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In Some Dim Beginning, Man Created The Institution Of Government As A Convenience For Himself. And, Ever Since That Time, Government Has Been Doing Its Best To Become An Inconvenience.

-Ronald Reagan

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In Some Dim Beginning,

Ronald Reagan

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In Some Dim Beginning, Man Created The Institution Of Government As A Convenience For Himself. And, Ever Since That Time, Government Has Been Doing Its Best To Become An Inconvenience.

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American Politics

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.

I Believe That Communism Is Another Sad, Bizarre Chapter In Human History Whose Last Pages Even Now Are Being Written. I Believe This Because The Source Of Our Strength In The Quest For Human Freedom Is Not Material, But Spiritual. And Because It Knows No Limitation, It Must Terrify And Ultimately Triumph Over Those Who Would Enslave Their Fellow Men.

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.

The Work Of Volunteer Groups Throughout Our Country Represents The Very Heart And Soul Of America. They Have Helped Make This The Most Compassionate, Generous, And Humane Society That Ever Existed On The Face Of This Earth.

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

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.

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.

The Very Heart And Soul Of Conservatism Is Libertarianism.

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

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

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

Our Loyalty Lies With Little Taxpayers, Not Big Spenders. What Our Critics Really Believe Is That Those In Washington Know Better How To Spend Your Money Than You, The People, Do. But We're Not Going To Let Them Do It, Period.

In Closing, Let Me Thank You, The American People, For Giving Me The Great Honor Of Allowing Me To Serve As Your President. When The Lord Calls Me Home, Whenever That Day May Be, I Will Leave With The Greatest Love For This Country Of Ours And Eternal Optimism For Its Future. I Now Begin The Journey That Will Lead Me Into The Sunset Of My Life. I Know That For America There Will Always Be A Bright Dawn Ahead.

We Must Reject The Idea That Every Time A Law's Broken, Society Is Guilty Rather Than The Lawbreaker. It Is Time To Restore The American Precept That Each Individual Is Accountable For His Actions.

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

I Have Been One Who Believes That Abortion Is The Taking Of A Human Life . . . . The Fact That They Could Not Resolve The Issue Of When Life Begins Was A Finding In And Of Itself. If We Don't Know, Then Shouldn't We Morally Opt On The Side That It Is Life? If You Came Upon An Immobile Body And You Yourself Could Not Determine Whether It Was Dead Or Alive, I Think That You Would Decide To Consider It Alive Until Somebody Could Prove It Was Dead. You Wouldn't Get A Shovel And Start Covering It Up. And I Think We Should Do The Same Thing With Regard To Abortion.

...i Believe That It Is Not Enough, As I Said, To Tinker At The Margins Of U.s. Immigration Law... The United States Must Institute Comprehensive Reforms That Conform To The Realities Of The Era In Which We Live.

In This Present Crisis, Government Is Not The Solution To Our Problem, Government Is The Problem. It Isn't So Much That Liberals Are Ignorant, It's Just That They Know So Much That Isn't So.

Honey, I Forgot To Duck

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

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.'

These Young Americans Sent A Message To Terrorists Everywhere. . . . You Can Run But You Can't Hide.

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

For Centuries The Bible's Emphasis On Compassion And Love For Our Neighbor Has Inspired Institutional And Governmental Expressions Of Benevolent Outreach Such As Private Charity, The Establishment Of Schools And Hospitals, And The Abolition Of Slavery.

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

I Can't Help But Believe That In The Future We Will See In The United States And Throughout The Western World An Increasing Trend Toward The Next Logical Step, Employee Ownership. It Is A Path That Befits A Free People.

We Will Always Remember. We Will Always Be Proud. We Will Always Be Prepared, So We Will Always Be Free.

I Know At Times We Feel That Perhaps In Our Prayers We Ask Too Much. Or Possibly We Feel Something Isn't Important Enough To Be Bothering God With It. Maybe We Should Let Him Decide These Things.

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

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

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.

I Know Teddy Kennedy Had Fun At The Democratic Convention When He Said That I Said That Trees And Vegetation Caused 80 Percent Of The Air Pollution In This Country. ... Well, Now He Was A Little Wrong About What I Said. I Didn't Say 80 Percent. I Said 92 Percent-93 Percent, Pardon Me. And I Didn't Say Air Pollution, I Said Oxides Of Nitrogen. Growing And Decaying Vegetation In This Land Are Responsible For 93 Percent Of The Oxides Of Nitrogen. ... If We Are Totally Successful And Can Eliminate All The Manmade Oxides Of Nitrogen, We'll Still Have 93 Percent As Much As We Have In The Air Today.

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.

If You've Seen One Redwood, You've Seen Them All.

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

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