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Israel Exists; It Has A Right To Exist In Peace Behind Secure And Defensible Borders; And It Has A Right To Demand Of Its Neighbors That They Recognize Those Facts. I Have Personally Followed And Supported Israel's Heroic Struggle For Survival, Ever Since The Founding Of The State Of Israel 34 Years Ago. In The Pre-1967 Borders Israel Was Barely 10 Miles Wide At Its Narrowest Point. The Bulk Of Israel's Population Lived Within Artillery Range Of Hostile Arab Armies. I Am Not About To Ask Israel To Live That Way Again.

-Ronald Reagan

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Israel Exists; It Has

Ronald Reagan

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Israel Exists; It Has A Right To Exist In Peace Behind Secure And Defensible Borders; And It Has A Right To Demand Of Its Neighbors That They Recognize Those Facts. I Have Personally Followed And Supported Israel's Heroic Struggle For Survival, Ever Since The Founding Of The State Of Israel 34 Years Ago. In The Pre-1967 Borders Israel Was Barely 10 Miles Wide At Its Narrowest Point. The Bulk Of Israel's Population Lived Within Artillery Range Of Hostile Arab Armies. I Am Not About To Ask Israel To Live That Way Again.

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I Warned That There Should Be No Place On Earth Where Terrorists Can Rest And Train And Practice Their Deadly Skills. I Meant It. I Said That We Would Act With Others, If Possible, And Alone If Necessary To Ensure That Terrorists Have No Sanctuary Anywhere. Tonight, We Have.

Now, I Happen To Be An Optimist.

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.

They Don't Subscribe To Our Sense Of Morality; They Don't Believe In An Afterlife; They Don't Believe In A God Or Religion. And The Only Morality They Recognize, Therefore, Is What Will Advance The Cause Or Socialism.

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.

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

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

The Frustrating Thing Is That Those Who Are Attacking Religion Claim They Are Doing It In The Name Of Tolerance, Freedom And Openmindedness. Question: Isn't The Real Truth That They Are Intolerant Of Religion? They Refuse To Tolerate Its Importance In Our Lives.

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

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

The Government Is Currently Experiencing Withdrawal Symptoms, And We Musn't Feed The Habit By Injecting More Tax Dollars Into It.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Over Hundred Years Ago Abraham Lincoln Signed The Homestead Act. There Was Wide Distribution Of Land And They Didn't Confiscate Anyone's Privately Owned Land... We Need An Industrial Homestead Act.

Bureaucracy Is Adept At Protecting Its Nest.

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 Have A Feeling That We Are Doing Better In The War Than The People Have Been Told.

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

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?

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.

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

Individual Liberty Depends Upon Keeping Government Under Control.

No Mother Would Ever Willingly Sacrifice Her Sons For Territorial Gain, For Economic Advantage, For Ideology.

Directly Down The Lawn And Accross The Ellipse From The White House Are Those Ordered, Classic Lines Of The Jefferson Memorial And The Eyes Of The 19-foot Statue That Gaze Directly Into The White House, A Reminder To Any Of Us Who Might Occupy That Mansion Of The Quality Of Mind And Generosity Of Heart That Once Abided There And Has Been So Rarely Seen There Again.

We Are Going To Put An End To The Notion That The American Taxpayer Exists To Fund The Federal Government.

I Sometimes Think Adam And Eve Were Russians. They Didn't Have A Roof Over Their Head, Nothing To Wear, But They Had One Apple Between Them And They Thought That Was Paradise.

I Received A Letter Just Before I Left Office From A Man. I Don't Know Why He Chose To Write It, But I'm Glad He Did. He Wrote That You Can Go To Live In France, But You Can't Become A Frenchman. You Can Go To Live In Germany Or Italy, But You Can't Become A German, An Italian. He Went Through Turkey, Greece, Japan And Other Countries. But He Said Anyone, From Any Corner Of The World, Can Come To Live In The United States And Become An American.

Nations Crumble From Within When The Citizenry Asks Of Government Those Things Which The Citizenry Might Better Provide For Itself.

Although I Held Public Office For A Total Of Sixteen Years, I Also Thought Of Myself As A Citizen-politician, Not A Career One. Every Now And Then When I Was In Government, I Would Remind My Associates That "when We Start Thinking Of Government As 'us' Instead Of 'them,' We've Been Here Too Long." By That I Mean That Elected Officeholders Need To Retain A Certain Skepticism About The Perfectibility Of Government.

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