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I Just Have To Believe That With Love For Our Natural Heritage And A Firm Resolve To Preserve It With Wisdom And Care, We Can And Will Give The American Land To Our Children, Not Impaired, But Enhanced. And In Doing This, We'll Honor The Great And Loving God Who Gave Us This Land In The First Place.

-Ronald Reagan

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Ronald Reagan

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I Just Have To Believe That With Love For Our Natural Heritage And A Firm Resolve To Preserve It With Wisdom And Care, We Can And Will Give The American Land To Our Children, Not Impaired, But Enhanced. And In Doing This, We'll Honor The Great And Loving God Who Gave Us This Land In The First Place.

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When The Labor Department Is Forced To Relent And Let These Visitors Do This Work It Is Of Course All Legal. But It Makes One Wonder About The Illegal Alien Fuss. Are Great Numbers Of Our Unemployed Really Victims Of The Illegal Alien Invasion Or Are Those Illegal Tourists Actually Doing Work Our Own People Won't Do? One Thing Is Certain In This Hungry World; No Regulation Or Law Should Be Allowed If It Results In Crops Rotting In The Field For Lack Of Harvesters.

On Father's Day, We Pay Tribute To All In Our Society Who Have Taken On The Responsibilities And Joys Of Fatherhood. Whether Our Fathers Are Near At Hand Or A Continent Away, With Their Families Or Watching From The Light Of Eternity, We Take This Day To Remember Them, To Say Our Thanks For The Years They Have Given Us, And To Ask That They Receive God's Blessings.

Through You, We Feel As Giants, Once Again.

People Don't Start Wars, Governments Do.

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

Deep Religious Beliefs Stemming From The Old And New Testaments Of The Bible Inspired Many Of The Early Settlers Of Our Country, Providing Them With The Strength, Character, Convictions, And Faith Necessary To Withstand Great Hardship And Danger In This New And Rugged Land. These Shared Beliefs Helped Forge A Sense Of Common Purpose Among The Widely Dispersed Colonies - A Sense Of Community Which Laid The Foundation For The Spirit Of Nationhood That Was To Develop In Later Decades.

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

The Things That Unite Us-america's Past Of Which We Are So Proud, Our Hopes And Aspirations For The Future Of The World And This Much Loved Country-these Things Far Outweigh What Little Divides Us.

The Crew Of The Space Shuttle Challenger Honored Us By The Manner In Which They Lived Their Lives.

I've Always Believed That This Blessed Land Was Set Apart In A Special Way, That Some Divine Plan Placed This Great Continent Here Between The Oceans To Be Found By People From Every Corner Of The Earth Who Had A Special Love For Freedom And The Courage To Uproot Themselves, Leave Homeland And Friends, To Come To A Strange Land. And Coming Here They Created Something New In All The History Of Mankind-a Land Where Man Is Not Beholden To Government, Government Is Beholden To Man.

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.

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

My Philosophy Of Life Is That If We Make Up Our Mind What We Are Going To Make Of Our Lives, Then Work Hard Toward That Goal, We Never Lose - Somehow We Win Out.

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

The Signs Of The Vietnam War Protestors Said "make Love Not War!" It Didn't Seem To Me That They Were Capable Of Either.

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

The Constitution Was Never Meant To Prevent People From Praying, It's Declared Purpose Was To Protect Their Freedom To Pray

My Fellow Americans, I Must Speak To You Tonight About A Mounting Danger In Central America That Threatens The Security Of The United States. This Danger Will Not Go Away It Will Grow Worse, Much Worse, If We Fail To Take Action Now.

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

When Plo Sniper Fire Is Followed By 14 Hours Of Israeli Bombardment, That's Stretching The Definition Of Defensive Action Too Far.

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

If You Serve A Child A Rotten Hamburger In America, Federal, State, And Local Agencies Will Investigate You, Summon You, Close You Down, Whatever. But If You Provide A Child With A Rotten Education, Nothing Happens, Except That You're Liable To Be Given More Money To Do It With. Well, We've Discovered That Money Alone Isn't The Answer.

I Once Played A Sheriff Who Thought He Could Do The Job Without A Gun. I Was Dead In Twenty-seven Minutes Of A Thirty Minute Show.

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

We Have Every Right To Dream Heroic Dreams.

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.'

Perhaps No Custom Reveals Our Character As A Nation So Clearly As Our Celebration Of Thanksgiving Day. Rooted Deeply In Our Judeo-christian Heritage, The Practice Of Offering Thanksgiving Underscores Our Unshakable Belief In God As The Foundation Of Our Nation And Our Firm Reliance Upon Him From Whom All Blessings Flow.

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.

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

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.

At The Root Of Everything That We’re Trying To Accomplish Is The Belief That America Has A Mission. We Are A Nation Of Freedom, Living Under God, Believing All Citizens Must Have The Opportunity To Grow, Create Wealth, And Build A Better Life For Those Who Follow. If We Live Up To Those Moral Values, We Can Keep The American Dream Alive For Our Children And Our Grandchildren, And America Will Remain Mankind’s Best Hope.

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.

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