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My Central Arms Control Objective Has Been To Reduce Substantially And Ultimately To Eliminate Nuclear Weapons And Rid The World Of The Nuclear Threat. The Prevention Of The Spread Of Nuclear Explosives Is To Additional Countries Is An Indispensable Part Of Our Efforts To Meet This Objective. I Intend To Continue My Pursuit Of This Goal With Untiring Determination And A Profound Sense Of Personal Commitment.

-Ronald Reagan

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Ronald Reagan

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My Central Arms Control Objective Has Been To Reduce Substantially And Ultimately To Eliminate Nuclear Weapons And Rid The World Of The Nuclear Threat. The Prevention Of The Spread Of Nuclear Explosives Is To Additional Countries Is An Indispensable Part Of Our Efforts To Meet This Objective. I Intend To Continue My Pursuit Of This Goal With Untiring Determination And A Profound Sense Of Personal Commitment.

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If You Think You Can - You Can!

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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.

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Freedom Is The Right To Question And Change The Established Way Of Doing Things.

Freedom Liberty

Every New Day Begins With Possibilities. It's Up To Us To Fill It With The Things That Move Us Toward Progress And Peace.

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

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Please Assure Me That You Are All Republicans.

Double - No, Triple - Our Troubles And We'd Still Be Better Off Than Any Other People On Earth.

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

The Time Has Come To Turn To God And Reassert Our Trust In Him For The Healing Of America - Our Country Is In Need Of And Ready For A Spiritual Renewal.

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I Don't Have Too Much Time For Fiction.

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Status Quo, You Know, Is Latin For 'the Mess We're In'.

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Peace Is Not Absence Of Conflict, It Is The Ability To Handle Conflict By Peaceful Means.

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Show Me An Executive That Works Long Hard Hours And I'll Show You A Bad Executive.

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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.

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

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.

We Can Look Forward To The Day When The Free Flow Of Trade, From The Southern Reaches Of Tierra Del Fuego To The Northern Outposts Of The Arctic Circle, Unites The People Of The Western Hemisphere In A Bond Of Mutually Beneficial Exchange, When All Borders Become What The U.s.-canadian Border So Long Has Been: A Meeting Place, Rather Than A Dividing Line.

A Political Party Cannot Be All Things To All People. It Must Represent Certain Fundamental Beliefs Which Must Not Be Compromised To Political Expediency, Or Simply To Swell Its Numbers.

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.

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.

I Was Going To Have An Opening Statement, But I Decided That What I Was Going To Say I Wanted To Get A Lot Of Attention, So I'm Going To Wait And Leak It.

Here's My Strategy On The Cold War: We Win, They Lose.

Americans Are Not Going To Tolerate Intimidation, Terror And Outright Acts Of War Against This Nation And Its People. And We Are Especially Not Going To Tolerate These Attacks From Outlaw States Run By The Strangest Collection Of Misfits, Looney Tunes And Squalid Criminals Since The Advent Of The Third Reich ... There Can Be No Place On Earth Where It Is Safe For These Monsters To Rest,or Train Or Practice Their Cruel And Deadly. We Must Act Together - Or Unilateraly, If Necessary - To Ensue That These Terrorists Have No Sanctuary, Anywhere.

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.

The Freedom Of Thought And Action We Americans Enjoy Today Seems As Natural As The Air We Breathe. But There Is A Danger We May Take This Freedom For Granted. We Must Never Forget It Was Bought For Us At A Great Price. The Brave And Resourceful Americans Whose Sacrifices Gained Our Independence And Preserved It For More Than 200 Years Against Formidable Foes Have Set An Example Of Unflinching Loyalty To The Ideal Of Liberty And Justice For All.

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The Greatest Security For Israel Is To Create New Egypts.

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One Picture Is Worth 1,000 Denials.

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If You Want More Of Something, Subsidize It; If You Want Less Of Something, Tax It.

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.

Are You Entitled To The Fruits Of Your Own Labor Or Does Government Have Some Presumptive Right To Spend And Spend And Spend?

I Believe That The Most Essential Element Of Our Defense Of Freedom Is Our Insistence On Speaking Out For The Cause Of Religious Liberty.

The Glory Of This Land Has Been Its Capacity For Transcending The Moral Evils Of Our Past. For Example, The Long Struggle Of Minority Citizens For Equal Rights, Once A Source Of Disunity And Civil War, Is Now A Point Of Pride For All Americans. We Must Never Go Back. There Is No Room For Racism, Anti-semitism, Or Other Forms Of Ethnic And Racial Hatred In This Country.

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

Now, I Happen To Be An Optimist.

Our Opponents See An America In Which Every Day Is April 15, Tax Day. Well, We See An America In Which Every Day Is The Fourth Of July.

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

I Was Raised To Believe That God Has A Plan For Everyone And That Seemingly Random Twists Of Fate Are All A Part Of His Plan.

It's Not Fair To Say That Congress Spends Money Like A Drunk Sailor. At Least The Sailor Is Spending His Own Money!

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.

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

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

I Was Alarmed At My Doctor's Report: He Said I Was Sound As A Dollar.

Perhaps No Custom Reveals Our Character As A Nation So Clearly As Our Celebration Of Thanksgiving Day.

We Must Remove Government's Smothering Hand From Where It Does Harm; We Must Seek To Revitalize The Proper Functions Of Government. We Do These Things To Set Loose Again The Energy And The Ingenuity Of The American People. We Do These Things To Reinvigorate Those Social And Economic Institutions Which Serve As A Buffer And A Bridge Between The Individual And The State - And Which Remain The Real Source Of Our Progress As A People.

I'll Be Like Scarlett O'hara-i'll Think About It Tomorrow.

When I've Heard All I Need To Make A Decision, I Don't Take A Vote. I Make A Decision.

We're Here To Mark That Day In History When The Allied Peoples Joined In Battle To Reclaim This Continent To Liberty. For Four Long Years, Much Of Europe Had Been Under A Terrible Shadow. Free Nations Had Fallen, Jews Cried Out In The Camps, Millions Cried Out For Liberation. Europe Was Enslaved, And The World Prayed For Its Rescue. Here In Normandy The Rescue Began. Here The Allies Stood And Fought Against Tyranny In A Giant Undertaking Unparalleled In Human History.

Before I Refuse To Take Your Questions, I Have An Opening Statement.

I Doubt Evolution Is Real.

Concentrated Power Has Always Been The Enemy Of Liberty.

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

I Won't Hold My Opponent's Youth And Inexperience Against Him.

When Government Gets Too Big, Freedom Is Lost. Government Is Supposed To Be The Servant. But When A Government Can Tax The People With No Limit Or Restraint On What The Government Can Take, Then The Government Has Become The Master.

The People Of Central America - And, In A Broader Sense, The Entire Developing World - Need To Know First-hand That Freedom And Opportunity Are Not Just For The Elite, But The Birthright Of Every Citizen; That Property Is Not Just Something Enjoyed By A Few, But Can Be Owned By Any Individual Who Works Hard And Makes Correct Decisions.

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

One Day, A Pretty, Fresh-faced Young Lady - Intelligent And Sincerely Concerned - Asked Me If Abortion Wasn't Preferable To Making A Young, Unmarried Girl Have A Baby She Didn't Want And Which Would, Therefore, Grow Up Unloved And Probably Turn Out To Be A Criminal. I Gave An Answer Which Apparently She Hadn't Considered. I Told Her There Were Literally Millions Of People In This Country Who Wanted But Could Not Have Children And Who Waited Eagerly, Sometimes For Years, To Adopt The Baby She Had Described.

You And I Are Told We Must Choose Between A Left Or Right, But I Suggest There Is No Such Thing As A Left Or Right. There Is Only An Up Or Down. Up To Man's Age-old Dream -- The Maximum Of Individual Freedom Consistent With Order --or Down To The Ant Heap Of Totalitarianism. Regardless Of Their Sincerity, Their Humanitarian Motives, Those Who Would Sacrifice Freedom For Security Have Embarked On This Downward Path.

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.

Through The History Of Our Nation, Americans Have Always Extended Their Hands In Gestures Of Assistance.

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.

They [the Soviet Union] Are The Focus Of Evil In The Modern World.

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

Abortion Is Advocated Only By Persons Who Have Themselves Been Born.

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.

We Do Not Deny Any Nation's Legitimate Interest In Security. But Protecting The Security Of One Nation By Robbing Another Of Its National Independence And National Traditions Is Not Legitimate. In The Long Run, It Is Not Even Secure.

I Do Not Believe In Taking Away The Right Of The Citizen For Sporting, For Hunting And So Forth, Or For Home Defense. But I Do Believe That An Ak-47, A Machine Gun, Is Not A Sporting Weapon Or Needed For Defense Of A Home.

The Founding Fathers Believed That Faith In God Was The Key To Our Being A Good People And America's Becoming A Great Nation.

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.

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