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If We Look To The Answer As To Why For So Many Years We Achieved So Much, Prospered As No Other People On Earth, It Was Because Here In This Land We Unleashed The Energy And Individual Genius Of Man To A Greater Extent Than Has Ever Been Done Before. Freedom And The Dignity Of The Individual Have Been More Available And Assured Here Than In Any Other Place On Earth. The Price For This Freedom At Times Has Been High, But We Have Never Been Unwilling To Pay That Price.

-Ronald Reagan

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If We Look To The Answer As To Why For So Many Years We Achieved So Much, Prospered As No Other People On Earth, It Was Because Here In This Land We Unleashed The Energy And Individual Genius Of Man To A Greater Extent Than Has Ever Been Done Before. Freedom And The Dignity Of The Individual Have Been More Available And Assured Here Than In Any Other Place On Earth. The Price For This Freedom At Times Has Been High, But We Have Never Been Unwilling To Pay That Price.

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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.

I Am Told That Tens Of Thousands Of Prayer Meetings Are Being Held On This Day; For That I Am Deeply Grateful. We Are A Nation Under God, And I Believe God Intended For Us To Be Free. It Would Be Fitting And Good, I Think, If On Each Inaugural Day In Future Years It Should Be Declared A Day Of Prayer.

America Is Too Great For Small Dreams.

We've Gone Astray From First Principles. We've Lost Sight Of The Rule That Individual Freedom And Ingenuity Are At The Very Core Of Everything That We've Accomplished. Government's First Duty Is To Protect The People, Not Run Their Lives.

If The Family Goes, So Goes Our Civilization.

America Has Begun A Spiritual Reawakening. Faith And Hope Are Being Restored. Americans Are Turning Back To God. Church Attendance Is Up. Audiences For Religious Books And Broadcasts Are Growing. And I Do Believe That He Has Begun To Heal Our Blessed Land.

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

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

There Are Worse Things To Be Called Than A Dreamer.

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.'

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

It Is The Tendency Of Government To Grow, For Practices And Programs To Become The Nearest Thing To Eternal Life We'll See On This Earth.

I Believe With All My Heart That Our First Priority Must Be World Peace, And That Use Of Force Is Always And Only A Last Resort, When Everything Else Has Failed, And Then Only With Regard To Our National Security.

The Federal Government Has Taken Too Much Tax Money From The People, Too Much Authority From The States, And Too Much Liberty With The Constitution.

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

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.

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

I Recently Learned Something Quite Interesting About Video Games. Many Young People Have Developed Incredible Hand, Eye, And Brain Coordination In Playing These Games. The Air Force Believes These Kids Will Be Our Outstanding Pilots Should They Fly Our Jets.

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

There's No Question I Am An Idealist, Which Is Another Way Of Saying 'i Am An American.'

Poverty Is A Career For Lot's Of Well Paid People

I Think The Presidency Is An Institution Over Which You Have Temporary Custody.

Freedom Is Not The Sole Prerogative Of A Chosen Few, But The Universal Right Of All God's Children.

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

Our Federal Tax System Is, In Short, Utterly Impossible, Utterly Unjust And Completely Counterproductive . . . [it] Reeks With Injustice, And Is Fundamentally Un-american

Marijuana Is Probably The Most Dangerous Drug In America Today.

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.

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.

America Is Still An Eagle, And She's Ready To Soar Again.

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

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.

If History Teaches Us Anything, It Teaches That Simple-minded Appeasement Or Wishful Thinking About Our Adversaries Is Folly.

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)

I Believe No Challenge Is More Important To The Character Of America Than Restoring The Right To Life To All Human Beings.

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

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.

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.

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

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

An Old Russian Woman Goes Into Kremlin, Gets An Audience With Mikhail Gorbachev And Says, In America Anyone Can Go To The White House, Walk Up To Reagan's Desk And Say, 'i Don't Like The Way You Are Running The Country.' Gorbachev Replied, You Can Do The Same Thing In The Soviet Union. You Can Go Into The Kremlin, Walk Up To My Desk And Say 'i Don't Like The Way Reagan Is Running His Country.'

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?'

Congressional Mistakes Have Dramatically Increased Immigration Through A Series Of What I Believe Were Ill-advised Actions Going Back To 1965 When The Basic Notions Of Our Immigration Laws Were Revised. In 1990, Congress Opened The Floodgates By Passing A 35-percent Increase In Legal Immigration.

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

Every Year, An Average Of 9,200 Americans Are Murdered By Handguns, According To Department Of Justice Statistics. This Does Not Include Suicides Or The Tens Of Thousands Of Robberies, Rapes And Assaults Committed With Handguns. This Level Of Violence Must Be Stopped.

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... Let Us Renew Our Faith That As Free Men And Women We Still Have The Power To Better Our Lives, And Let Us Resolve To Face The Challenges Of The New Year Holding That Conviction Firmly In Our Hearts. That, After All, Is Our Greatest Strength And Our Greatest Gift As Americans.

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

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

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

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

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

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

We're Told About A Woman's Right To Control Her Own Body. But Doesn't The Unborn Child Have A Higher Right, And That Is To Life, Liberty, And The Pursuit Of Happiness?

Pursuit Of Happiness

I Also Believe This Blessed Land Was Set Apart In A Very Special Way, A Country Created By Men And Women Who Came Here Not In Search Of Gold, But In Search Of God. They Would Be Free People, Living Under The Law With Faith In Their Maker And Their Future. Sometimes, It Seems We've Strayed From That Noble Beginning, From Our Conviction That Standards Of Right And Wrong Do Exist And Must Be Lived Up To.

We Have Seen Numerous Instances In Which American Businesses Have Brought In Foreign Skilled Workers After Having Laid Off Skilled American Workers, Simply Because They Can Get The Foreign Workers More Cheaply. It Has Become A Major Means Of Circumventing The Costs Of Paying Skilled American Workers Or The Costs Of Training Them.

Please Assure Me That You Are All Republicans.

The Nine Most Terrifying Words In The English Language Are "i'm From The Government, And I'm Here To Help."

Constructive Trade, The Two-way Exchange Of Goods And Services, Is The Most Efficient And Logical Way For Each Nation . . . To Build A Stable Prosperity, A Prosperity Based Not On Aid, But On Mutually Beneficial Economic Contacts.

Of The Many Messages Found In The Hanukah Story, The One That Has Always Inspired Me Most Is This: With A Strong Faith In The Almighty, Nothing Is Impossible; And Without The Help Of Our Creator, We Labor In Vain.

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

The United States And The Freedom For Which It Stands, The Freedom For Which They Died, Must Endure And Prosper. Their Lives Remind Us That Freedom Is Not Bought Cheaply. It Has A Cost; It Imposes A Burden. And Just As They Whom We Commemorate Were Willing To Sacrifice, So Too Must We - In A Less Final, Less Heroic Way - Be Willing To Give Of Ourselves.

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

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.

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.

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

We Now Know That Inflation Results From All That Deficit Spending.

I Can't Believe That This World Can Go On Beyond Our Generation And On Down To Succeeding Generations With This Kind Of Weapon On Both Sides Poised At Each Other Without Someday Some Fool Or Some Maniac Or Some Accident Triggering The Kind Of War That Is The End Of The Line For All Of Us. And I Just Think Of What A Sigh Of Relief Would Go Up From Everyone On This Earth If Someday-and This Is What I Have-my Hope, Way In The Back Of My Head-is That If We Start Down The Road To Reduction, Maybe One Day In Doing That, Somebody Will Say, 'why Not All The Way? Let's Get Rid Of All These Things'.

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.

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.

My Friends, We Did It. We Weren't Just Marking Time, We Made A Difference. We Made (america) Stronger - We Made (america) Freer - And We Left Her In Good Hands. All In All, Not Bad. Not Bad At All. And So, Goodbye. God Bless You. And God Bless The United States Of America.

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

The Federal Reserve Is Answerable To No One.

Federal Reserve

People Don't Start Wars, Governments Do.

I Have Come To The Conclusion That The 22nd Amendment [limiting The Presidency To Two Terms] Was A Mistake. Shouldn't The People Have The Right To Vote For Someone As Many Times As They Want To Vote For Him?

Fascism Was Really The Basis For The New Deal.

America Is A Melting Pot, And Education Has Been A Mainspring For Our Democracy And Freedom, A Means Of Providing Gifts Of Knowledge And Opportunity To All Citizens, No Matter How Humble Their Background, So They Could Climb Higher, Help Build The American Dream, And Leave A Better Life For Those Who Follow.

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.

In An Ironic Sense, Karl Marx Was Right. We Are Witnessing Today A Great Revolutionary Crisis, A Crisis Where The Demands Of The Economic Order Are Conflicting Directly With Those Of The Political Order. But The Crisis Is Happening Not In The . . . West, But In The Home Of Marxism-leninism, The Soviet Union. It Is The Soviet Union That Runs Against The Tide Of History By Denying Human Freedom And Human Dignity To Its Citizens.

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.

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

Federal Government

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

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

Trees Cause Pollution.

Freedom Prospers When Religion Is Vibrant And The Rule Of Law Under God Is Acknowledged.

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.

Are You Better Off Than You Were Four Years Ago? One Of My Favorite Quotes Is It Easier For You To Go And Buy Things In The Stores ... Is There More Or Less Unemployment?

It Should Be The Right Of The Individual To Decide Whether He Wants To Belong To A Union.

Entrepreneurs And Their Small Enterprises Are Responsible For Almost All The Economic Growth In The United States.

Either You Will Control Your Government, Or Government Will Control You.

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

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

So In Your Discussions Of The Nuclear Freeze Proposals, I Urge You To Beware The Temptation Of Pride - The Temptation Blithely To Declare Yourselves Above It All And Label Both Sides Equally At Fault, To Ignore The Facts Of History And The Aggressive Impulses Of An Evil Empire, To Simply Call The Arms Race A Giant Misunderstanding And Thereby Remove Yourself From The Struggle Between Right And Wrong, Good And Evil.

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.

Welfare's Purpose Should Be To Eliminate, As Far As Possible, The Need For Its Own Existence.

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

Freedom Is The Recognition That No Single Person, No Single Authority Or Government Has A Monopoly On The Truth, But That Every Individual Life Is Infinitely Precious, That Every One Of Us Put In This World Has Been Put There For A Reason And Has Something To Offer.

Mankind's Journey Into Space, Like Every Great Voyage Of Discovery, Will Become Part Of Our Unending Journey Of Liberation. In The Limitless Reaches Of Space, We Will Find Liberation From Tyranny, From Scarcity, From Ignorance And From War. We Will Find The Means To Protect This Earth And To Nurture Every Human Life, And To Explore The Universe. . . .this Is Our Mission, This Is Our Destiny.

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.

America's Best Days Lie Ahead. You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet.

I Believe The Highest Aspiration Of Man Should Be Individual Freedom And The Development Of The Individual.

Form And Substance Are Opposite Ends Of The Same Coin.

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

Concentrated Power Has Always Been The Enemy Of Liberty. Democracy Is Worth Dying For, Because It's The Most Deeply Honorable Form Of Government Ever Devised By Man.entrepreneurs And Their Small Enterprises Are Responsible For Almost All The Economic Growth In The United States.

We Cannot Survive As A Free Nation When Some Men Decide That Others Are Not Fit To Live And Should Be Abandoned To Abortion Or Infanticide...t Here Is No Cause More Important For Preserving That Freedom Than Affirming The Transcendent Right To Life Of All Human Beings, The Right Without Which No Other Rights Have Any Meaning.

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

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

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.

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

I Know I'm Not In Government Anymore. In Fact I'm Out Of Work.

Latinos Are Republican. They Just Don't Know It Yet.

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

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.

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.

Seventy-five Years Ago I Was Born In Tampico, Illinois, In A Little Flat Above The Bank Building. We Didn't Have Any Other Contact With The Bank Than That.

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.

Republicans Believe Every Day Is The Fourth Of July, But The Democrats Believe Every Day Is April 15.

The Nra Believes America's Laws Were Made To Be Obeyed And That Our Constitutional Liberties Are Just As Important Today As 200 Years Ago. And By The Way, The Constitution Does Not Say Government Shall Decree The Right To Keep And Bear Arms. The Constitution Says 'the Right Of The People To Keep And Bear Arms Shall Not Be Infringed.'

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

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.

One Of Mankind's Problems Is We Keep Committing The Same Errors.

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

I Supported This Bill. I Believe In The Idea Of Amnesty For Those Who Have Put Down Roots And Who Have Lived Here Even Though Sometime Back They May Have Entered Illegally.

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

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 National Democratic Leadership Is Going So Far Left, They've Left America. Don't Let Them Bury The American Dream In Their Graveyard Of Gloom And Envy.

The Problem Is Not That People Are Taxed Too Little, The Problem Is That Government Spends Too Much.

I Deplore The Tendency, In Some Institutions, To Go Directly Toward Training For A Trade Or Profession Or Something And Ignoring The Liberal Arts. It Is The Foundation Of Education.

The American Petroleum Institute Filed Suit Against The Epa [and] Charged That The Agency Was Suppressing A Scientific Study For Fear It Might Be Misinterpreted... The Suppressed Study Reveals That 80 Percent Of Air Pollution Comes Not From Chimneys And Auto Exhaust Pipes, But From Plants And Trees.

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.

Where There's Liberty, Art Succeeds.

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?

. . . And Always Remember That You Are Americans, And It Is Your Birthright To Dream Great Dreams In This Sweet And Blessed Land, Truly The Greatest, Freest, Strongest Nation On Earth.

We Can't Build A Safer World With Honorable Intentions And Good Will Alone. Achieving The Fundamental Goals Our Nation Seeks In World Affairs - Peace, Human Rights, Economics Progress National Independence And International Stability - Means Supporting Our Friends And Defending Our Interests.

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.

Our Country Is Great Because It Is Built On Principles Of Self-reliance, Opportunity, Innovation, And Compassion For Others.

With Regard To The Freedom Of The Individual For Choice With Regard To Abortion, There Is One Individual Who Is Not Being Considered At All, And That Is The One Who Is Being Aborted. And I Have Noticed That Everybody That Is For Abortion Has Already Been Born.

Nothing Lasts Longer Than A Temporary Government Program.

It Was The Hard Work Of Our People, The Freedom They Enjoyed And Their Faith In God That Built This Country And Made It The Envy Of The World. In All Of Our Great Cities And Towns Evidence Of The Faith Of Our People Is Found: Houses Of Worship Of Every Denomination Are Among The Oldest Structures. While Never Willing To Bow To A Tyrant, Our Forefathers Were Always Willing To Get To Their Knees Before God. When Catastrophe Threatened, They Turned To God For Deliverance. When The Harvest Was Bountiful The First Thought Was Thanksgiving To God.

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.

The District Of Columbia Is One Gigantic Ear.

Let Us Ask Ourselves; "what Kind Of People Do We Think We Are?"

I Oppose Registration For The Draft... Because I Believe The Security Of Freedom Can Best Be Achieved By Security Through Freedom.

A Drastic Reduction In The Deficit...will Take Place In The Fiscal Year '82.

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.

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.

After Watching The State Of The Union Address The Other Night [1994], I'm Reminded Of The Old Adage That Imitation Is The Sincerest Form Of Flattery. Only In This Case, It's Not Flattery, But Grand Larceny: The Intellectual Theft Of Ideas That You And I Recognize As Our Own. Speech Delivery Counts For Little On The World Stage Unless You Have Convictions, And, Yes, The Vision To See Beyond The Front Row Seats.

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.

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

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.

We Are Not A Warlike People. Nor Is Our History Filled With Tales Of Aggressive Adventures And Imperialism, Which Might Come As A Shock To Some Of The Placard Painters In Our Modern Demonstrations. The Lesson Of Vietnam, I Think, Should Be That Never Again Will Young Americans Be Asked To Fight And Possibly Die For A Cause Unless That Cause Is So Meaningful That We, As A Nation, Pledge Our Full Resources To Achieve Victory As Quickly As Possible.

Cannot Swords Be Turned To Plowshares? Can We And All Nations Not Live In Peace? In Our Obsession With Antagonisms Of The Moment, We Often Forget How Much Unites All The Members Of Humanity. Perhaps We Need Some Outside, Universal Threat To Make Us Recognize This Common Bond. I Occasionally Think How Quickly Our Differences Worldwide Would Vanish If We Were Facing An Alien Threat From Outside This World. And Yet, I Ask You, Is Not An Alien Force Already Among Us? What Could Be More Alien To The Universal Aspirations Of Our Peoples Than War And The Threat Of War?

A Nuclear War Cannot Be Won And Must Never Be Fought. The Only Value In Our Two Nations Possessing Nuclear Weapons Is To Make Sure They Will Never Be Used. But Then Would It Not Be Better To Do Away With Them Entirely?

Nuclear Missiles

If Politics Were A Musical, It Would Be "promises, Promises".

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

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

On Father's Day, We Pay Tribute To All In Our Society Who Have Taken On The Responsibilities And Joys Of Fatherhood. Whether Our Fathers Are Near At Hand Or A Continent Away, With Their Families Or Watching From The Light Of Eternity, We Take This Day To Remember Them, To Say Our Thanks For The Years They Have Given Us, And To Ask That They Receive God's Blessings.

By 1980, We Knew It Was Time To Renew Our Faith, To Strive With All Our Strength Toward The Ultimate In Individual Freedom Consistent With An Orderly Society. We Believed Then And Now There Are No Limits To Growth And Human Progress When Men And Women Are Free To Follow Their Dreams.

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

These Are The Boys Of Pointe Du Hoc. These Are The Men Who Took The Cliffs. These Are The Champions Who Helped Free A Continent. These Are The Heroes Who Helped End A War.

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.

I Couldn't Help But Say To [mr. Gorbachev], Just Think How Easy His Task And Mine Might Be In These Meetings That We Held If Suddenly There Was A Threat To This World From Another Planet. [we'd] Find Out Once And For All That We Really Are All Human Beings Here On This Earth Together.

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

The True Lesson Of The Vietnam War Is: Certainty Of Purpose And Ruthlessness Of Execution Win Wars.

It Is The Soviet Union That Runs Against The Tide Of Human History By Denying Human Freedom And Human Dignity To Its Citizens.

Government Steals From The Needy And Gives To The Greedy

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

A University Is A Place Where Ancient Tradition Thrives Alongside The Most Revolutionary Ideas. Perhaps As No Other Institution, A University Is Simultaneously Committed To The Day Before Yesterday And The Day After Tomorrow.

Our Leaders Must Remember That Education Doesn't Begin With Some Isolated Bureaucrat In Washington. It Doesn't Even Begin With State Or Local Officials. Education Begins In The Home, Where It Is A Parental Right And Responsibility.

The Federalist Society Is Changing The Culture Of Our Nation's Law Schools. You Are Returning The Values And Concepts Of Law As Our Founders Understood Them To Scholarly Dialogue, And Through That Dialogue, To Our Legal Institutions.

The Societies Which Have Achieved The Most Spectacular Broad-based Economic Progress In The Shortest Period Of Time Are Not The Most Tightly Controlled, Not Necessarily The Biggest In Size, Or The Wealthiest In Natural Resources. No, What Unites Them All Is Their Willingness To Believe In The Magic Of The Marketplace.

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

We Will Never Disarm Any American Who Seeks To Protect His Or Her Family From Fear And Harm.

I Hope You're All Republicans.

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

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.

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.

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

You Will Be Competing Against Athletes From Many Nations. But, Most Important, You Are Competing Against Yourself. All We Expect Is For You To Do Your Very Best, To Push Yourself Just One Second Faster, One Notch Higher, One Inch Further.

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

We Will Remain Steady. We Will Pursue Every Avenue In The Search For Peace And Stability.

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.

Evil Is Powerless If The Good Are Unafraid.

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

...100% Of What Is Collected Is Absorbed Solely By Interest On The Federal Debt...all Individual Income Tax Revenues Are Gone Before One Nickel Is Spent On The Services Taxpayers Expect From Government.

We Have So Many People Who Can't See A Fat Man Standing Beside A Thin One Without Coming To The Conclusion That The Fat Man Got That Way By Taking Advantage Of The Thin One!

The Doors Of This Library Are Open Now And Are All Welcome. The Judgment Of History Is Left To You, The People. I Have No Fears Of That, For We Have Done Our Best. And So I Say, Come And Learn From It.

Man Is Not Free Unless Government Is Limited.

Dreams Became Issues Of East Versus West. Hopes Became Political Rhetoric. Progress Became A Search For Power And Domination. Somewhere The Truth Was Lost That People Don't Make War, Governments Do.

When A Business Or An Individual Spends More Than It Makes, It Goes Bankrupt. When Government Does It, It Sends You The Bill. And When Government Does It For 40 Years, The Bill Comes In Two Ways: Higher Taxes And Inflation. Make No Mistake About It, Inflation Is A Tax And Not By Accident.

We Must Realize That No Arsenal Or No Weapon In Arsenals Of The World Is So Formidable As The Will And Moral Courage Of Free Men And Women. It Is A Weapon Our Adversaries In Today's World Do Not Have. It Is A Weapon That We As Americans Do Have. Let That Be Understood By Those Who Practice Terrorism And Prey Upon Their Neighbors. 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. We Are Americans.

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.

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 Philosophy Of Life Is That If We Make Up Our Mind What We Are Going To Make Of Our Lives, Then Work Hard Toward That Goal, We Never Lose - Somehow We Win Out.

Medicare Will Usher In Federal Programs That Will Invade Every Area Of Freedom As We Have Know It In This Country.

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

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 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.

Freedom Is Never More Than One Generation Away From Extinction.

America Is The Moral Force That Defeated Communism And All Those Who Would Put The Human Soul Itself Into Bondage.

Education Is Like A Diamond With Many Facets: It Includes The Basic Mastery Of Numbers And Letters That Give Us Access To The Treasury Of Human Knowledge, Accumulated And Refined Through The Ages; It Includes Technical And Vocational Training As Well As Instruction In Science, Higher Mathematics, And Humane Letters.

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.

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