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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.

-Ronald Reagan

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I Received A Letter

Ronald Reagan

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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.

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

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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.

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.

Spending On The Military Doesn't Increase The Deficit.

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Perhaps There Is A Simple Answer -- Not An Easy Answer -- But Simple: If You And I Have The Courage To Tell Our Elected Officials That We Want Our National Policy Based On What We Know In Our Hearts Is Morally Right.

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.

I Would Have Voted Against The Civil Rights Act Of 1964.

Respect For Human Rights Is Not Social Work; It Is Not Merely An Act Of Compassion. It Is The First Obligation Of Government And The Source Of Its Legitimacy.

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

...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.

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.

Elvis Epitomised America, And For That We Shall Be Eternally Grateful. There Will Never Be Anyone Else Like Him. Let's All Rejoice In His Music.

A Nation Without Borders Is No Nation At All.

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

The Future Belongs To The Free.

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.

Because Vietnam Was Not A Declared War, The Veterans Are Not Even Eligible For The G. I. Bill Of Rights With Respect To Education Or Anything.

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.

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Freedom Is The Very Essence Of Our Nation. To Be Sure, Ours Is Not A Perfect Nation. But Even With Our Troubles, We Remain The Beacon Of Hope For Oppressed Peoples Everywhere. Never Give Up The Fight For Freedom - A Fight Which, Though It May Never End, Is The Most Ennobling Known To Man.

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

Since I Came To The White House, I Got Two Hearing Aids, A Colon Operation, Skin Cancer, A Prostate Operation, And I Was Shot. The Damn Thing Is, I've Never Felt Better In My Life.

Our Reluctance For Conflict Should Not Be Misjudged As A Failure Of Will.

There Is No Greater Happiness For A Man Than Approaching A Door At The End Of A Day Knowing Someone On The Other Side Of That Door Is Waiting For The Sound Of His Footsteps.

There Can Be No Security Anywhere In The Free World If There Is No Fiscal And Economic Stability Within The United States.

Jesse Helms Wants Me To Move To The Right, Lowell Weiker Wants Me To Move To The Left, And Teddy Kennedy Wants Me To Move Back To California.

We Have Every Right To Dream Heroic Dreams.

Since When Do We In America Believe That Our Society Is Made Up Of Two Diametrically Opposed Classes - One Rich, One Poor - Both In A Permanent State Of Conflict And Neither Able To Get Ahead Except At The Expense Of The Other? Since When Do We In America Accept This Alien And Discredited Theory Of Social And Class Warfare? Since When Do We In America Endorse The Politics Of Envy And Division?

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

This Administration Is Totally Colorblind.

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?

We Have Found, In Our Country, That When People Have The Right To Make Decisions As Close To Home As Possible, They Usually Make The Right Decisions.

For An America Of Wisdom That Honors The Family, Knowing That If The Family Goes, So Goes Our Civilization.

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

The Bible Tells Us There Will Be A Time For Peace. But, So Far In This Century, Mankind Has Failed To Find It.

Are You Willing To Spend Time Studying The Issues, Making Yourself Aware, And Then Conveying That Information To Family And Friends? Will You Resist The Temptation To Get A Government Handout For Your Community?

Diplomacy, Of Course, Is A Subtle And Nuanced Craft, So Much So That It's Said That When The Most Wily Diplomat Of The Nineteenth-century Passed Away, Other Diplomats Asked, On Reports Of His Death, "what Do You Suppose The Old Fox Meant By That?

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I Notice That All Of The People Who Support Abortion Are Already Born.

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How Do You Tell A Communist? Well, It's Someone Who Reads Marx And Lenin. And How Do You Tell An Anti-communist? It's Someone Who Understands Marx And Lenin.

The Best View Of Big Government Is In The Rearview Mirror As We Leave It Behind.

My Doctors Told Me This Morning My Blood Pressure Is Down So Low That I Can Start Reading The Newspapers.

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

Accepting A Government Grant With Its Accompanying Rules Is Like Marrying A Girl And Finding Out Her Entire Family Is Moving In With You Before The Honeymoon.

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Don't Be Afraid To See What You See.

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Information Is The Oxygen Of The Modern Age. It Seeps Through The Walls Topped By Barbed Wire, It Wafts Across The Electrified Borders.

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

I, In My Own Mind, Have Always Thought Of America As A Place In The Divine Scheme Of Things That Was Set Aside As A Promised Land...any Person With The Courage, With The Desire To Tear Up Their Roots, To Strive For Freedom, To Attempt And Dare To Live In A Strange And Foreign Place, To Travel Halfway Across The World Was Welcome Here.

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

Government Is Not The Solution, But Rather The Cause Of Our Problems.

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I'm Proud Of Having Been One Of The First To Recognize That States And The Federal Government Have A Duty To Protect Our Natural Resources From The Damaging Effects Of Pollution That Can Accompany Industrial Development.

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.

Yes, Deficits Are A Problem. I've Been Saying So For More Than A Quarter Of A Century Now. But The Problem Is Not The Size Of The Deficit, It's The Size Of Government's Claim On Our Economy.

Mr. Gorbachev, Tear Down This Wall. And Get A Massage - You Look Really Stressed

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

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.

I Doubt Evolution Is Real.

We Cannot Escape Our Destiny, Nor Should We Try To Do So. The Leadership Of The Free World Was Thrust Upon Us Two Centuries Ago In That Little Hall Of Philadelphia. In The Days Following World War Ii, When The Economic Strength And Power Of America Was All That Stood Between The World And The Return To The Dark Ages, Pope Pius Xii Said, 'the American People Have A Great Genius For Splendid And Unselfish Actions. Into The Hands Of America God Has Placed The Destinies Of An Afflicted Mankind.' We Are Indeed, And We Are Today, The Last Best Hope Of Man On Earth.

Admittedly, There Is A Risk In Any Course We Follow Other Than This, But Every Lesson In History Tells Us That The Greater Risk Lies In Appeasement, And This Is The Specter Our Well-meaning Liberal Friends Refuse To Face.

Because You Won't Get Gun Control By Disarming Law Abiding Citizens. There's Only One Way To Get Real Gun Control: Disarm The Thugs And The Criminals, Lock Them Up, And If You Don't Actually Throw Away The Key, At Least Lose It For A Long Time.

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.

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.

Work And Family Are At The Center Of Our Lives, The Foundation Of Our Dignity As A Free People.

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

'trust-me' Government Asks That We Concentrate Our Hopes And Dreams On One Man, That We Trust Him To Do What's Best For Us. My View Of Government Places Trust Not In One Person Or One Party, But In Those Values That Transcend Persons And Parties.

Today, We're Taking A Break From The Concerns And The Bustle Of The Work-a-day World. But We're Also Making A New Beginning. As We Gather Around Our Dining Room Tables For The Midday Meal, Let Us Thank God For Life And The Blessings He's Put Before Us. High Among Them Are Our Families, Our Freedom, And The Opportunities Of A New Year.

I Think, Too, That We've Got To Recognize That Where The Preservation Of A Natural Resource Like The Redwoods Is Concerned, That There Is A Common Sense Limit. I Mean, If You've Looked At A Hundred Thousand Acres Or So Of Trees-you Know, A Tree Is A Tree, How Many More Do You Need To Look At? Opposing Expansion Of Redwood National Park.

Good Citizenship And Defending Democracy Means Living Up To The Ideals And Values That Make This Country Great.

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

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.

We've Been Blessed With The Opportunity To Stand For Something - For Liberty And Freedom And Fairness. And These Are Things Worth Fighting For, Worth Devoting Our Lives To.

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.

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

I'm Not A Politician By Profession. I Am A Citizen Who Decided I Had To Be Personally Involved In Order To Stand Up For My Own Values And Beliefs. My Candidacy Is Based On My Record, And For That Matter, My Entire Life.

We Need True Tax Reform That Will At Least Make A Start Toward Restoring For Our Children The American Dream That Wealth Is Denied To No One, That Each Individual Has The Right To Fly As High As His Strength And Ability Will Take Him.

I'm Not Smart Enough To Lie

I Don't Have To Tell You How Fragile This Precious Gift Of Freedom Is. Every Time We Hear, Watch, Or Read The News, We Are Reminded That Liberty Is A Rare Commodity In This World.

Veterans And Freedom

Through You, We Feel As Giants, Once Again.

I Don't Know What I Expected, But My First Morning In The Oval Office Had A Surprising Ring Of Familiarity To It. It Reminded Me A Lot Of My Job As Governor.

I Like Photographers - You Don't Ask Questions. (to A Gathering Of The White House News Photographers Association)

The Congress Of The United States, In Recognition Of The Unique Contribution Of The Bible In Shaping The History And Character Of This Nation, And So Many Of Its Citizens, Has By Senate Joint Resolution 165 Authorized And Requested The President To Designate The Year 1983 As The 'year Of The Bible.'

Anytime You And I Question The Schemes Of The Do-gooders, We're Denounced As Being Against Their Humanitarian Goals. They Say We're Always "against" Things-we're Never "for" Anything. Well, The Trouble With Our Liberal Friends Is Not That They're Ignorant; It's Just That They Know So Much That Isn't So.

The Great Dynamic Success Of Capitalism Had Given Us A Powerful Weapon In Our Battle Against Communism-money.

One Way To Make Sure Crime Doesn't Pay Would Be To Let The Government Run It.

I Want To Talk About Political And Economic Fairy Tales.

If No One Among Us Is Capable Of Governing Himself, Then Who Among Us Has The Capcity To Govern Someone Else.

I'm A Sucker For Hero Worship.

We In The United States, Above All, Must Remember That Lesson, For We Were Founded As A Nation Of Openness To People Of All Beliefs. And So We Must Remain. Our Very Unity Has Been Strengthened By Our Pluralism. 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. All Are Free To Believe Or Not Believe, All Are Free To Practice A Faith Or Not, And Those Who Believe Are Free, And Should Be Free, To Speak Of And Act On Their Belief.

If It's To Be A Bloodbath, Let It Be Now. Appeasement Is Not The Answer.

The . . . Inescapable Truth Is: Government Does Not Have All The Answers. In Too Many Instances, Government Does Not Solve Problems; It Subsidizes Them.

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

Those Who Have Known Freedom And Then Lost It, Have Never Known It Again

I'm Sure Everyone Feels Sorry For The Individual Who Has Fallen By The Wayside Or Who Can't Keep Up In Our Competitive Society, But My Own Compassion Goes Beyond That To Those Millions Of Unsung Men And Women, Who Get Up Every Morning, Send The Kids To School, Go To Work, Try To Keep Up The Payments On Their House, Pay Exorbitant Taxes To Make Possible Compassion For The Less Fortunate, And As A Result Have To Sacrifice Many Of Their Own Desires And Dreams And Hopes. Government Owes Them Something Better Than Always Finding A New Way To Make Them Share The Fruit Of Their Toils With Others.

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.

When You See All That Rhetorical Smoke Billowing Up From The Democrats, Well Ladies And Gentleman, I'd Follow The Example Of Their Nominee; Don't Inhale.

If The Family Goes, So Goes Our Civilization.

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

There Is No Foundation Like The Rock Of Honesty And Fairness, And When You Begin To Build Your Life On That Rock, With The Cement Of The Faith In God That You Have, Then You Have A Real Start.

By Emphasizing The Importance Of A Common Language, We Safeguard A Proud Legacy And Help To Ensure That America's Future Will Be As Great As Her Past.

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

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.

A Recession Is When Your Neighbor Loses His Job. A Depression Is When You Lose Yours.

There Is No Institution More Vital To Our Nation's Survival Than The American Family. Here The Seeds Of Personal Character Are Planted, The Roots Of Public Virtue First Nourished. Through Love And Instruction, Discipline, Guidance And Example, We Learn From Our Mothers And Fathers The Values That Will Shape Our Private Lives And Our Public Citizenship.

America Stands Unique In The World: The Only Country Not Founded On Race But On A Way, An Ideal. Not In Spite Of But Because Of Our Polyglot Background, We Have Had All The Strength In The World. That Is The American Way.

Politics Is Not A Bad Profession. If You Succeed There Are Many Rewards, If You Disgrace Yourself You Can Always Write A Book.

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.

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

Mr. Gorbachev, Tear Down This Wall!

The Doctor Begins To Lose Freedoms; It's Like Telling A Lie, And One Leads To Another. First You Decide That The Doctor Can Have So Many Patients. They Are Equally Divided Among The Various Doctors By The Government. But Then The Doctors Aren't Equally Divided Geographically, So A Doctor Decides He Wants To Practice In One Town And The Government Has To Say To Him You Can't Live In That Town, They Already Have Enough Doctors. You Have To Go Someplace Else. And From Here It Is Only A Short Step To Dictating Where He Will Go.

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

Every New Day Begins With Possibilities.

New Possibilities

Unless And Until It Can Be Proven That An Unborn Child Is Not A Living Human Being, Can We Justify Assuming Without Proof That It Isn't? No One Has Yet Offered Such Proof; Indeed, All The Evidence Is To The Contrary.

I Want You To Know That This Administration Is Motivated By A Political Philosophy That Sees The Greatness Of America In You, Her People, And In Your Families, Churches, Neighborhoods, Communities - The Institutions That Foster And Nourish Values Like Concern For Others And Respect For The Rule Of Law Under God.

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.

[write To Your Congressional Representative Against The Health Care Reform Proposal Or] We Will Awake To Find That We Have Socialism.

This Crime Against Humanity Must Never Be Forgotten.

Inside The Bible's Pages Lie The Answers To All The Problems That Mankind Has Ever Known. I Hope Americans Will Read And Study The Bible.

Since The Foundation Of The State Of Israel, The United States Has Stood By Her And Helped Her To Pursue Security, Peace, And Economic Growth. Our Friendship Is Based On Historic Moral And Strategic Ties, As Well As Our Shared Dedication To Democracy.

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

When Our Founding Fathers Passed The First Amendment, They Sought To Protect Churches From Government Interference. They Never Intended To Construct A Wall Of Hostility Between Government And The Concept Of Religious Belief Itself.

There Is A Fundamental Difference Between Separation Of Church And State And Denying The Spiritual Heritage Of This Country. Inscribed On The Jefferson Memorial In Washington, D.c. Are Jefferson's Words, 'the God Who Gave Us Life Gave Us Liberty -- Can The Liberties Of A Nation Be Secure When We Have Removed A Conviction That These Liberties Are The Gift Of God?'

The People's Instincts Are Still Right. You See Them Come To The Rescue Of Someone-a Child Who Falls Down A Well-hundreds Of People Rush To Help, And Labor And Equipment Are Volunteered Without Any Thought Of Who's Going To Pay For It. This Is A Basic Feeling In Americans. They Don't Stand Back In Such A Circumstance And Ask What The Government's Going To Do About It.

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.

God's Miracles Are To Be Found In Nature Itself; The Wind And Waves, The Wood That Becomes A Tree - All Of These Are Explained Biologically, But Behind Them Is The Hand Of God.

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

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

Live Simply, Love Generously, Care Deeply, Speak Kindly, Leave The Rest To God.

These Gentlemen Are The Moral Equivalents Of America's Founding Fathers.

The Taxpayer - That's Someone Who Works For The Federal Government But Doesn't Have To Take The Civil Service Examination.

I Think We Should Keep The Grain And Export The Farmers.

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

You Can Tell Alot About A Fellow's Character By His Way Of Eating Jellybeans.

The Economic Welfare Of All Our People Must Ultimately Stem Not From Government Programs, But From The Wealth Created By A Vigorous Private Sector.

Many A Man Has Failed Because He Had His Wishbone Where His Backbone Should Have Been.

We Don't Need More Politicians Insisting We Have Deficits Because You're Not Taxed Enough. Those Deficits Ballooned From An Economy That Didn't Grow Enough And From 50 Years Of Government Spending Too Much.

Double - No, Triple - Our Troubles And We'd Still Be Better Off Than Any Other People On Earth.

Everyone Is A Liberal Until They Have Something To Conserve. Then They Become A Conservative.

We're Americans, And We Have A Rendezvous With Destiny . . . No People Who Have Ever Lived On This Earth Have Fought Harder, Paid A Higher Price For Freedom, Or Done More To Advance The Dignity Of Man Than Americans.

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.

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.

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.

Our Liberties, Our Values, All For Which America Stands Is Safe Today Because Brave Men And Women Have Been Ready To Face The Fire At Freedom's Front. And We Thank God For Them.

Entrepreneurs Are The Forgotten Heroes Of America.

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

Where There's Liberty, Art Succeeds.

For Decades, We Have Piled Deficit Upon Deficit, Mortgaging Our Future And Our Children's Future For The Temporary Convenience Of The Present. To Continue This Long Trend Is To Guarantee Tremendous Social, Cultural, Political, And Economic Upheavals. You And I, As Individuals, Can, By Borrowing, Live Beyond Our Means, But For Only A Limited Period Of Time. Why, Then, Should We Think That Collectively, As A Nation, We Are Not Bound By That Same Limitation?

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

All The Waste In A Year From A Nuclear Power Plant Can Be Stored Under A Desk.

In Hollywood, As I've Often Said, If You Don't Sing Or Dance, You End Up As An After-dinner Speaker.

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."

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.

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.

You Know, If I Listened To Michael Dukakis Long Enough, I Would Be Convinced We're In An Economic Downturn And People Are Homeless And Going Without Food And Medical Attention And That We've Got To Do Something About The Unemployed.

The District Of Columbia Is One Gigantic Ear.

Republicans Believe The Best Way To Assure Prosperity Is To Generate More Jobs. The Democrats Believe In More Welfare.

The [carter] Administration Doesn't Know The Difference Between A Diplomat And A Doormat.

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

Government Is Not A Solution To Our Problem Government Is The Problem.

I Believe We Must Resolve The Problem At Our Southern Border With Full Regard To The Problems And Needs Of Mexico. I Have Suggested Legalizing The Entry Of Mexican Labor Into This Country On Much The Same Basis You Proposed, Although I Have Not Put It Into The Sense Of Restoring The Bracero Program.

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

The American People Cannot Close Their Eyes To Abuses Of Human Rights And Injustice, Whether They Occur Among Friend Or Adversary Or Even On Our Own Shores.

The Family Has Always Been The Cornerstone Of American Society.

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It's Hard, When You're Up To Your Armpits In Alligators, To Remember You Came Here To Drain The Swamp.

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