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I'm Convinced That Today The Majority Of Americans Want What Those First Americans Wanted: A Better Life For Themselves And Their Children; A Minimum Of Government Authority.

-Ronald Reagan

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Ronald Reagan

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I'm Convinced That Today The Majority Of Americans Want What Those First Americans Wanted: A Better Life For Themselves And Their Children; A Minimum Of Government Authority.

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My Fellow Americans, I Am Pleased To Tell You I Just Signed Legislation Which Outlaws Russia Forever. The Bombing Begins In Five Minutes.

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

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.

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.

I Know That It Is Often Difficult To Stand Up For One's Beliefs When They Are Being Harshly Challenged. But As One Who Has Seen Many Challenges Over A Long Lifetime, I Can Assure You That Personal Faith And Conviction Are Strengthened, Not Weakened, In Adversity.

The Victims Of Crime Have Been Transformed Into A Group Oppressively Burdened By A System Designed To Protect Them.

We're Not Just Discussing Limits On A Further Increase Of Nuclear Weapons; We Seek, Instead, To Reduce Their Number. We Seek The Total Elimination One Day Of Nuclear Weapons From The Face Of The Earth.

Democracy Is Not A Fragile Flower; Still It Needs Cultivating.

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.

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.

The Federal Government Did Not Create The States; The States Created The Federal Government.

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In America, Our Origins Matter Less Than Our Destination, And That Is What Democracy Is All About.

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

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.

From My Mother I Learned The Value Of Prayer, How To Have Dreams And Believe I Could Make Them Come True.

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.

We Have Not Inherited An Easy World. If Developments Like The Industrial Revolution, Which Began Here In England, And The Gifts Of Science And Technology Have Made Life Much Easier For Us, They Have Also Made It More Dangerous.

One Of The Worst Mistakes Anybody Can Make Is To Bet Against Americans.

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.

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

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The Greatest Security For Israel Is To Create New Egypts.

Marijuana Is Probably The Most Dangerous Drug In America Today.

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

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 Warned That There Should Be No Place On Earth Where Terrorists Can Rest And Train And Practice Their Deadly Skills. I Meant It. I Said That We Would Act With Others, If Possible, And Alone If Necessary To Ensure That Terrorists Have No Sanctuary Anywhere. Tonight, We Have.

We Don't Have A Trillion-dollar Debt Because We Haven't Taxed Enough; We Have A Trillion-dollar Debt Because We Spend Too Much.

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

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.

Freedom Is A Fragile Thing And Is Never More Than One Generation Away From Extinction. It Is Not Ours By Inheritance; It Must Be Fought For And Defended Constantly By Each Generation, For It Comes Only Once To A People. Those Who Have Known Freedom, And Then Lost It, Have Never Known It Again.

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.

I've Often Wondered About The Shyness Of Some Of Us In The West About Standing For These Ideals That Have Done So Much To Ease The Plight Of Man And The Hardships Of Our Imperfect World. Let Us Be Shy No Longer. Let Us Go To Our Strength. Let Us Offer Hope. Let Us Tell The World That A New Age Is Not Only Possible, But Probable.

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Life Is One Grand, Sweet Song, So Start The Music.

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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)

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When Those Who Are Governed Do Too Little, Those Who Govern Can - And Often Will - Do Too Much.

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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.

We In America Have Learned Bitter Lessons From Two World Wars: It Is Better To Be Here [in Europe] Ready To Protect The Peace, Than To Take Blind Shelter Across The Sea, Rushing To Respond Only After Freedom Is Lost. We've Learned That Isolationism Never Was And Never Will Be An Acceptable Response To Tyrannical Governments With An Expansionist Intent.

Freedom Is Indivisible - There Is No "s" On The End Of It. You Can Erode Freedom, Diminish It, But You Cannot Divide It And Choose To Keep "some Freedoms" While Giving Up Others.

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You And I Know And Do Not Believe That Life Is So Dear And Peace So Sweet As To Be Purchased At The Price Of Chains And Slavery. If Nothing In Life Is Worth Dying For, When Did This Begin-just In The Face Of This Enemy? Or Should Moses Have Told The Children Of Israel To Live In Slavery Under The Pharaohs? Should Christ Have Refused The Cross? Should The Patriots At Concord Bridge Have Thrown Down Their Guns And Refused To Fire The Shot Heard 'round The World? The Martyrs Of History Were Not Fools, And Our Honored Dead Who Gave Their Lives To Stop The Advance Of The Nazis Didn't Die In Vain.

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

Wearing Love Beads And Touting Our Sincerity Will Not Make This A Safer World.

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.

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He Struck A Mighty Blow For Equality, Freedom And The American Way Of Life. Jackie Robinson Was A Good Citizen, A Great Man, And A True American Champion.

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One Picture Is Worth 1,000 Denials.

Abraham Lincoln Freed The Black Man. In Many Ways, Dr. King Freed The White Man. How Did He Accomplish This Tremendous Feat? Where Others - White And Black - Preached Hatred, He Taught The Principles Of Love And Nonviolence.

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The Fourth Landing Of The Columbia Is The Historical Equivalent Of The Driving Of The Golden Spike Which Completed The First Transcontinental Railroad. It Marks Our Entrance Into A New Era.

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.

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

Let Me Make Our Goal In This Program Very Clear: Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, And More Jobs. Our Policy Has Been And Will Continue To Be: What Is Good For The American Worker Is Good For America.

I Do Not Want To Go Back To The Past; I Want To Go Back To The Past Way Of Facing The Future.

I Don't Have Too Much Time For Fiction.

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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.

No Nation In History Has Ever Survived A Tax Burden That Reached A Third Of Its National Income.

If We Don't Want To See The Map Of Central America Covered In A Sea Of Red, Eventually Lapping At Our Own Borders, We Must Act Now.

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

Government's First Duty Is To Protect The People, Not Run Their Lives.

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

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 Will Stand On, And Continue To Use, The Figures I Have Used, Because I Believe They Are Correct. Now, I'm Not Going To Deny That You Don't Now And Then Slip Up On Something; No One Bats A Thousand.

Fascism Was Really The Basis For The New Deal.

... The Moral Equal Of Our Founding Fathers.

Facts Are Stupid Things Stubborn Things, I Should Say.

Our Enemies May Be Irrational, Even Outright Insane, Driven By Nationalism, Religion, Ethnicity Or Ideology. They Do Not Fear The United States For Its Diplomatic Skills Or The Number Of Automobiles And Software Programs It Produces. They Respect Only The Firepower Of Our Tanks, Planes And Helicopter Gunships.

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.

Christmas Can Be Celebrated In The School Room With Pine Trees, Tinsel And Reindeers, But There Must Be No Mention Of The Man Whose Birthday Is Being Celebrated. One Wonders How A Teacher Would Answer If A Student Asked Why It Was Called Christmas.

Every Honor Is Appropriate For The Courageous Americans Who Made The Supreme Sacrifice For Our Nation At Pearl Harbor And In The Many Battles That Followed In World War Ii. Their Sacrifice Was For A Cause, Not For Conquest; For A World That Would Be Safe For Future Generations. Their Devotion Must Never Be Forgotten.

Environmental Extremists ... Wouldn't Let You Build A House Unless It Looked Like A Bird's Nest.

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Throughout Our History, We Americans Have Been Willing To Meet Great Challenges And Do What Is Right When Our Destiny Demanded It.

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... A Faceless Mass, Waiting For Handouts.

We Are A Nation That Has A Government-not The Other Way Around. And That Makes Us Special Among The Nations Of The Earth.

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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.

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.

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Revolution Means Democracy In Today's World, Not The Enslavement Of Peoples To The Corrupt And Degrading Horrors Of Totalitarianism

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The Government Is Currently Experiencing Withdrawal Symptoms, And We Musn't Feed The Habit By Injecting More Tax Dollars Into It.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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."

Anyone That's Ever Had Their Kitchen Done Over Knows That It Never Never Gets Done As Soon As You Wish It Would.

Yes, The Deficit Doctors Have Their Scalpels Out All Right, But They're Not Poised Over The Budget. That's As Fat As Ever And Getting Fatter. What They're Ready To Operate On Is Your Wallet.

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

I, For One, Resent It When A Representative Of The People Refers To You And Me, The Free Men And Women Of This Country, As 'the Masses.'

If You Put It On The Table As A Bargaining Chip, It Becomes A Bargaining Chip

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.

Regimes Planted By Bayonets Do Not Take Root.

Today, The United States Stands As A Beacon Of Liberty And Democratic Strength Before The Community Of Nations. We Are Resolved To Stand Firm Against Those Who Would Destroy The Freedoms We Cherish. We Are Determined To Achieve An Enduring Peace - A Peace With Liberty And With Honor. This Determination, This Resolve, Is The Highest Tribute We Can Pay To The Many Who Have Fallen In The Service Of Our Nation.

A Nation That Cannot Control Its Borders Is Not A Nation.

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

We Still Have Too Much Air And Water Pollution And We Still Need To Work To Reduce It. But We Also Need To Put The Problem Of Pollution Into A Historical As Well As Scientific Perspective.

The Founders Of The United Nations Expected That Member Nations Would Behave And Vote As Individuals After They Had Weighed The Merits Of An Issue - Rather Like A Great, Global Town Meeting. The Emergence Of Blocks And The Polarization Of The United Nations Undermine All That This Organization Initially Valued.

The Challenge Of Statesmanship Is To Have The Vision To Dream Of A Better, Safer World And The Courage, Persistence, And Patience To Turn That Dream Into Reality.

In This Present Crisis, Government Is Not The Solution To Our Problem; Government Is The Problem. From Time To Time We've Been Tempted To Believe That Society Has Become Too Complex To Be Managed By Self-rule, That Government By An Elite Group Is Superior To Government For, By, And Of The People. Well, If No One Among Us Is Capable Of Governing Himself, Then Who Among Us Has The Capacity To Govern Someone Else? All Of Us Together, In And Out Of Government, Must Bear The Burden.

The Family Has Always Been The Cornerstone Of American Society.

American Society

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

We Think There Is A Parallel Between Federal Involvement In Education And The Decline In Profit Over Recent Years.

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.

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We Believe Faith And Freedom Must Be Our Guiding Stars, For They Show Us Truth, They Make Us Brave, Give Us Hope, And Leave Us Wiser Than We Were.

When I've Heard All I Need To Make A Decision, I Don't Take A Vote. I Make A Decision.

The Wpa Was One Of The Most Productive Elements Of Fdr's Alphabet Soup Of Agencies Because It Put People To Work Building Roads, Bridges, And Other Projects... It Gave Men And Women A Chance To Make Some Money Along With The Satisfaction Of Knowing They Earned It.

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

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

What's Happening In Cuba Is Not A Failure Of The Cuban People. It's A Failure Of Fidel Castro And The Communists.

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

One Of The Traditional Methods Of Imposing Statism Or Socialism On A People Has Been By Way Of Medicine. It’s Very Easy To Disguise A Medical Program As A Humanitarian Project, Most People Are A Little Reluctant To Oppose Anything That Suggests Medical Care For People Who Possibly Can’t Afford It.

May All Of You As Americans Never Forget Your Heroic Origins, Never Fail To Seek Divine Guidance, And Never Lose Your Natural God-given Optimism.

Divine Guidance

Unemployment Insurance Is A Pre-paid Vacation For Freeloaders.

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

Once People Who Have Been Deprived Of Basic Freedom Taste A Little Of It, They Want All Of It.

If We Miss This Chance To Make A Fresh Start, We May Look Back On This Moment From Some Later Vantage Point And Realize How Much That Failure Cost Us All.

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

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.

We're Resolved Tonight That Young Americans Will Always See Those Potomac Lights, That They Will Always Find Here A City Of Hope In A Country That's Free So That When Other Generations Look Back At This Conservative Era In American Politics And Our Time In Power, They'll Say Of Us That We Did Hold True To That Dream Of Joseph Winthrop And Joseph Warren, That We Did Keep Faith With Our God, That We Did Act Worthy Of Ourselves, That We Did Protect And Pass On Lovingly That Shining City On A Hill.

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.

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

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

Our Founding Fathers Well Understood That Concentrated Power Is The Enemy Of Liberty And The Rights Of Man. They Knew That The American Experiment In Individual Liberty, Free Enterprise And Republican Self-government Could Succeed Only If Power Were Widely Distributed. And Since In Any Society Social And Political Power Flow From Economic Power, They Saw That Wealth And Property Would Have To Be Widely Distributed Among The People Of The Country. The Truth Of This Insight Is Immediately Apparent.

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.

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.

Human Beings Are Not Animals, And I Do Not Want To See Sex And Sexual Differences Treated As Casually And Amorally As Dogs And Other Beasts Treat Them. I Believe This Could Happen Under The Era.

Governments Don't Reduce Deficits By Raising Taxes On The People; Governments Reduce Deficits By Controlling Spending And Stimulating New Wealth.

Two Visions Of The World Remain Locked In Dispute. The First Believes All Men Are Created Equal By A Loving God Who Has Blessed Us With Freedom. The Second Vision Believes That Religion Is Opium For The Masses. It Believes That Eternal Principles Like Truth, Liberty, And Democracy Have No Meaning Beyond The Whim Of The State. And [vladimir] Lenin Spoke For Them.

The Task That Has Fallen To Us As Americans Is To Move The Conscience Of The World, To Keep Alive The Hope And Dream Of Freedom. For If We Fail Or Falter, There'll Be No Place For The World's Oppressed To Flee To. This Is Not A Role We Sought. We Preach No Manifest Destiny. But Like The Americans Who Brought A New Nation Into The World 200 Years Ago, History Has Asked Much Of Us In Our Time. Much We've Already Given; Much More We Must Be Prepared To Give.

How Does It Feel To Be The 's Third Choice? Humiliating? You Could Have Thrown A Dart. That's How Close They Were. We Had So Many Excellent Candidates.

Today, If You Invent A Better Mousetrap, The Government Comes Along With A Better Mouse.

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.

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

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