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I Just Wanted To Speak To You About Something From The Internal Revenue Code. It Is The Last Sentence Of Section 509a Of The Code And It Reads: 'for Purposes Of Paragraph 3, An Organization Described In Paragraph 2 Shall Be Deemed To Include An Organization Described In Section 501c-4, 5, Or 6, Which Would Be Described In Paragraph 2 If It Were An Organization Described In Section 501c-3.' And That's Just One Sentence Out Of Those Fifty-seven Feet Of Books.

-Ronald Reagan

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I Just Wanted To Speak To You About Something From The Internal Revenue Code. It Is The Last Sentence Of Section 509a Of The Code And It Reads: 'for Purposes Of Paragraph 3, An Organization Described In Paragraph 2 Shall Be Deemed To Include An Organization Described In Section 501c-4, 5, Or 6, Which Would Be Described In Paragraph 2 If It Were An Organization Described In Section 501c-3.' And That's Just One Sentence Out Of Those Fifty-seven Feet Of Books.

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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.

If You're Explaining, You're Losing.

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The Arts And Humanities Teach Us Who We Are And What We Can Be. They Lie At The Very Core Of The Culture Of Which We're A Part.

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

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 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

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

I Am Not A Scientist.

Status Quo, You Know, Is Latin For 'the Mess We're In'.

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.

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

I Received A Letter Just Before I Left Office From A Man. I Don't Know Why He Chose To Write It, But I'm Glad He Did. He Wrote That You Can Go To Live In France, But You Can't Become A Frenchman. You Can Go To Live In Germany Or Italy, But You Can't Become A German, An Italian. He Went Through Turkey, Greece, Japan And Other Countries. But He Said Anyone, From Any Corner Of The World, Can Come To Live In The United States And Become An American.

Wherever A Beautiful Soul Has Been There Is A Trail Of Beautiful Memories.

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.

They Are Our Brothers, These Freedom Fighters.... They Are The Moral Equal Of Our Founding Fathers And The Brave Men And Women Of The French Resistance. We Cannot Turn Away From Them, For The Struggle Here Is Not Right Versus Left; It Is Right Versus Wrong.

We Must Never Remain Silent In The Face Of Bigotry. We Must Condemn Those Who Seek To Divide Us. In All Quarters And At All Times, We Must Teach Tolerance And Denounce Racism, Anti-semitism And All Ethnic Or Religious Bigotry Wherever They Exist As Unacceptable Evils. We Have No Place For Haters In America -- None, Whatsoever.

. . . I Hope That When You're My Age, You'll Be Able To Say As I Have Been Able To Say: We Lived In Freedom, We Lived Lives That Were A Statement, Not An Apology.

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.

We Maintain The Peace Through Our Strength; Weakness Only Invites Aggression.

Peace Through Strength

Where There's Liberty, Art Succeeds.

A Strong American Economy Is Essential To The Well-being And Security Of Our Friends And Allies.

America Has Never Gotten In A War Because We Were Too Strong.

If The Family Goes, So Goes Our Civilization.

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.

I Never Drink Coffee At Lunch. I Find It Keeps Me Awake For The Afternoon.

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

To Do Whatever Needs To Be Done To Preserve This Last And Greatest Bastion Of Freedom.

Our Liberty Springs From And Depends Upon An Abiding Faith In God.

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 Are For Aiding Our Allies By Sharing Of Our Material Blessings With Those Nations Which Share In Our Fundamental Beliefs, But We're Against Doling Out Money Government To Government, Creating Bureaucracy, If Not Socialism, All Over The World. We Set Out To Help 19 Countries. We're Helping 107. We've Spent 146 Billion Dollars. With That Money, We Bought A 2 Million Dollar Yacht For Haile Selassie. We Bought Dress Suits For Greek Undertakers, Extra Wives For Kenya[n] Government Officials. We Bought A Thousand Tv Sets For A Place Where They Have No Electricity.

Information Is The Oxygen Of The Modern Age.

The Current Tax Code Is A Daily Mugging.

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

Our Forbearance Should Never Be Misunderstood. Our Reluctance For Conflict Should Not Be Misjudged As A Failure Of Will. When Action Is Required To Preserve Our National Security, We Will Act.

The Family Has Always Been The Cornerstone Of American Society. Our Families Nurture, Preserve, And Pass On To Each Succeeding Generation The Values We Share And Cherish, Values That Are The Foundation Of Our Freedoms.

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.

The Founding Fathers Believed That Faith In God Was The Key To Our Being A Good People And America's Becoming A Great Nation.

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Terrorism Is The Preferred Weapon Of Weak And Evil Men.

We Need More Democrats In The Senate -like Custer Needed More Arrows.

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.

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The Person Who Agrees With You 80 Percent Of The Time Is A Friend And An Ally - Not A 20 Percent Traitor.

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

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I Doubt Evolution Is Real.

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No Matter How Big And Powerful Government Gets, And The Many Services It Provides, It Can Never Take The Place Of Volunteers.

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

Baseball Is Our National Pastime, That Is If You Discount Political Campaigning.

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.

I Have Decided That Whatever Time I May Have Left Is Left For Him.

A Small Nation, Faced With The Denial Of Its Sovereignty — Indeed, Of Its Very Existence — Reminded Us That The Price Of Freedom Is High But Never So Costly As The Loss Of Freedom.

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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.

Freedom Is One Of The Deepest And Noblest Aspirations Of The Human Spirit.

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

A Stronger Defense Is An Investment In Peace.

I Don't Know Why Anyone Would Want To Study The Expansion Of The Universe.

No Mother Would Ever Willingly Sacrifice Her Sons For Territorial Gain, For Economic Advantage, For Ideology.

I've Always Believed That A Lot Of The Trouble In The World Would Disappear If We Were Talking To Each Other Instead Of About Each Other.

... A Faceless Mass, Waiting For Handouts.

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

There Are No Words To Express The Extraordinary Strength And Character Of This Breed Of People We Call American. They Are The Kind Of Men And Women Tom Paine Had In Mind When He Wrote, During The Darkest Days Of The American Revolution, We Have It In Our Power To Begin The World Over Again.

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.

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].

For The Eight Years I Was President I Never Let My Dream Of A Nuclear-free World Fade From My Mind.

To Those Who Cite The First Amendment As Reason For Excluding God From More And More Of Our Institutions And Everyday Life, May I Just Say: The First Amendment Of The Constitution Was Not Written To Protect The People Of This Country From Religious Values; It Was Written To Protect Religious Values From Government Tyranny.

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.

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

Some May Try To Tell Us That This Is The End Of An Era. But What They Overlook Is That In America, Every Day Is A New Beginning. For This Is The Land That Has Never Become, But Is Always In The Act Of Becoming.

Through You, We Feel As Giants, Once Again.

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

Our Tax Policy Is Engineered By People Who View Tax As A Means Of Achieving Changes In Our Social Structure.

America Is, And Always Will Be, A Shining City On A Hill.

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.

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.

Surround Yourself With The Best People You Can Find, Delegate Authority, And Don't Interfere As Long As The Policy You've Decided Upon Is Being Carried Out.

We Desire Peace. But Peace Is A Goal, Not A Policy. Lasting Peace Is What We Hope For At The End Of Our Journey. It Doesn't Describe The Steps We Must Take Nor The Paths We Should Follow To Reach That Goal.

The Most Confident Person In Any Transaction Always Introduces Themselves First.

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

There Are Some Who've Forgotten Why We Have A Military. It's Not To Promote War, It's To Be Prepared For Peace.

Let Us Be Sure That Those Who Come After Will Say Of Us In Our Time, That In Our Time We Did Everything That Could Be Done. We Finished The Race; We Kept Them Free; We Kept The Faith.

When People Tell Me That I Became President On January 20th, 1981, I Feel I Have To Correct Them. You Don't Become President Of The United States. You Are Given Temporary Custody Of An Institution Called The Presidency, Which Belongs To Our People.

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

Government Can And Must Provide Opportunity, Not Smother It; Foster Productivity; Not Stifle It.

God, The Source Of All Knowledge, Should Never Have Been Expelled From Our Children's Classrooms.

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.

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

I've Heard Drug Experts Say They Believe If Penicillin Were Discovered Today, The Fda Wouldn't License It.

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

May Every Day Be A New Beginning, And Every Dawn Bring Us Closer To That Shining City Upon A Hill.

I Don't Want To Do A Tv Series. It's No Fun Working From Dawn To Sunset Every Day. An Occasional Movie Would Be Fine, And Then I'll See What Might Develop On The Political Front.

Don't Let The Doom Criers And The Cynics Persuade You That The Best Is Past.

I Want To Talk About Political And Economic Fairy Tales.

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

Politics Is, For Me, Forgive And -as You May Have Heard- Sometimes Forget.

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.

The American Dream Is Not That Every Man Must Be Level With Every Other Man. The American Dream Is That Every Man Must Be Free To Become Whatever God Intends He Should Become.

Now Back In 1927 An American Socialist, Norman Thomas, Six Times Candidate For President On The Socialist Party Ticket, Said The American People Would Never Vote For Socialism. But He Said Under The Name Of Liberalism The American People Will Adopt Every Fragment Of The Socialist Program.

There Is A Mandate To Impose A Voluntary Return To Traditional Values.

We Should Never Fear To Negotiate, Nor Negotiate From Fear.

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?

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.

If We Get The Federal Government Out Of The Classroom, Maybe We'll Get God Back In.

It Is My Fervent Goal And Hope... That We Will Someday No Longer Have To Rely On Nuclear Weapons To Deter Aggression And Assure World Peace. To That End The United States Is Now Engaged In A Serious And Sustained Effort To Negotiate Major Reductions In Levels Of Offensive Nuclear Weapons With The Ultimate Goal Of Eliminating These Weapons From The Face Of The Earth.

What If Free People Could Live Secure In The Knowledge That Their Security Did Not Rest Upon The Threat Of Instant U.s. Retaliation To Deter A Soviet Attack, That We Could Intercept And Destroy Strategic Ballistic Missiles Before They Reached Our Own Soil Or That Of Our Allies?

The Pursuit Of Science, The Study Of The Great Works, The Value Of Free Inquiry, In Short, The Very Idea Of Living The Life Of The Mind - Yes, These Formative And Abiding Principles Of Higher Education In America Had Their First And Firmest Advocate, And Their Greatest Embodiment, In A Tall, Fair-headed, Friendly Man Who Watched This University Take Form From The Mountainside Where He Lived, The University Whose Founding He Called A Crowning Achievement To Along And Well-spent Life.

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

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

The Struggle Now Going On For The World Will Never Be Decided By Bombs Or Rockets, By Armies Or Military Might. The Real Crisis We Face Today Is A Spiritual One; At Root, It Is A Test Of Moral Will And Faith.

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.

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

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

. . . Government Should Do Only Those Things The People Cannot Do For Themselves.

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.'

America Has Always Been Greatest When We Dared To Be Great. We Can Reach For Greatness Again. We Can Follow Our Dreams To Distant Stars, Living And Working In Space For Peaceful, Economic, And Scientific Gain. Tonight, I Am Directing Nasa To Develop A Permanently Manned Space Station, And To Do It Within A Decade.

For Three Decades, We Have Sought To Solve The Problems Of Unemployment Through Government Planning, And The More The Plans Fail, The More The Planners Plan.

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)

In The 38th Chapter Of Ezekiel, It Says That The Land Of Israel Will Come Under Attack By The Armies Of The Ungodly Nations, And It Says That Libya Will Be Among Them. Do You Understand The Significance Of That? Libya Has Now Gone Communist, And That's A Sign That The Day Of Armageddon Isn't Far Off.

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

I Wasn't A Great Communicator, But I Communicated Great Things.

Together, Let Us Make This A New Beginning. Let Us Make A Commitment To Care For The Needy, To Teach Our Children The Values And The Virtues Handed Down To Us By Our Families, To Have The Courage To Defend Those Values And The Willingess To Sacrifice For Them. Let Us Pledge To Restore, In Our Time, The American Spirit Of Voluntary Service, Of Cooperation, Of Private And Community Initiative, A Spirit That Flows Like A Deep And Mighty River Through The History Of Our Nation.

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

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

In Some Dim Beginning, Man Created The Institution Of Government As A Convenience For Himself. And, Ever Since That Time, Government Has Been Doing Its Best To Become An Inconvenience.

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.

...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.

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.

It's Not That Liberals Aren't Smart, It's Just That So Much Of What They Know Isn't So

I'll Be Like Scarlett O'hara-i'll Think About It Tomorrow.

If You Owe The Bank $10,000 You Have A Problem. If You Owe The Bank $10,000,000 They Have A Problem. After All Is Said And Done, More Is Said Than Done. Government Does Not Solve Problems; It Subsidizes Them.

Well, My Head's Full Of Questions My Temp'rature's Risin' Fast Well, I'm Lookin' For Some Answers But I Don't Know Who To Ask

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

Directly Down The Lawn And Accross The Ellipse From The White House Are Those Ordered, Classic Lines Of The Jefferson Memorial And The Eyes Of The 19-foot Statue That Gaze Directly Into The White House, A Reminder To Any Of Us Who Might Occupy That Mansion Of The Quality Of Mind And Generosity Of Heart That Once Abided There And Has Been So Rarely Seen There Again.

Tyranny, Like Fog In The Well Known Poem, Often Creeps In Silently 'on Little Cat Feet.'

Well, The Task I've Set Forth Will Long Outlive Our Own Generation. But Together, We Too Have Come Through The Worst. Let Us Now Begin A Major Effort To Secure The Best- A Crusade For Freedom That Will Engage The Faith And Fortitude Of The Next Generation. For The Sake Of Peace And Justice, Let Us Move Toward A World In Which All People Are At Last Free To Determine Their Own Destiny.

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.

People Don't Start Wars, Governments Do.

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

I Believe Now, As I Alway Have, That America's Strength Is In 'we The People.'

We Have Not Inherited An Easy World. If Developments Like The Industrial Revolution, Which Began In England, And The Gifts Of Science And Technology Have Made Life Much Easier For Us, They Have Also Made It More Dangerous. There Are Threats Now To Our Freedom, Indeed To Our Very Existence, That Other Generations Could Never Even Have Imagined. There Is First The Threat Of Global War. No President, No Congress, No Prime Minister, No Parliament Can Spend A Day Entirely Free Of This Threat. If History Teaches Anything, It Teaches Self-delusion In The Face Of Unpleasant Facts Is Folly.

Blondes Have The Hottest Kisses. Red-heads Are Fair-to-middling Torrid, And Brunettes Are The Frigidest Of All. It's Something To Do With Hormones, No Doubt.

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

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.

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.

We Are Forever Indebted To Those Who Have Given Their Lives That We Might Be Free.

The Torch Of Liberty Is Hot; Warms Those Who Hold It High; Burns Those Who Try To Extinguish It.

Don't Be Afraid To See What You See.

Before I Refuse To Take Your Questions, I Have An Opening Statement.

Simple Fairness Dictates That Government Must Not Raise Taxes On Families Struggling To Pay Their Bills.

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.

We Didn't Discover Our Values In A Poll Taken A Week Before The Convention.

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

Evil Is Powerless If The Good Are Unafraid.

Government Steals From The Needy And Gives To The Greedy

The Federal Reserve Is Answerable To No One.

Federal Reserve

I Am Very Proud To Be Called A Pig. It Stands For Pride, Integrity And Guts.

Certain Forms Of Ammunition Have No Legitimate Sporting, Recreational, Or Self-defense Use And Thus Should Be Prohibited.

I'm Not Smart Enough To Lie

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

I Favor The Civil Rights Act Of 1964 And It Must Be Enforced At Gunpoint If Necessary.

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.

It Doesn't Do Any Good To Hold The Door Open For Someone If They Don't Have A Way To Walk Through It. And If They Do Have A Way To Pass Through It Then You Probably Don't Need To Hold It Open Because They Can Open It For Themselves.

We Seek The Elimination One Day Of Nuclear Weapons From The Face Of The Earth.

The Freedom Of Thought And Action We Americans Enjoy Today Seems As Natural As The Air We Breathe. But There Is A Danger We May Take This Freedom For Granted. We Must Never Forget It Was Bought For Us At A Great Price. The Brave And Resourceful Americans Whose Sacrifices Gained Our Independence And Preserved It For More Than 200 Years Against Formidable Foes Have Set An Example Of Unflinching Loyalty To The Ideal Of Liberty And Justice For All.

Justice For All

Well I've Said It Before And I'll Say It Again America's Best Days Are Yet To Come. Our Proudest Moments Are Yet To Be. Our Most Glorious Achievements Are Just Ahead.

Form And Substance Are Opposite Ends Of The Same Coin.

One Of The Traditional Methods Of Imposing Statism Or Socialism On A People Has Been By Way Of Medicine.

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

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