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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.

-Ronald Reagan

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Ronald Reagan

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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.

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The Time Has Come To Turn To God And Reassert Our Trust In Him.

Spiritual Renewal

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

Isn't Our Choice Really Not One Of Left Or Right, But Of Up Or Down? Down Through The Welfare State To Statism, To More And More Government Largesse Accompanied Always By More Government Authority, Less Individual Liberty, And Ultimately, Totalitarianism, Always Advanced As For Our Own Good. The Alternative Is The Dream Conceived By Our Founding Fathers, Up To The Ultimate In Individual Freedom Consistent With An Orderly Society.

I Feel That The Whole Western World Will Benefit By The Resurrection Of The Neutron Bomb Project.

We Can't Socialize The Doctors Without Socializing The Patients.

It's Difficult To Believe That People Are Still Starving In This Country Because Food Isn't Available.

America Is To Great To Dream Small Dreams.

We're More Than Friends And Neighbors And Allies; We Are Kin, Who Together Have Built The Most Productive Relationship Between Any Two Countries In The World Today.

We Fought A War On Poverty, And Poverty Won

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

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

... A Faceless Mass, Waiting For Handouts.

Honey, I Forgot To Duck

We Can't Have It Both Ways. We Can't Expect God To Protect Us In A Crisis And Just Leave Him Over There On The Shelf In Our Day-to-day Living. I Wonder If Sometimes He Isn't Waiting For Us To Wake Up, He Isn't Maybe Running Out Of Patience.

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

Could There Be Anything Resembling A Free Enterprise Economy, If Wealth And Property Were Concentrated In The Hands Of A Few, While The Great Majority Owned Little More Than The Shirts On Their Backs?

If The Federal Government Had Been Around When The Creator Was Putting His Hand To This State, Indiana Wouldn't Be Here. It'd Still Be Waiting For An Environmental Impact Statement.

Government Does Not Solve Problems; It Subsidizes Them.

I Doubt Evolution Is Real.

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

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

In Closing, Let Me Thank You, The American People, For Giving Me The Great Honor Of Allowing Me To Serve As Your President. When The Lord Calls Me Home, Whenever That Day May Be, I Will Leave With The Greatest Love For This Country Of Ours And Eternal Optimism For Its Future. I Now Begin The Journey That Will Lead Me Into The Sunset Of My Life. I Know That For America There Will Always Be A Bright Dawn Ahead.

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.

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

Fascism Was Really The Basis For The New Deal.

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

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

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.

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

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

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."

Outside Of Its Legitimate Function, Government Does Nothing As Well Or Economically As The Private Sector.

The Difference Between Them And Us Is That We Want To Check Government Spending And They Want To Spend Government Checks.

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

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

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

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