, Which Is Not A Theory But The Biblical Story Of Creation, Should Also Be Taught.

There Seems To Be An Increasing Awareness Of Something We Americans Have Known For Some Time - That The Ten Most Dangerous Words In The English Language Are "hi, I'm From The Government, And I'm Here To Help."

The Future Doesn't Belong To The Light-hearted. It Belongs To The Brave.

There Are No Degrees Of Honesty.

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.

We Must Act Today In Order To Preserve Tomorrow

Governments Tend Not To Solve Problems, Only To Rearrange Them.

The Most Fundamental Paradox Is That If We're Never To Use Force, We Must Be Prepared To Use It And To Use It Successfully. We Americans Don't Want War And We Don't Start Fights. We Don't Maintain A Strong Military Force To Conquer Or Coerce Others. The Purpose Of Our Military Is Simple And Straightforward: We Want To Prevent War.

Every Dollar The Federal Government Does Not Take From Us, Every Decision It Does Not Make For Us, Will Make Our Economy Stronger, Our Lives More Abundant, Our Future More Free.

Life Involves Effort And Growth. You Won't Grow By Watching A Situation Comedy, Though You Can Grow By Reading A Book. I Hope We Aren't Becoming A Nation Of Watchers, Because What Made Us Great Is That We've Always Been A Nation Of Doers.

Eighty Percent Of Air Pollution Comes From Plants And Trees.

If We Listen To Our Hearts, Believe In Ourselves, And Pull Together, Nothing Can Stand In Our Way.

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.

One Hundred Nations In The Un Have Not Agreed With Us On Just About Everything That's Come Before Them, Where We're Involved, And It Didn't Upset My Breakfast At All.

The Future Belongs To The Free.

Government Is Not The Answer To The Problem - It Is The Problem.

Together, We'll Build A Far Better Future For America -- A Future Of Growth, Opportunity, And Security, Anchored By The Values Of A People Who Are Confident, Compassionate, And Whose Heart Is Good.

Concentrated Power Has Always Been The Enemy Of Liberty. Democracy Is Worth Dying For, Because It's The Most Deeply Honorable Form Of Government Ever Devised By Man.entrepreneurs And Their Small Enterprises Are Responsible For Almost All The Economic Growth In The United States.

You Know Economists; They're The Sort Of People Who See Something Works In Practice And Wonder If It Would Work In Theory.

I'm Not Smart Enough To Lie

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

There Is No Institution More Vital To Our Nation's Survival Than The American Family. Here The Seeds Of Personal Character Are Planted, The Roots Of Public Virtue First Nourished. Through Love And Instruction, Discipline, Guidance And Example, We Learn From Our Mothers And Fathers The Values That Will Shape Our Private Lives And Our Public Citizenship.

Doverey, No Proverey - Trust But Verify.

Either [jesus] Was What He Said He Was Or He Was The World's Greatest Liar. It Is Impossible For Me To Believe A Liar Or Charlatan Could Have Had The Effect On Mankind That He Has Had For 2000 Years. We Could Ask, Would Even The Greatest Of Liars Carry His Lie Through The Crucifixion, When A Simple Confession Would Have Saved Him? ... Did He Allow Us The Choice... To Believe In His Teaching But Reject His Statements About His Own Identity?

I've Talked To You On A Number Of Occasions About The Economic Problems Our Nation Faces, And I Am Prepared To Tell You It's In A Hell Of A Mess-we're Not Connected To The Press Room Yet, Are We?

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.

Ending Inflation Means Freeing All Americans From The Terror Of Runaway Living Costs. ... We Have Every Right To Dream Heroic Dreams. Those Who Say That We Are In A Time When There Are No Heroes Just Don't Know Where To Look. ... 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.

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 Can't Socialize The Doctors Without Socializing The Patients.

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.

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.

People Do Not Make Wars; Governments Do.

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.

You Can't Be For Big Government, Big Taxes And Big Bureaucracy And Still Be For The Little Guy.

Government Is Like A Baby. An Alimentary Canal With A Big Appetite At One End And No Sense Of Responsibility At The Other.

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)

The White House Is The Leakiest Place I've Ever Been In. (on Special Measures To Ensure Secrecy Of Plans To Bomb Libya)

For Us To Ignore By Inaction The Slaughter Of American Civilians And American Soldiers, Whether In Nightclubs Or Airline Terminals, Is Simply Not In The American Tradition. Self-defense Is Not Only Our Right, It Is Our Duty.

We Meant To Change A Nation, And Instead, We Changed A World.

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

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.

Even Now I Wonder What I Might Have Accomplished If I'd Studied Harder

To Sit Back Hoping That Someday, Some Way, Someone Will Make Things Right Is To Go On Feeding The Crocodile, Hoping He Will Eat You Last - But Eat You He Will.

Are You Better Off Today Than You Were Four Years Ago?

After Watching The State Of The Union Address The Other Night [1994], I'm Reminded Of The Old Adage That Imitation Is The Sincerest Form Of Flattery. Only In This Case, It's Not Flattery, But Grand Larceny: The Intellectual Theft Of Ideas That You And I Recognize As Our Own. Speech Delivery Counts For Little On The World Stage Unless You Have Convictions, And, Yes, The Vision To See Beyond The Front Row Seats.

There Was A Time When "sound As A Dollar" Was A Description, Not A Joke.

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.

Facts Are Stupid Things Stubborn Things, I Should Say.

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

Latinos Are Republican. They Just Don't Know It Yet.

I Believe No Challenge Is More Important To The Character Of America Than Restoring The Right To Life To All Human Beings.

Intelligence Reports Say Castro Is Very Worried About Me. I'm Very Worried That We Can't Come Up With Something To Justify His Worrying.

I'm A Sucker For Hero Worship.

Nations Crumble From Within When The Citizenry Asks Of Government Those Things Which The Citizenry Might Better Provide For Itself.

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.

Extreme Taxation, Excessive Controls, Oppressive Government Competition With Business, Frustrated Minorities And Forgotten Americans Are Not The Products Of Free Enterprise. They Are The Residue Of Centralized Bureaucracy, Of Government By A Self-anointed Elite.

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.

Throughout America Today, We Honor The Dead Of Our Wars. We Recall Their Valor And Their Sacrifices. We Remember They Gave Their Lives So That Others Might Live.

State Problems Should Involve State Solutions.

I Oppose Registration For The Draft... Because I Believe The Security Of Freedom Can Best Be Achieved By Security Through Freedom.

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.

Well, I Think There Has To Be Some (gun) Control.

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.

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

Socialists Ignore The Side Of Man That Is The Spirit. They Can Provide You Shelter, Fill Your Belly With Bacon And Beans, Treat You When You're Ill, All The Things Guaranteed To A Prisoner Or A Slave. They Don't Understand That We Also Dream.

You Know, By The Time You Reach My Age, You've Made Plenty Of Mistakes If You've Lived Your Life Properly. So You Learn. You Put Things In Perspective. You Pull Your Energies Together. You Change. You Go Forward. My Fellow Americans, I Have A Great Deal That I Want To Accomplish With You And For You Over The Next Two Years. And, The Lord Willing, That's Exactly What I Intend To Do.

In 1939 Winston Churchill, Describing The 5000-mile Peaceful Border Dividing Canada And The United States, Said, 'that Long Frontier From The Atlantic To The Pacific Oceans, Guarded Only By Neighborly Respect And Honorable Obligations, Is An Example To Every Country And A Pattern For The Future Of The World.

If History Teaches Anything, It Teaches That Self-delusion In The Face Of Unpleasant Facts Is Folly.

Self-defense Is Not Only Our Right; It Is Our Duty.

For Too Long, Too Many People Dependent On Social Security Have Been Cruelly Frightened By Individuals Seeking Political Gain Through Demagoguery And Outright Falsehood, And This Must Stop.

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.

Our Loyalty Lies With Little Taxpayers, Not Big Spenders. What Our Critics Really Believe Is That Those In Washington Know Better How To Spend Your Money Than You, The People, Do. But We're Not Going To Let Them Do It, Period.

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

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.

In An Ironic Sense, Karl Marx Was Right. We Are Witnessing Today A Great Revolutionary Crisis, A Crisis Where The Demands Of The Economic Order Are Conflicting Directly With Those Of The Political Order. But The Crisis Is Happening Not In The . . . West, But In The Home Of Marxism-leninism, The Soviet Union. It Is The Soviet Union That Runs Against The Tide Of History By Denying Human Freedom And Human Dignity To Its Citizens.

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.

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."

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.

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

You Can Achieve Anything In Politics Provided That You Let Someone Else Take The Credit.

I'm Spending More Time At This Library In Four Days Than I Did At The Eureka College Library In Four Years.

You And I Have A Rendezvous With Destiny. We Will Preserve For Our Children This, The Last Best Hope Of Man On Earth, Or We Will Sentence Them To Take The First Step Into A Thousand Years Of Darkness. If We Fail, At Least Let Our Children And Our Children’s Children Say Of Us We Justified Our Brief Moment Here. We Did All That Could Be Done.

Only Our Deep Moral Values And Our Strong Social Institutions Can Hold Back That Jungle And Restrain The Darker Impulses Of Human Nature.

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

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.

There Is No Greater Happiness For A Man Than Approaching A Door At The End Of A Day Knowing Someone On The Other Side Of That Door Is Waiting For The Sound Of His Footsteps.

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.

Like The Genocide Of The Armenians Before It, And The Genocide Of The Cambodians Which Followed It ... The Lessons Of The Holocaust Must Never Be Forgotten.

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.

Those Who Advocate More And More Government Regulation Have Been Experimenting For 40 Years, Trying To Create An Economic System In Which Everyone Can Somehow Be Made More Prosperous By The Toil Of Someone Else.

The Federalist Society Is Changing The Culture Of Our Nation's Law Schools. You Are Returning The Values And Concepts Of Law As Our Founders Understood Them To Scholarly Dialogue, And Through That Dialogue, To Our Legal Institutions.

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

How Do You Tell A Communist? Well, It's Someone Who Reads Marx And Lenin. And How Do You Tell An Anti-communist? It's Someone Who Understands Marx And Lenin.

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?

Some Years Ago, The Federal Government Declared War On Poverty, And Poverty Won.

Government Is Never More Dangerous Than When Our Desire To Have It Help Us Blinds Us To Its Great Power To Harm Us.

Freedom Is The Very Essence Of Our Nation. To Be Sure, Ours Is Not A Perfect Nation. But Even With Our Troubles, We Remain The Beacon Of Hope For Oppressed Peoples Everywhere. Never Give Up The Fight For Freedom - A Fight Which, Though It May Never End, Is The Most Ennobling Known To Man.

The Work Of Volunteer Groups Throughout Our Country Represents The Very Heart And Soul Of America. They Have Helped Make This The Most Compassionate, Generous, And Humane Society That Ever Existed On The Face Of This Earth.

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

When Cruelty Is Inflicted On Innocent People, It Discredits Whatever Cause.

I'm Not A Politician By Profession. I Am A Citizen Who Decided I Had To Be Personally Involved.

People Who Think A Tax Boost Will Cure Inflation Are The Same Ones Who Believe Another Drink Will Cure A Hangover.

We Now Know That Inflation Results From All That Deficit Spending.

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

In My Eighty Years, I Prefer To Call That The Forty-first Anniversary Of My Thirty Ninth Birthday, I've Seen What Men Can Do For Each Other And Do To Each Other, I've Seen War And Peace, Feast And Famine, Depression And Prosperity, Sickness And Health. I've Seen The Depth Of Suffering And The Peaks Of Triumph And I Know In My Heart That Man Is Good, That What Is Right Will Always Eventually Triumph And That There Is Purpose And Worth To Each And Every Life.

These Gentlemen Are The Moral Equivalents Of America's Founding Fathers.

If You Don't Know Whether A Body Is Alive Or Dead, You Would Never Bury It. I Think This Consideration Itself Should Be Enough For All Of Us To Insist On Protecting The Unborn.

I Want To Talk About Political And Economic Fairy Tales.

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.

Elvis Epitomised America, And For That We Shall Be Eternally Grateful. There Will Never Be Anyone Else Like Him. Let's All Rejoice In His Music.

I Have Come To The Conclusion That The 22nd Amendment [limiting The Presidency To Two Terms] Was A Mistake. Shouldn't The People Have The Right To Vote For Someone As Many Times As They Want To Vote For Him?

There Are Worse Things To Be Called Than A Dreamer.

We Don't Celebrate Dependence Day On The Fourth Of July. We Celebrate Independence Day.

. . . And Always Remember That You Are Americans, And It Is Your Birthright To Dream Great Dreams In This Sweet And Blessed Land, Truly The Greatest, Freest, Strongest Nation On Earth.

The Greatest Leader Is Not Necessarily The One Who Does The Greatest Things. He Is The One That Gets The People To Do The Greatest Things.

Information Is The Oxygen Of The Modern Age.

My Mother Told Me That Everything In Life Happened For A Purpose. She Said All Things Were Part Of God's Plan, Even The Most Disheartening Setbacks, And In The End, Everything Worked Out For The Best.

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.

The Best Social Reform Program In The World Is A Job.

It Has Been Said That Politics Is The Second Oldest Profession. I Have Learned That It Bears A Striking Resemblance To The First.

Show Me An Executive That Works Long Hard Hours And I'll Show You A Bad Executive.

These Are The Values Inspiring Those Brave Workers In Poland. The Values That Have Inspired Other Dissidents Under Communist Domination. They Remind Us That Where Free Unions And Collective Bargaining Are Forbidden, Freedom Is Lost.

It's Said That Prayer Can Move Mountains. Well, It's Certainly Moved The Hearts And Minds Of Americans In Their Times Of Trial And Helped Them To Achieve A Society That, For All Its Imperfections, Is Still The Envy Of The World And The Last, Best Hope Of Mankind.

Our Nation Will Prosper Or Decline In Direct Proportion To Our Selection Of Leaders Who Are Guided By The Holy Spirit. If We Fail To Select Godly Leaders Our Destiny Will Surely Be As That Of The Roman Empire.

There Are Simple Answers To The Nation's Problems, But Not Easy Ones.

We Hear Much Of Special Interest Groups. Well, Our Concern Must Be For A Special Interest Group That Has Been Too Long Neglected. It Knows No Sectional Boundaries Or Ethnic And Racial Divisions, And It Crosses Political Party Lines. It Is Made Up Of Men And Women Who Raise Our Food, Patrol Our Streets, Man Our Mines And Factories, Teach Our Children, Keep Our Homes, And Heal Us When We're Sick - Professionals, Industrialists, Shopkeepers, Clerks, Cabbies, And Truck Drivers. They Are, In Short, "we The People," This Breed Called Americans.

I Doubt Evolution Is Real.

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

If History Teaches Us Anything, It Teaches That Simple-minded Appeasement Or Wishful Thinking About Our Adversaries Is Folly.

Our Liberties, Our Values, All For Which America Stands Is Safe Today Because Brave Men And Women Have Been Ready To Face The Fire At Freedom's Front. And We Thank God For Them.

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.

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.

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.

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

It's Time That We Recognized That Ours Was In Truth A Noble Cause.

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