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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

-Ronald Reagan

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I Welcome This Chance

Ronald Reagan

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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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I'm Not A Politician By Profession. I Am A Citizen Who Decided I Had To Be Personally Involved.

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Fascism Was Really The Basis For The New Deal. It Was Mussolini's Success In Italy, With His Government-directed Economy, That Led The Early New Dealers To Say "but Mussolini Keeps The Trains Running On Time.

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.

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I've Often Wondered, What If All Of Us In The World Discovered That We Were Threatened By An Outer -- A Power From Outer Space, From Another Planet. Wouldn't We All Of A Sudden Find That We Didn't Have Any Differences Between Us At All, We Were All Human Beings, Citizens Of The World, And Wouldn't We Come Together To Fight That Particular Threat?

No Government Ever Voluntarily Reduces Itself In Size.

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.'

Generations Hence, Parents Will Take Their Children To These Woods To Show Them How The Land Must Have Looked To The First Pilgrims And Pioneers. And As Americans Wander Through These Forests, Climb These Mountains, They Will Sense The Love And Majesty Of The Creator Of All Of That.

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.

When You Can't Make Them See The Light, Make Them Feel The Heat.

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

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

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.

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].

Almost All The Worlds' Constitutions Are Documents In Which Governments Tell The People What Their Privileges Are. Our Constitution Is A Document In Which We The People Tell The Government What It Is Allowed To Do. We The People Are Free.

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?

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

I Don't Think Any Of Us Should Forget That The Security Of America Is Our Highest Responsibility.

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

What Has Happened To The Dreams Of The United Nations' Founders? What Has Happened To The Spirit Which Created The United Nations? The Answer Is Clear: Governments Got In The Way Of The Dreams Of The People.

If It Takes A Bloodbath Now Let's Get It Over With.

Surround Yourself With Great People; Delegate Authority; Get Out Of The Way

May Each Of You Have The Heart To Conceive, The Understanding To Direct, And The Hand To Execute Works That Will Leave The World A Little Better For Your Having Been Here.

I've Often Said There's Nothing Better For The Inside Of A Man Than The Outside Of A Horse.

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.

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

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

Without God, There Is No Virtue Because There Is No Prompting Of The Conscience... Without God, There Is A Coarsening Of The Society; Without God, Democracy Will Not And Cannot Long Endure.

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.

The Declaration Of Independence And The Constitution Of These United States Are Covenants We Have Made Not Only With Ourselves, But With All Mankind. Our Founding Documents Proclaim To The World That Freedom Is Not The Sole Prerogative Of A Chosen Few. It Is The Universal Right Of All God's Children.

This Administration Is Totally Colorblind.

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It's Been Written That The Most Sublime Figure In American History Was George Washington On His Knees In The Snow At Valley Forge. He Personified A People Who Knew That It Was Not Enough To Depend On Their Own Courage And Goodness, That They Must Also Seek Help From God - Their Father And Preserver. Where Did We Begin To Lose Sight Of That Noble Beginning, Of Our Conviction That Standards Of Right And Wrong Do Exist And Must Be Lived Up To? Do We Really Think That We Can Have It Both Ways, That God Will Protect Us In A Time Of Crisis Even As We Turn Away From Him In Our Day-to-day Life?

I Spoke To Ears That Refused To Hear.

How Could An Actor Become President?

I'm A Sucker For Hero Worship.

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

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Freedom Is Always Just One Generation Away From Extinction. We Don't Pass It To Our Children In The Bloodstream. We Have To Fight For It And Protect It And Then Hand It To Them, So That They Shall Do The Same, Or We're Going To Find Ourselves Spending Our Sunset Years Telling Our Children And Our Children's Children, About A Time In America, Back In The Day, When Men And Women Were Free.

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

You On The Cutting Edge Of Technology Have Already Made Yesterday's Impossibilities The Commonplace Realities Of Today.

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

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

Were Not Cutting The Budget Simply For The Sake Of Sounder Financial Management. This Is Only A First Step Toward Returning Power To The States And Communities, Only A First Step Toward Reordering The Relationship Between Citizen And Government.

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

Stick To Your Dreams And Determine That You're Going To Make Them Come True.

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

Church And State Are, And Must Remain, Separate.

I Believe The Best Social Program Is A Job.

Presidents Come And Go. History Comes And Goes, But Principles Endure.

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.

The Joke In Our Family Is That We Can Cry Reading The Phone Book.

This Crime Against Humanity Must Never Be Forgotten.

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

I Believe Moses Was 80 When God First Commissioned Him For Public Service.

I'm Spending More Time At This Library In Four Days Than I Did At The Eureka College Library In Four Years.

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

In Case Anybody Asks You About My Position On Capital Punishment, You Can Tell Them I Favor It; And If They Want To Know Why, You Can Tell Them This Story.

Small Business Is The Gateway To Opportunity For Those Who Want A Piece Of The American Dream... Well, Wouldn't It Be Nice To Hear A Little More About The Forgotten Heroes Of America - Those Who Create Most Of Our New Jobs, Like The Owners Of Stores Down The Street; The Faithfuls Who Support Our Churches, Synagogues, Schools, And Communities; The Brave Men And Women Everywhere Who Produce Our Goods, Feed A Hungry World, And Keep Our Families Warm While They Invest In The Future To Build A Better America? That's Where Miracles Are Made, Not In Washington, D.c.

The Future Is Best Decided By Ballots, Not Bullets.

Someone Must Stand Up To Those Who Say, "here's The Key, There's The Treasury, Just Take As Many Of Those Hard-earned Tax Dollars As You Want."

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

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

When Cruelty Is Inflicted On Innocent People, It Discredits Whatever Cause.

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.

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.

Politics And Morality Are Inseparable. And As Morality's Foundation Is Religion, Religion And Politics Are Necessarily Related. We Need Religion As A Guide. We Need It Because We Are Imperfect, And Our Government Needs The Church, Because Only Those Humble Enough To Admit They're Sinners Can Bring To Democracy The Tolerance It Requires In Order To Survive.

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.

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

If You Don't Know Whether A Body Is Alive Or Dead, You Would Never Bury It. I Think This Consideration Itself Should Be Enough For All Of Us To Insist On Protecting The Unborn.

'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.

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

Bureaucracy Is Adept At Protecting Its Nest.

This Is The Real Task Before Us: To Reassert Our Commitment As A Nation To A Law Higher Than Our Own, To Renew Our Spiritual Strength. Only By Building A Wall Of Such Spiritual Resolve Can We, As A Free People, Hope To Protect Our Own Heritage And Make It Someday The Birthright Of All Men.

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

Thomas Jefferson Once Said. He Said , "we Should Never Judge A President By His Age, Only By His Works." And Ever Since He Told Me That, I've Stopped Worrying. There Are Those Who Say I've Stopped Working.

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.

The Criminal Element Now Calculates That Crime Really Does Pay.

My Dream Is That You Will Travel The Road Ahead With Liberty's Lamp Guiding Your Steps And Opportunity's Arm Steadying Your Way.

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

I'm Beginning To Wonder If The Symbol Of The United States Pretty Soon Isn't Going To Be An Ambassador With A Flag Under His Arm Climbing Into An Escape Helicopter.

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

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

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

A Broader Reading Of History Shows That Appeasement, No Matter How It Is Labeled, Never Fulfills The Hopes Of The Appeasers.

There Are Those, Of Course, Who Claim We Must Give Up Freedom In Exchange For Economic Progress. Well, Pardon Me, But Anyone Trying To Sell You That Line Is No Better Than A Three-card-trick Man. One Thing Becoming More Clear Every Day Is That Freedom And Progress Go Hand In Hand. Throughout The Developing World, People Are Rejecting Socialism Because They See That It Doesn't Empower People, It Impoverishes Them.

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

In A World Wracked By Hatred, Economic Crisis, And Political Tension, America Remains Mankind's Best Hope.

People Don't Start Wars, Governments Do.

We Cannot Diminish The Value Of One Category Of Human Life -- The Unborn -- Without Diminishing The Value Of All Human Life . . . There Is No Cause More Important.

The First Amendment Of The Constitution Was Not Written To Protect The People From Religion; That Amendment Was Written To Protect Religion From Government Tyranny. . . But Now We're Told Our Children Have No Right To Pray In School. Nonsense. The Pendulum Has Swung Too Far Toward Intolerance Against Genuine Religious Freedom. It Is Time To Redress The Balance.

There Is No Security, No Safety, In The Appeasement Of Evil.

We Fought A War On Poverty, And Poverty Won

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Justice For All

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

When We Speak Of Peace, We Should Not Mean Just The Absence Of War. True Peace Rests On The Pillars Of Individual Freedom, Human Rights, National Self-determination, And Respect For The Rule Of Law.

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.

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There Is A Limit To What You Can Do In Politics.

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My Philosophy And My Belief Was That There Was A Long Way For Us To Go In Improving What We Had Ever Known Before, That This Country Of Ours Was A Country Of Constant Improvement. And So I Thought That, Well, What My Whole Approach Was Based On The Promise Of A Better America.

We Were Told Four Years Ago That 17 Million People Went To Bed Hungry Each Night. Well That Was Probably True. They Were All On A Diet.

Trains Are Not Any More Energy Efficient Than The Average Automobile, With Both Getting About 48 Passenger Miles To The Gallon.

I Can't Claim To Know The Words Of All The National Anthems In The World, But I Don't Know Of Any Other That Ends With A Question And A Challenge As Ours Does: Does That Flag Still Wave O'er The Land Of The Free And The Home Of The Brave? That Is What We Must All Ask.

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.

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.

Please Assure Me That You Are All Republicans.

Bobby Kennedy Is So Concerned With Poverty Because He Didn't Have Any As A Kid.

Cars Don't Cause Pollution, Trees Do.

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

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

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.

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.

Government Is Like A Baby. An Alimentary Canal With A Big Appetite At One End And No Sense Of Responsibility At The Other.

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

Die-hard Conservatives Thought That If I Couldn't Get Everything I Asked For, I Should Jump Off The Cliff With The Flag Flying-go Down In Flames. No, If I Can Get 70 Or 80 Percent Of What It Is I'm Trying To Get ... I'll Take That And Then Continue To Try To Get The Rest In The Future.

We Have The Means To Change The Laws We Find Unjust Or Onerous. We Cannot, As Citizens, Pick And Choose The Laws We Will Or Will Not Obey.

Our Status As A Free Society And World Power Is Not Based On Brute Strength. When We've Taken Up Arms, It Has Been For The Defense Of Freedom For Ourselves And For Other Peaceful Nations Who Needed Our Help. But Now, Faced With The Development Of Weapons With Immense Destructive Power, We've No Choice But To Maintain Ready Defense Forces That Are Second To None. Yes, The Cost Is High, But The Price Of Neglect Would Be Infinitely Higher.

F You Analyze It I Believe The Very Heart And Soul Of Conservatism Is Libertarianism. I Think Conservatism Is Really A Misnomer Just As Liberalism Is A Misnomer For The Liberals - If We Were Back In The Days Of The Revolution, So-called Conservatives Today Would Be The Liberals And The Liberals Would Be The Tories. The Basis Of Conservatism Is A Desire For Less Government Interference Or Less Centralized Authority Or More Individual Freedom And This Is A Pretty General Description Also Of What Libertarianism Is.

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

Excellence Does Not Begin In Washington.

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.

America Is Too Great For Small Dreams.

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.

Words Are Even More Feeble On This Memorial Day, For The Sight Before Us Is That Of A Strong And Good Nation That Stands In Silence And Remembers Those Who Were Loved And Who, In Return, Loved Their Countrymen Enough To Die For Them.

One Day We Will Spend Our Sunset Years Telling Our Children And Our Children's Children What It Was Once Like In The United States Where Men Were Free.

This Country Was Founded And Built By People With Great Dreams And The Courage To Take Great Risks.

If I'd Gotten The Job I Wanted At Montgomery Ward, I Suppose I Would Never Have Left Illinois.

I Notice That Everbody Who Is Pro-abortion Already Has Been Born.

I Remain California-bound

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 Must Act Today In Order To Preserve Tomorrow

The Little Dictator Who Went To Moscow In His Green Fatigues To Receive A Bear Hug Did Not Forsake The Doctrine Of Lenin When He Returned To The West And Appeared In A Two-piece Suit. (on Daniel Ortega Saavedra)

Two Soviets . . . Were Talking To Each Other. And One Of Them Asked, "what's The Difference Between The Soviet Constitution And The United States Constitution?" And The Other One Said, "that's Easy. The Soviet Constitution Guarantees Freedom Of Speech And Freedom Of Gathering. The American Constitution Guarantees Freedom After Speech And Freedom After Gathering."

I Think There Are Some Things ... That May Even Be Distorted In The Practice, Such As Some Affirmative Action Programs Becoming Quota Systems. And I'm Old Enough To Remember When Quotas Existed In The United States For The Purpose Of Discrimination, And I Don't Want To See That Happen Again.

I Think People Have A Need To Feel Good About The Country They Live In, But What's Happening, I Think, Is That That Need - Which Is A Good Thing - Is Getting Manipulated And Exploited.

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

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

Don't Be Afraid To See What You See.

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

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.

I Sometimes Think If Someone Appealed The Ten Commandments To Some Of Our Courts, They Would Rule - 'thou Shalt Not, Unless You Feel Strongly To The Contrary'.

You Hear A Lot Of Jokes Every Once In A While About 'silent Cal Coolidge.' The Joke Is On The People Who Make The Jokes. Look At His Record. He Cut The Taxes Four Times. We Had Probably The Greatest Growth And Prosperity That We've Ever Known. I Have Taken Heed Of That Because If He Did That By Doing Nothing, Maybe That's The Answer.

This Democracy Of Ours, Which Sometimes We've Treated So Lightly, Is More Than Ever A Comfortable Cloak, So Let Us Not Tear It Asunder, For No Man Knows, Once It Is Destroyed, Where Or When He Will Find Its Protective Warmth Again.

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.

I've Long Believed One Of The Mainsprings Of Our Own Liberty Has Been The Widespread Ownership Of Property Among Our People And The Expectation That Anyone's Child, Even From The Humblest Of Families, Could Grow Up To Own A Business Or Corporation.

Where Others Fear Trade And Economic Growth, We See Opportunities For Creating New Wealth And Undreamed-of Opportunities For Millions In Our Own Land And Beyond. Where Others Seek To Throw Up Barriers, We Seek To Bring Them Down; Where Others Take Counsel Of Their Fears, We Follow Our Hopes.

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.'

It's Silly Talking About How Many Years We Will Have To Spend In The Jungles Of Vietnam When We Could Pave The Whole Country And Put Parking Stripes On It And Still Be Home By Christmas.

One Hundred Nations In The Un Have Not Agreed With Us On Just About Everything That's Come Before Them, Where We're Involved, And It Didn't Upset My Breakfast At All.

Mr. Gorbachev, Tear Down This Wall!

Some Years Ago A Top Ford Official Was Showing The Late Walter Reuther Through The Very Automates Plant In Cleveland, Ohio And He Said To Him Jokingly, "walter, You'll Have A Hard Time Collecting Union Dues From These Machines." And Walter Said, "you Are Going To Have More Trouble Trying To Sell Automobiles To Them." Both Of Them Let It Stop There. There Was A Logical Answer To That ... The Owners Of The Machines Could Buy Automobiles And If You Increase The Number Of Owners You Increase The Number Of Consumers.

Let Us Renew Our Faith That As Free Men And Women We Still Have The Power To Better Our Lives.

Government Is Never More Dangerous Than When Our Desire To Have It Help Us Blinds Us To Its Great Power To Harm Us.

Christopher Columbus Was Looking For A Passage To India, But He Landed In America. He Landed In The Wrong Place, And When He Got Back, He Wasn't Sure Where He'd Been. But Most Important Of All, He Did It On Someone Else's Money.

Together, We'll Build A Far Better Future For America -- A Future Of Growth, Opportunity, And Security, Anchored By The Values Of A People Who Are Confident, Compassionate, And Whose Heart Is Good.

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.

Politics Is Just Like Show Business. You Have A Hell Of An Opening, Coast For A While, And Then Have A Hell Of A Close.

As Government Expands, Liberty Contracts.

You And I Have The Courage To Say To Our Enemies, 'there Is A Price We Will Not Pay.' There Is A Point Beyond Which They Must Not Advance. This Is The Meaning Of The Phrase 'peace Through Strength.'

A Moment I've Been Dreading. George Brought His Ne're-do-well Son Around This Morning And Asked Me To Find The Kid A Job. Not The Political One Who Lives In Florida. The One Who Hangs Around Here All The Time Looking Shiftless. This So-called Kid Is Already Almost 40 And Has Never Had A Real Job. Maybe I'll Call Kinsley Over At The New Republic And See If They'll Hire Him As A Contributing Editor Or Something. That Looks Like Easy Work.

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

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

It Would Seem That Not Only Is Religion Lacking In The Schools - So Is Common Sense. I Wonder What A Teacher Is Supposed To Say If A Kid Asks About Those Four Words On A Dime - 'in God We Trust.' Or Maybe That's Why They Aren't Being Taught How To Read These Days.

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

Government Steals From The Needy And Gives To The Greedy

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.

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

I'm Not Smart Enough To Lie

And We're Also Remembering The Guiding Light Of Our Judeo-christian Tradition. All Of Us Here Today Are Descendants Of Abraham, Isaac, And Jacob, Sons And Daughters Of The Same God. I Believe We Are Bound By Faith In Our God, By Our Love For Family And Neighborhood, By Our Deep Desire For A More Peaceful World, And By Our Commitment To Protect The Freedom Which Is Our Legacy As Americans. These Values Have Given A Renewed Sense Of Worth To Our Lives. They Are Infusing America With Confidence And Optimism That Many Thought We Had Lost.

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