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I Was 21 And Looking For Work In 1932, One Of The Worst Years Of The Great Depression. And I Can Remember One Bleak Night In The Thirties When My Father Learned On Christmas Eve That He'd Lost His Job. To Be Young In My Generation Was To Feel That Your Future Had Been Mortgaged Out From Under You, And That's A Tragic Mistake We Must Never Allow Our Leaders To Make Again.

-Ronald Reagan

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I Was 21 And

Ronald Reagan

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I Was 21 And Looking For Work In 1932, One Of The Worst Years Of The Great Depression. And I Can Remember One Bleak Night In The Thirties When My Father Learned On Christmas Eve That He'd Lost His Job. To Be Young In My Generation Was To Feel That Your Future Had Been Mortgaged Out From Under You, And That's A Tragic Mistake We Must Never Allow Our Leaders To Make Again.

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We Welcome Change And Openness; For We Believe That Freedom And Security Go Together, That The Advance Of Human Liberty Can Only Strengthen The Cause Of World Peace.

Americans Are Hungering To Feel Proud And Patriotic Again.

Could There Be A Better Answer To The Stupidity Of Karl Marx Than Millions Of Workers Individually Sharing In The Ownership Of The Means Of Production.

Millions Of Individuals Making Their Own Decisions In The Marketplace Will Always Allocate Resources Better Than Any Centralized Government Planning Process.

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.

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We've Been A Free People Living Under The Law, With Faith In Our Maker And In Our Future. I've Said Before That The Most Sublime Picture In American History Is Of George Washington On His Knees In The Snow At Valley Forge. That Image Personifies A People Who Know That It's Not Enough To Depend On Our Own Courage And Goodness; We Must Also Seek Help From God, Our Father And Preserver.

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

Church And State Are, And Must Remain, Separate.

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.

Our Policy Is Simple: We Are Not Going To Betray Our Friends, Reward The Enemies Of Freedom, Or Permit Fear And Retreat To Become American Policies — Especially In This Hemisphere. None Of The Four Wars In My Lifetime Came About Because We Were Too Strong.

Most Of My Dreams Came True.

Dreams Came True

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And One More Idea Which May Be Laughed And Sneered At In Some Supposedly Sophisticated Circles, But I Just Have To Believe That The Loving God Who Has Blessed This Land And Thus Made Us A Good And Caring People Should Never Have Been Expelled From America's Classrooms. It's Time To Welcome Him Back, Because Whenever We've Opened Ourselves And Trusted In Him, We've Gained Not Only Moral Courage But Intellectual Strength.

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.

We're Looking Forward To A Great Season At The University Of California - If We Find A Way To Put Cleats On Their Sandals.

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Approximately 80% Of Our Air Pollution Stems From Hydrocarbons Released By Vegetation, So Let's Not Go Overboard In Setting And Enforcing Tough Emission Standards From Man-made Sources.

America's View Of Apartheid Is Simple And Straightforward: We Believe It Is Wrong. We Condemn It. And We Are United In Hoping For The Day When Apartheid Will Be No More.

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

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Don't Be Afraid To See What You See.

Middle Age Is When You're Faced With Two Temptations And You Choose The One That Will Get You Home By Nine O'clock.

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.

Terrorism Is The Preferred Weapon Of Weak And Evil Men.

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... A Faceless Mass, Waiting For Handouts.

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Pursuit Of Happiness

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Today We Did What We Had To Do. They Counted On America To Be Passive. They Counted Wrong.

A Nation's Greatness Is Measured Not Just By Its Gross National Product Or Military Power, But By The Strength Of Its Devotion To The Principles And Values That Bind Its People And Define Their Character.

As We Celebrate Thanksgiving, We Should Reflect On The Full Meaning Of This Day As We Enjoy The Fellowship That Is So Much A Part Of The Holiday Festivities. Searching Our Hearts, We Should Ask What We Can Do As Individuals To Demonstrate Our Gratitude To God For All He Has Done. Such Reflection Can Only Add To The Significance Of This Precious Day Of Remembrance.

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

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.

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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.

Unless Bureaucracy Is Constantly Resisted, It Breaks Down Representative Government And Overwhelms Democracy.

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

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

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

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All Great Change In America Begins At The Dinner Table.

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.

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

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!

Politics Is Supposed To Be The Second-oldest Profession... And I Have Come To Realize That It Bears A Very Close Resemblance To The First.

California Produces 40% Of America's Fresh Fruits, Vegetables And Nuts - The Kind You Eat. We Have Had A Bumper Crop Of The Other Variety, Too.

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

It Has Been Said That Politics Is The Second Oldest Profession. I Have Learned That It Bears A Striking Resemblance To The First.

The Founders Of The United Nations Sought To Replace A World At War With A World Of Civilized Order. They Hoped That A World Of Relentless Conflict Would Give Way To A New Era, One Where Freedom From Violence Prevailed.... But The Awful Truth Is That The Use Of Violence For Political Gain Has Become More, Not Less, Widespread In The Last Decade.

The Same Government That Requires A Taxpaying Citizen To Document Every Statement On His Tax Return Decrees That Questioning A Welfare Applicant Demeans And Humiliates Him.

If A Tax Hike Makes It To My Desk, I'll Veto It In Less Time Than It Takes Vanna White To Turn The Letters V-e-t-o!

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."

God...should Never Have Been Expelled From America's Schools. As We Struggle To Teach Our Children...we Dare Not Forget That Our Civilization Was Built By Men And Women Who Placed Their Faith In A Loving God. If Congress Can Begin Each Day With A Moment Of Prayer...so Then Can Our Sons And Daughters.

People Do Not Make Wars; Governments Do.

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.

All Of Us Should Remember That The Federal Government Is Not Some Mysterious Institution Comprised Of Buildings, Files And Paper. The People Are The Government. What We Create We Ought To Be Able To Control.

We In Government Should Learn To Look At Our Country With The Eyes Of The Entrepreneur, Seeing Possibilities Where Others See Only Problems

Every New Day Begins With Possibilities.

New Possibilities

We're The Party That Wants To See An America In Which People Can Still Get Rich.

Poland Is At The Center Of European Civilization. It Has Contributed Mightily To That Civilization. It Is Doing So Today By Being Magnificently Unreconciled To Oppression. Poland's Struggle To Be Poland And To Secure The Basic Rights We Often Take For Granted, Demonstrates Why We Dare Not Take Those Rights For Granted.

Could There Be Anything But Widespread Misery, Where A Privileged Few Controlled A Nation's Wealth, While Millions Labored For A Pittance, And Millions More Were Desperate For Want Of Employment?

When The Lives Of The Unborn Are Snuffed Out, They Often Feel Pain, Pain That Is Long And Agonizing.

Going Around This Country, I Have Found A Great Hunger In America For Spiritual Revival; For A Belief That Law Must Be Based On A Higher Law; For A Return To Traditions And Values That We Once Had. Our Government, In Its Most Sacred Documents - The Constitution And The Declaration Of Independence And All - Speak Of Man Being Created, Of A Creator; That We're A Nation Under God.

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

The United States Remains The Last Best Hope For A Mankind Plagued By Tyranny And Deprivation. America Is No Stronger Than Its People -- And That Means You And Me. Well, I Believe In You, And I Believe That If We Work Together, Then One Day We Will Say, "we Fought The Good Fight. We Finished The Race. We Kept The Faith." And To Our Children And Our Children's Children, We Can Say, "we Did All What Could Be Done In The Brief Time That Was Given Us Here On Earth.".

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

You And I Have A Rendezvous With Destiny. We Will Preserve For Our Children This, The Last Best Hope Of Man On Earth.

Protecting The Rights Of Even The Least Individual Among Us Is Basically The Only Excuse The Government Has For Even Existing.

We Intend To Keep The Peace - We Will Also Keep Our Freedom.

God, The Source Of Our Knowledge, Has Been Expelled From The Classroom. He Gives Us His Greatest Blessing, Life, And Yet Many Would Condone The Taking Of Innocent Life. We Expect Him To Protect Us In A Crisis, But Turn Away From Him Too Often In Our Day-to-day Living. I Wonder If He Isn't Waiting For Us To Wake Up.

We Know That This Mad Dog Of The Middle East Has A Goal Of A World Revolution. (on Muammar Qaddafi Of Libya)

An Informed Patriotism Is What We Want.

Our Nation Was Built And Civilized By Men And Women Who Used Guns In Self-defense And In Pursuit Of Peace. One Wonders Indeed, If The Rising Crime Rate, Isn't Due As Much As Anything To The Criminal's Instinctive Knowledge That The Average Victim No Longer Has Means Of Self-protection.

As For The Enemies Of Freedom, Those Who Are Potential Adversaries, They Will Be Reminded That Peace Is The Highest Aspiration Of The American People. We Will Negotiate For It, Sacrifice For It, We Will Not Surrender For It - Now Or Ever.

I Know In My Heart That Man Is Good. That What Is Right Will Always Eventually Triumph. And There's Purpose And Worth To Each And Every Life.

The Time Has Come To Match Outgo To Income, Instead Of Always Doing It The Other Way Around.

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

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

To Grasp And Hold A Vision, That Is The Very Essence Of Successful Leadership-not Only On The Movie Set Where I Learned It, But Everywhere.

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.

If We've Learned Any Lessons During The Past Few Decades, Perhaps The Most Important Is That Preservation Of Our Environment Is Not A Partisan Challenge; It's Common Sense. Our Physical Health, Our Social Happiness, And Our Economic Well-being Will Be Sustained Only By All Of Us Working In Partnership As Thoughtful, Effective Stewards Of Our Natural Resources.

If We Ever Forget That We Are One Nation Under God, Then We Will Be A Nation Gone Under.

We're In Greater Danger Today Than We Were The Day After Pearl Harbor. Our Military Is Absolutely Incapable Of Defending This Country.

The Vote On The Peacekeeper Is Also A Vote On Geneva. Rejecting The Peacekeeper Will Knock The Legs Out From Under The Negotiating Table. (on Importance Of The Mx Missile)

For The Average American, The Message Is Clear. Liberalism Is No Longer The Answer. It Is The Problem.

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

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.

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

The More The Plans Fail, The More The Planners Plan.

People Don't Start Wars, Governments Do.

While Other [military] Alliances Have Been Formed To Win Wars, Our Fundamental Purpose Is To Prevent War While Preserving And Extending The Frontiers Of Freedom.

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.

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.

How Can We Not Believe In The Greatness Of America? How Can We Not Do What Is Right And Needed To Preserve This Last Best Hope Of Man On Earth? After All Our Struggles To Restore America, To Revive Confidence In Our Country, Hope For Our Future - After All Our Hard-won Victories Earned Through The Patience And Courage Of Every Citizen - We Cannot, Must Not, And Will Not Turn. We Will Finish Our Job. How Could We Do Less? We're Americans.

I Believe The Best Social Program Is A Job.

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

We Don't Lump People By Groups Or Special Interests. And Let Me Add, In The Party Of Lincoln There Is No Room For Intolerance And Not Even A Small Corner For Anti-semitism Or Bigotry Of Any Kind. Many People Are Welcome In Our House, But Not The Bigots.

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

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

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

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.

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.'

Even Now I Wonder What I Might Have Accomplished If I'd Studied Harder

Let The Fourth Of July Always Be A Reminder That Here In This Land, For The First Time, It Was Decided That Man Is Born With Certain God-given Rights; That Government Is Only A Convenience Created And Managed By The People, With No Powers Of Its Own Except Those Voluntarily Granted To It By The People. We Sometimes Forget That Great Truth, And We Never Should. Happy Fourth Of July.

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.

Our National Motto - 'in God We Trust' - Was Not Chosen Lightly. It Reflects A Basic Recognition That There Is A Divine Authority In The Universe To Which This Nation Owes Homage.

Nations Do Not Distrust Each Other Because They Are Armed. They Are Armed Because They Distrust Each Other.

Free Enterprise Is A Rough And Competitive Game. It Is A Hell Of A Lot Better Than A Government Monopoly.

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

The Current Tax Code Is A Daily Mugging.

The War In Vietnam Threatened To Tear Our Society Apart, And The Political And Philosophical Disagreements That Separated Each Side Continue, To Some Extent. It's Been Said That These Memorials Reflect A Hunger For Healing.

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

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

Federal Government

Facts Are Stupid Things Stubborn Things, I Should Say.

Let Us Remember With Devotion That The Flag We Love And Honor Is The Flag Of Freedom That Flew In Victory At Yorktown, The Flag The United States Marines Raised On Mount Suribachi, The Flag Francis Scott Key Saw By The Dawn's Early Light. Long May It Wave.

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

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.

Price Of Freedom

When A Child Loses His Parent, They Are Called An Orphan. When A Spouse Loses Her Or His Partner, They Are Called A Widow Or Widower. When Parents Lose Their Child, Their Isn't A Word To Describe Them. This Month Recognizes The Loss So Many Parents Experience Across The United States And Around The World. It Is Also Meant To Inform And Provide Resources For Parents Who Have Lost Children Due To Miscarriage, Ectopic Pregnancy, Molar Pregnancy, Stillbirths, Birth Defects, Sids, And Other Causes.

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.

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

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.

Our Principles Were Revolutionary. We Began As A Small, Weak Republic. But We Survived. Our Example Inspired Others, Imperfectly At Times, But It Inspired Them Nevertheless. This Constitutional Republic, Conceived In Liberty And Dedicated To The Proposition That All Men Are Created Equal, Prospered And Grew Strong. To This Day, America Is Still The Abiding Alternative To Tyranny. That Is Our Purpose In The World - Nothing More And Nothing Less.

Simple Morality Dictates That Unless And Until Someone Can Prove The Unborn Human Is Not Alive, We Must Give It The Benefit Of The Doubt And Assume It Is (alive). And, Thus, It Should Be Entitled To Life, Liberty And The Pursuit Of Happiness.

Pursuit Of Happiness

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

Government Steals From The Needy And Gives To The Greedy

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

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

You And I Have A Rendezvous With Destiny. We Will Preserve For Our Children This, The Last Best Hope Of Man On Earth, Or We Will Sentence Them To Take The First Step Into A Thousand Years Of Darkness. If We Fail, At Least Let Our Children And Our Children’s Children Say Of Us We Justified Our Brief Moment Here. We Did All That Could Be Done.

America Was Founded By People Who Believe That God Was Their Rock Of Safety. I Recognize We Must Be Cautious In Claiming That God Is On Our Side, But I Think It's All Right To Keep Asking If We're On His Side.

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

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.

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.

Regimes Planted By Bayonets Do Not Take Root.

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

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

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.

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.

History Shows That When The Taxes Of A Nation Approach About 20 Percent Of The People's Income, There Begins To Be A Lack Of Respect For Government.... When It Reaches 25 Percent, There Comes An Increase In Lawlessness.

Our American Tradition Of Neighbor Helping Neighbor Has Always Been One Of Our Greatest Strengths And Most Noble Traditions.

Elena, My Four Year Old, Says To Me In All Seriousness; "mommy, You Need To Buy Another Baby".

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.'

Regimes Planted By Bayonets Do Not Take Root... Our Military Strength Is A Prerequisite To Peace, But Let It Be Clear We Maintain This Strength In The Hope It Will Never Be Used, For The Ultimate Determinant In The Struggle That's Now Going On In The World Will Not Be Bombs And Rockets But A Test Of Wills And Ideas, A Trial Of Spiritual Resolve, The Values We Hold, The Beliefs We Cherish, The Ideals To Which We Are Dedicated.

There Is Nothing Wrong With America That Americans Can't Fix.

There Are No Degrees Of Honesty.

Let's Face It.., Our Current [immigration Control] System Is Like A Busy Intersection Without A Traffic Cop: Sure There Are Laws On The Books, But Absent Enforcement, There Are Too Many Accidents.

State Problems Should Involve State Solutions.

Trees Cause Pollution.

My Dream Is To See The Day When Nuclear Weapons Will Be Banished From The Face Of The Earth.

People Who Think A Tax Boost Will Cure Inflation Are The Same Ones Who Believe Another Drink Will Cure A Hangover.

How Could An Actor Become President?

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

Peace Is More Than Just An Absence Of War. True Peace Is Justice, True Peace Is Freedom, And True Peace Dictates The Recognition Of Human Rights.

In An Atmosphere Of Liberty, Artists And Patrons Are Free To Think The Unthinkable And Create The Audacious; They Are Free To Make Both Horrendous Mistakes And Glorious Celebrations.

The United States Trades More With The Province Of Ontario Alone Than With Japan.

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