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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.

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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.

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There You Go Again. When I Opposed Medicare, There Was Another Piece Of Legislation Meeting The Same Problem Before The Congress. I Happened To Favor The Other Piece Of Legislation And Thought That It Would Be Better For The Senior Citizens To Provide Better Care Than The One That Was Finally Passed.

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Nuclear Missiles

Tyranny, Like Fog In The Well Known Poem, Often Creeps In Silently 'on Little Cat Feet.'

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We're Americans, And We Have A Rendezvous With Destiny . . . No People Who Have Ever Lived On This Earth Have Fought Harder, Paid A Higher Price For Freedom, Or Done More To Advance The Dignity Of Man Than Americans.

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

You Can't Be For Big Government, Big Taxes And Big Bureaucracy And Still Be For The Little Guy.

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

Those Who Advocate More And More Government Regulation Have Been Experimenting For 40 Years, Trying To Create An Economic System In Which Everyone Can Somehow Be Made More Prosperous By The Toil Of Someone Else.

Money Can't Buy Happiness, But It Will Certainly Get You A Better Class Of Memories.

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.

Where Free Unions And Collective Bargaining Are Forbidden, Freedom Is Lost.

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.

Freedom Is Indivisible - There Is No "s" On The End Of It. You Can Erode Freedom, Diminish It, But You Cannot Divide It And Choose To Keep "some Freedoms" While Giving Up Others.

During My First Press Conference As President, In Answer To A Direct Question, I Pointed Out That, As Good Marxist-leninists, The Soviet Leaders Have Openly And Publicly Declared That The Only Morality They Recognize Is That Which Will Further Their Cause, Which Is World Revolution.

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

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

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

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 Remain California-bound

Professional Politicians Like To Talk About The Value Of Experience In Government. Nuts! The Only Experience You Gain In Politics Is How To Be Political.

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

Anyone That's Ever Had Their Kitchen Done Over Knows That It Never Never Gets Done As Soon As You Wish It Would.

... A Faceless Mass, Waiting For Handouts.

One Of The Traditional Methods Of Imposing Statism Or Socialism On A People Has Been By Way Of Medicine. It’s Very Easy To Disguise A Medical Program As A Humanitarian Project, Most People Are A Little Reluctant To Oppose Anything That Suggests Medical Care For People Who Possibly Can’t Afford It.

I Believe The Best Social Program Is A Job.

We Can Have Peace And Brotherly Love By Accepting Our Responsibility To Preserve Freedom.

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)

Why Should The Government Subsidize Intellectual Curiosity?

The Family Has Always Been The Cornerstone Of American Society.

American Society

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.

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.

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

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

My Golf-loving Friend Bob Hope Asked Me What My Handicap Was, So I Told Him - The Congress.

This Is A Matter Of Vital Importance To The Public Safety ... While We Recognize That Assault-weapon Legislation Will Not Stop All Assault-weapon Crime, Statistics Prove That We Can Dry Up The Supply Of These Guns, Making Them Less Accessible To Criminals.

Assault Weapons

I Just Don't Think It's Good For Us To Be Run Out Of Town. (refusing To Cancel Secretary Of State Visit To Moscow)

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.

In 1992, The Federal Government Actually Issued More Work Authorizations To Immigrants And Temporary Foreign Workers Than The Net Number Of New Jobs Created By Our Economy. Something Is Fundamentally Wrong When We Have Millions Of American Citizens And Legal Residents Begging For Jobs, And Yet We Are Admitting Thousands And Thousands Of Immigrants A Year With Virtually No Consideration To Our Employment Needs Or Their Employment Skills.

Today A Newcomer To The State Is Automatically Eligible For Our Many Aid Programs The Moment He Crosses The Border.

What's Happening In Cuba Is Not A Failure Of The Cuban People. It's A Failure Of Fidel Castro And The Communists.

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.

Throughout Our History, We Americans Have Been Willing To Meet Great Challenges And Do What Is Right When Our Destiny Demanded It.

The [carter] Administration Doesn't Know The Difference Between A Diplomat And A Doormat.

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

I'm No Linguist, But I Have Been Told That In The Russian Language, There Isn't Even A Word For Freedom.

Russian Language

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.

Life Involves Effort And Growth. You Won't Grow By Watching A Situation Comedy, Though You Can Grow By Reading A Book. I Hope We Aren't Becoming A Nation Of Watchers, Because What Made Us Great Is That We've Always Been A Nation Of Doers.

For A Time, We Forgot The American Dream Isn't One Of Making Government Bigger, It's Keeping Faith With The Mighty Spirit Of Free People Under God

People Who Think A Tax Boost Will Cure Inflation Are The Same Ones Who Believe Another Drink Will Cure A Hangover.

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.

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.

Form And Substance Are Opposite Ends Of The Same Coin.

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

Intelligence Reports Say Castro Is Very Worried About Me. I'm Very Worried That We Can't Come Up With Something To Justify His Worrying.

The Wpa Was One Of The Most Productive Elements Of Fdr's Alphabet Soup Of Agencies Because It Put People To Work Building Roads, Bridges, And Other Projects... It Gave Men And Women A Chance To Make Some Money Along With The Satisfaction Of Knowing They Earned It.

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

One Way To Make Sure Crime Doesn't Pay Would Be To Let The Government Run It.

State Problems Should Involve State Solutions.

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.

We Meant To Change A Nation, And Instead, We Changed A World.

Entrepreneurs Are The Forgotten Heroes Of America.

You Know, By The Time You Reach My Age, You've Made Plenty Of Mistakes If You've Lived Your Life Properly.

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.

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.

America Was Founded By People Who Believe That God Is Their Rock Of Safety.

My Fellow Americans, I Am Pleased To Tell You I Just Signed Legislation Which Outlaws Russia Forever. The Bombing Begins In Five Minutes.

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

Government Can And Must Provide Opportunity, Not Smother It; Foster Productivity; Not Stifle It.

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.

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

A Nation Without Borders Is No Nation At All.

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.

For The Sake Of Peace And Justice, Let Us Move Toward A World In Which All People Are At Last Free To Determine Their Own Destiny.

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.

When I Took The Oath Of Office, I Pledged Loyalty To Only One Special Interest Group - ‘we The People’.

The Very Heart And Soul Of Conservatism Is Libertarianism.

As Two Proud And Independent Peoples, There Is Much That Distinguishes Us One From The Other, But There Is Also Much That We Share: A Vast Continent, With Its Common Hardships And Uncommon Duties; Generations Of Mutual Respect And Support, And An Abiding Friendship That Grows Ever Stronger.

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