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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.

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Government Is Not A

Ronald Reagan

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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.

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They [the Soviet Union] Are The Focus Of Evil In The Modern World.

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

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

We Are At War With The Most Dangerous Enemy That Has Ever Faced Mankind In His Long Climb From The Swamp To The Stars, And It Has Been Said If We Lose That War, And In So Doing Lose This Way Of Freedom Of Ours, History Will Record With The Greatest Astonishment That Those Who Had The Most To Lose Did The Least To Prevent Its Happening.

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.

We Must Be Cautious In Claiming God Is On Our Side. I Think The Real Question We Must Answer Is, Are We On His Side?

To Paraphrase Winston Churchill, I Did Not Take The Oath I Have Just Taken With The Intention Of Presiding Over The Dissolution Of The World's Strongest Economy.

Common Sense Told Us That To Preserve The Peace, We'd Have To Become Strong Again After Years Of Weakness And Confusion. So, We Rebuilt Our Defenses, And This New Year We Toasted The New Peacefulness Around The Globe. Not Only Have The Superpowers Actually Begun To Reduce Their Stockpiles Of Nuclear Weapons...but The Regional Conflicts That Rack The Globe Are Also Beginning To Cease.

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

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

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

Money Can't Buy Happiness, But It Will Certainly Get You A Better Class Of Memories.

I Miss Going To Church, But I Think The Lord Understands.

The Other Day, Someone Told Me The Difference Between A Democracy And A People's Democracy. It's The Same Difference Between A Jacket And A Straitjacket.

They Don't Worship At The Altar Of Forced Busing And Mandatory Quotas. They Don't Believe You Can Remedy Past Discrimination By Mandating New Discrimination. (defending His Nominees For Civil Rights Commission)

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.

Are You Better Off Than You Were Four Years Ago? One Of My Favorite Quotes Is It Easier For You To Go And Buy Things In The Stores ... Is There More Or Less Unemployment?

America's Best Days Lie Ahead. You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet.

...i Believe That It Is Not Enough, As I Said, To Tinker At The Margins Of U.s. Immigration Law... The United States Must Institute Comprehensive Reforms That Conform To The Realities Of The Era In Which We Live.

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But The Simple Truth Is That We've Lost Control Of Our Own Borders, And No Nation Can Do That And Survive.

The Problem Is Not That People Are Taxed Too Little, The Problem Is That Government Spends Too Much.

Our National Motto - 'in God We Trust' - Was Not Chosen Lightly. It Reflects A Basic Recognition That There Is A Divine Authority In The Universe To Which This Nation Owes Homage.

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

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.

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

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.

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Our Country And State Have A Special Obligation To Work Toward The Stabilization Of Our Own Population So As To Credibly Lead Other Parts Of The World Toward Population Stabilization.

We Should Measure Welfare's Success By How Many People Leave Welfare, Not By How Many Are Added.

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I Know That Some Believe That Voluntary Prayer In Schools Should Be Restricted To A Moment Of Silence. We Already Have The Right To Remain Silent - We Can Take Our Fifth Amendment.

All Great Change In America Begins At The Dinner Table.

A Tree's A Tree. How Many More Do You Need To Look At?

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Freedom-loving People Around The World Must Say . . . I Am A Refugee In A Crowded Boat Foundering Off The Coast Of Vietnam. I Am Laotian, A Cambodian, A Cuban, And A Miskito Indian In Nicaragua. I, Too, Am A Potential Victim Of Totalitarianism.

Without God, Democracy Will Not And Cannot Long Endure.

I Welcome This Chance To Further Strengthen The Unbreakable Ties Between The United States And Israel And To Assure You Of Our Commitment To Israel's Security And Well-being. Israel And America May Be Thousands Of Miles Apart, But We Are Philosophical Neighbors Sharing A Strong Commitment To Democracy And The Rule Of Law. What We Hold In Common Are The Bonds Of Trust And Friendship, Qualities That In Our Eyes Make Israel A Great Nation. No People Have Fought Longer, Struggled Harder, Or Sacrificed More Than Yours In Order To Survive, To Grow, And To Live In Freedom

Sometimes When I'm Faced With An Atheist, I Am Tempted To Invite Him To The Greatest Gourmet Dinner That One Could Ever Serve, And When We Have Finished Eating That Magnificent Dinner, To Ask Him If He Believes There's A Cook.

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There Is No Limit To The Amount Of Good You Can Do If You Don't Care Who Gets The Credit.

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We Will Always Remember. We Will Always Be Proud. We Will Always Be Prepared, So We Will Always Be Free.

One Day, A Pretty, Fresh-faced Young Lady - Intelligent And Sincerely Concerned - Asked Me If Abortion Wasn't Preferable To Making A Young, Unmarried Girl Have A Baby She Didn't Want And Which Would, Therefore, Grow Up Unloved And Probably Turn Out To Be A Criminal. I Gave An Answer Which Apparently She Hadn't Considered. I Told Her There Were Literally Millions Of People In This Country Who Wanted But Could Not Have Children And Who Waited Eagerly, Sometimes For Years, To Adopt The Baby She Had Described.

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

I Think The Presidency Is An Institution Over Which You Have Temporary Custody.

For Centuries The Bible's Emphasis On Compassion And Love For Our Neighbor Has Inspired Institutional And Governmental Expressions Of Benevolent Outreach Such As Private Charity, The Establishment Of Schools And Hospitals, And The Abolition Of Slavery.

Fascism Was Really The Basis For The New Deal.

We In Government Should Learn To Look At Our Country With The Eyes Of The Entrepreneur, Seeing Possibilities Where Others See Only Problems

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!

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

I Hope Americans Will Read And Study The Bible In The Coming Year. It's My Firm Belief That The Enduring Values, As I Say, Presented In Its Pages Have A Great Meaning For Each Of Us And For Our Nation.

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.

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The Purpose Of America Is To Unleash The Full Talent And Genius Of Every Individual.

Our Moral Imperative Is To Work With All Our Powers For That Day When The Children Of The World Grow Up Without The Fear Of Nuclear War.

We Will Remain Steady. We Will Pursue Every Avenue In The Search For Peace And Stability.

Generations Hence, Parents Will Take Their Children To These Woods To Show Them How The Land Must Have Looked To The First Pilgrims And Pioneers. And As Americans Wander Through These Forests, Climb These Mountains, They Will Sense The Love And Majesty Of The Creator Of All Of That.

A Stronger Defense Is An Investment In Peace.

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.

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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?

More Than A Decade Ago, A Supreme Court Decision Literally Wiped Off The Books Of Fifty States Statutes Protecting The Rights Of Unborn Children. Abortion On Demand Now Takes The Lives Of Up To 1.5 Million Unborn Children A Year. Human Life Legislation Ending This Tragedy Will Some Day Pass The Congress, And You And I Must Never Rest Until It Does. Unless And Until It Can Be Proven That The Unborn Child Is Not A Living Entity, Then Its Right To Life, Liberty, And The Pursuit Of Happiness Must Be Protected.

Pursuit Of Happiness

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.

I Remain California-bound

If The Soviet Union Let Another Political Party Come Into Existence, They Would Still Be A One-party State, Because Everybody Would Join The Other Party.

America Needs Jobs And Opportunity, Not Make-work And Handouts.

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.

I Heard One Presidential Candidate Say That What This Country Needed Was A President For The Nineties. I Was Set To Run Again. I Thought He Said A President In His Nineties.

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.

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.

If Our Planes Were Shot Down, Yes, They's Wake Me Right Away. If The Other Fellows' Were Shot Down, Why Wake Me Up?

American Politics

Balancing Your Budget Is Like Protecting Your Virtue. You Have To Learn When To Say No.

Please Tell Me You're Republicans.

A Political Party Cannot Be All Things To All People. It Must Represent Certain Fundamental Beliefs Which Must Not Be Compromised To Political Expediency, Or Simply To Swell Its Numbers.

I Believe That The Most Essential Element Of Our Defense Of Freedom Is Our Insistence On Speaking Out For The Cause Of Religious Liberty.

If It Takes A Bloodbath Now Let's Get It Over With.

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?

Trains Are Not Any More Energy Efficient Than The Average Automobile, With Both Getting About 48 Passenger Miles To The Gallon.

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

I Believe With All My Heart That Our First Priority Must Be World Peace, And That Use Of Force Is Always And Only A Last Resort, When Everything Else Has Failed, And Then Only With Regard To Our National Security.

Entrepreneurs Are The Forgotten Heroes Of America.

While I Take Inspiration From The Past, Like Most Americans, I Live For The Future.

I Can't Claim To Know The Words Of All The National Anthems In The World, But I Don't Know Of Any Other That Ends With A Question And A Challenge As Ours Does: Does That Flag Still Wave O'er The Land Of The Free And The Home Of The Brave? That Is What We Must All Ask.

We're Approaching The End Of A Bloody Century Plagued By A Terrible Political Invention, Totalitarianism. Optimism Comes Less Easily Today, Not Because Democracy Is Less Vigorous, But Because Democracy's Enemies Have Refined Their Instruments Of Repression.

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.

We Were Told Four Years Ago That 17 Million People Went To Bed Hungry Each Night. Well That Was Probably True. They Were All On A Diet.

I Do Not Believe In A Fate That Will Fall On Us No Matter What We Do. I Do Believe In A Fate That Will Fall On Us If We Do Nothing.

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.

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

If Not Us, Who? And If Not Now, When?

Middle Age Is When You're Faced With Two Temptations And You Choose The One That Will Get You Home By Nine O'clock.

Going Around This Country, I Have Found A Great Hunger In America For Spiritual Revival; For A Belief That Law Must Be Based On A Higher Law; For A Return To Traditions And Values That We Once Had. Our Government, In Its Most Sacred Documents - The Constitution And The Declaration Of Independence And All - Speak Of Man Being Created, Of A Creator; That We're A Nation Under God.

Will You Resist The Temptation To Get A Government Handout For Your Community? Realize That The Doctor's Fight Against Socialized Medicine Is Your Fight. We Can't Socialize The Doctors Without Socializing The Patients. Recognize That Government Invasion Of Public Power Is Eventually An Assault Upon Your Own Business.

We Must Always Meet Our Obligation To Those Who Fall Behind Without Our Assistance. But Let's Remember, Without A Race There Can Be No Champion, No Records Broken, No Excellence - In Education Or Any Other Walk Of Life.

There Is Nothing Wrong With America That Americans Can't Fix.

A People Free To Choose Will Always Choose Peace.

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.

That's The Nice Thing About This Job. You Get To Quote Yourself Shamelessly. If You Don't, Larry Speakes Will.

Nothing Lasts Longer Than A Temporary Government Program.

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.

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.

Has Anyone Stopped To Consider That We Might Come Closer To Balancing The Budget If All Of Us Simply Tried To Live Up To The Ten Commandments And The Golden Rule?

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.

I Believe Moses Was 80 When God First Commissioned Him For Public Service.

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

There Are Only Two Things That The Liberals Don't Understand: The Things That Change And The Things That Don't.

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

This Crime Against Humanity Must Never Be Forgotten.

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.

... The Moral Equal Of Our Founding Fathers.

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

My Belief Has Always Been... That Wherever In This Land Any Individual's Constitutional Rights Are Being Unjustly Denied, It Is The Obligation Of The Federal Government-at Point Of Bayonet If Necessary-to Restore That Individual's Constitutional Rights

What Would This Country Be Without This Great Land Of Ours.

An Actor Knows Two Important Things - To Be Honest In What He Is Doing And To Be In Touch With The Audience. That's Not Bad Advice For A Politician Either.

I'd Like To Harness Their Youthful Energy With A Strap.

With The Right To Bear Arms Comes A Great Responsibility To Use Caution And Common Sense On Handgun Purchases.

Indeed, It Is An Indisputable Fact That All The Complex And Horrendous Questions Confronting Us At Home And Worldwide Have Their Answer In That Single Book [the Bible].

The War In Vietnam Threatened To Tear Our Society Apart, And The Political And Philosophical Disagreements That Separated Each Side Continue, To Some Extent. It's Been Said That These Memorials Reflect A Hunger For Healing.

Our Natural, Inalienable Rights Are Now Considered To Be A Dispensation From Government, And Freedom Has Never Been So Fragile, So Close To Slipping From Our Grasp As It Is At This Moment.

Alec Has Forged A Unique Partnership Between State Legislators And Leaders From The Corporate And Business Community. This Partnership Offers Businessmen The Extraordinary Opportunity To Apply Their Talents To Solve America's Problems And Build On Our Opportunities.

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.

I Am Told That Tens Of Thousands Of Prayer Meetings Are Being Held On This Day; For That I Am Deeply Grateful. We Are A Nation Under God, And I Believe God Intended For Us To Be Free. It Would Be Fitting And Good, I Think, If On Each Inaugural Day In Future Years It Should Be Declared A Day Of Prayer.

Whether Meeting With Leaders And Parents Concerned About Drugs In Bonn, Lisbon, Or With The Holy Father At The Vatican, Or Doing A Pretty Fair Flamenco In Madrid, I Think Nancy's One Of The Best Ambassadors America's Ever Had.

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

Cold, Hungry, Scared As Hell Inside, But Too Damn Brave To Admit It.

Supporters Of This Fundamental Change In Immigration Policy Say We Need To Import More Well-educated Talent If We're To Stay Competitive. But Exactly Whose Competitiveness Are We Talking About? Not The Competitiveness Of, Say, American-born Computer Engineers. Adjusted For Inflation, Their Earnings Haven't Gone Anywhere In Years. That's In Part Because American Companies Have Been Sending So Much Of Their High-tech Work Abroad. Bringing More Foreign-born Engineers Here Under An Expanded H1-b Visa Program, Or A Point System For That Matter, Will Just Depress Wages Even Further.

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

Could There Be A Better Answer To The Stupidity Of Karl Marx Than Millions Of Workers Individually Sharing In The Ownership Of The Means Of Production.

Freedom Prospers When Religion Is Vibrant And The Rule Of Law Under God Is Acknowledged.

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

All Of Us Can See What Happens Once You Establish The Precedent That The Government Can Determine A Man's Working Place And His Working Methods, Determine His Employment. From Here It's A Short Step To All The Rest Of Socialism, To Determining His Pay....he Will Wait For The Government To Tell Him Where He Will Go To Work And What He Will Do.

I'm No Linguist, But I Have Been Told That In The Russian Language, There Isn't Even A Word For Freedom.

Russian Language

I've Often Wondered, What If All Of Us In The World Discovered That We Were Threatened By An Outer -- A Power From Outer Space, From Another Planet. Wouldn't We All Of A Sudden Find That We Didn't Have Any Differences Between Us At All, We Were All Human Beings, Citizens Of The World, And Wouldn't We Come Together To Fight That Particular Threat?

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

America's Foreign Policy Supports Freedom, Democracy, And Human Dignity For All Mankind, And We Make No Apologies For It. The Opportunity Society That We Want For Ourselves We Also Want For Others, Not Because We're Imposing Our System On Others But Because Those Opportunities Belong To All People As God-given Birthrights And Because By Promoting Democracy And Economic Opportunity We Make Peace More Secure.

If We Look To The Answer As To Why For So Many Years We Achieved So Much, Prospered As No Other People On Earth, It Was Because Here In This Land We Unleashed The Energy And Individual Genius Of Man To A Greater Extent Than Has Ever Been Done Before. Freedom And The Dignity Of The Individual Have Been More Available And Assured Here Than In Any Other Place On Earth. The Price For This Freedom At Times Has Been High, But We Have Never Been Unwilling To Pay That Price.

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

And There Is The Matter Of Abortion. We Must With Calmness And Resolve Help The Vast Majority Of Our Fellow Americans Understand That The More Than 112 Million Abortions Performed In America In 1980 Amount To A Great Moral Evil, An Assault On The Sacredness Of Human Life.

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.

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

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.

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.

I Was Alarmed At My Doctor's Report: He Said I Was Sound As A Dollar.

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.

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.

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.

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

I've Long Believed That One Of The Mainsprings Of Our Own Liberty Has Been The Widespread Ownership Of Property Among Our People And The Expectation That Anyone's Child, Even From The Humblest Of Families, Could Grow Up To Own A Business Or A Corporation. Thomas Jefferson Dreamed Of A Land Of Small Farmers, Of Shopowners, And Merchants. Abraham Lincoln Signed Into Law The Homestead Act That Ensured That The Great Western Prairies Of America Would Be The Realm Of Independent, Propertyowning Citizens-a Mightier Guarantee Of Freedom Is Difficult To Imagine.

We're The Party That Wants To See An America In Which People Can Still Get Rich.

All Systems Are Capitalist. It's Just A Matter Of Who Owns And Controls The Capital -- Ancient King, Dictator, Or Private Individual. We Should Properly Be Looking At The Contrast Between A Free Market System Where Individuals Have The Right To Live Like Kings If They Have The Ability To Earn That Right And Government Control Of The Market System Such As We Find Today In Socialist Nations.

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.

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

If You Want More Of Something, Subsidize It; If You Want Less Of Something, Tax It.

So In Your Discussions Of The Nuclear Freeze Proposals, I Urge You To Beware The Temptation Of Pride - The Temptation Blithely To Declare Yourselves Above It All And Label Both Sides Equally At Fault, To Ignore The Facts Of History And The Aggressive Impulses Of An Evil Empire, To Simply Call The Arms Race A Giant Misunderstanding And Thereby Remove Yourself From The Struggle Between Right And Wrong, Good And Evil.

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.

Americans Are Hungering To Feel Proud And Patriotic Again.

Everywhere We Go, Nancy Makes The World A Little Better.

Let Us Renew Our Faith That As Free Men And Women We Still Have The Power To Better Our Lives.

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.

I Believe That Communism Is Another Sad, Bizarre Chapter In Human History Whose Last Pages Even Now Are Being Written. I Believe This Because The Source Of Our Strength In The Quest For Human Freedom Is Not Material, But Spiritual. And Because It Knows No Limitation, It Must Terrify And Ultimately Triumph Over Those Who Would Enslave Their Fellow Men.

If I'd Gotten The Job I Wanted At Montgomery Ward, I Suppose I Would Never Have Left Illinois.

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

Doverey, No Proverey - Trust But Verify.

Today It Is Difficult To Find Leaders Who Are Independent Of The Forces That Have Brought Us Our Problems: The Congress, The Bureaucracy, The Lobbyists, Big Business, And Big Labor.

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

Deficits, As I've Often Said, Aren't Caused By Too Little Taxing, They're Caused By Too Much Spending. Presidents Can't Appropriate A Dollar Of Tax Payers Money, Only Congressmen Can; And Congress Is Susceptible To All Sorts Of Influences That Have Nothing To Do With Good Government.

We Who Live In Free Market Societies Believe That Growth, Prosperity And Ultimately Human Fulfillment, Are Created From The Bottom Up, Not The Government Down.

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'm Not Smart Enough To Lie

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. And If It Stops Moving, Subsidize It.

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