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Our Principles Were Revolutionary. We Began As A Small, Weak Republic. But We Survived. Our Example Inspired Others, Imperfectly At Times, But It Inspired Them Nevertheless. This Constitutional Republic, Conceived In Liberty And Dedicated To The Proposition That All Men Are Created Equal, Prospered And Grew Strong. To This Day, America Is Still The Abiding Alternative To Tyranny. That Is Our Purpose In The World - Nothing More And Nothing Less.

-Ronald Reagan

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Our Principles Were Revolutionary.

Ronald Reagan

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Our Principles Were Revolutionary. We Began As A Small, Weak Republic. But We Survived. Our Example Inspired Others, Imperfectly At Times, But It Inspired Them Nevertheless. This Constitutional Republic, Conceived In Liberty And Dedicated To The Proposition That All Men Are Created Equal, Prospered And Grew Strong. To This Day, America Is Still The Abiding Alternative To Tyranny. That Is Our Purpose In The World - Nothing More And Nothing Less.

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The Current Tax Code Is A Daily Mugging.

Blondes Have The Hottest Kisses. Red-heads Are Fair-to-middling Torrid, And Brunettes Are The Frigidest Of All. It's Something To Do With Hormones, No Doubt.

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.

Some Years Ago, The Federal Government Declared War On Poverty, And Poverty Won.

I've Often Said There's Nothing Better For The Inside Of A Man Than The Outside Of A Horse.

Church And State Are, And Must Remain, Separate.

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

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

Deep Religious Beliefs Stemming From The Old And New Testaments Of The Bible Inspired Many Of The Early Settlers Of Our Country, Providing Them With The Strength, Character, Convictions, And Faith Necessary To Withstand Great Hardship And Danger In This New And Rugged Land. These Shared Beliefs Helped Forge A Sense Of Common Purpose Among The Widely Dispersed Colonies - A Sense Of Community Which Laid The Foundation For The Spirit Of Nationhood That Was To Develop In Later Decades.

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

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

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

Anybody From Any Corner Of The World Can Come To America To Live And Become An American.

If Our Planes Were Shot Down, Yes, They's Wake Me Right Away. If The Other Fellows' Were Shot Down, Why Wake Me Up?

American Politics

America Has Not Been A Story Or A Byword. That Small Community Of Pilgrims Prospered And, Driven By The Dreams And, Yes, By The Ideas Of The Founding Fathers, Went On To Become A Beacon To All The Oppressed And Poor Of The World.

A Troubled And Afflicted Mankind Looks To Us, Pleading For Us To Keep Our Rendezvous With Destiny; That We Will Uphold The Principles Of Self-reliance, Self-discipline, Morality, And - Above All - Responsible Liberty For Every Individual That We Will Become That Shining City On A Hill.

The Person Who Agrees With You 80 Percent Of The Time Is A Friend And An Ally - Not A 20 Percent Traitor.

Our Tax Policy Is Engineered By People Who View Tax As A Means Of Achieving Changes In Our Social Structure.

We Are A Nation That Has A Government-not The Other Way Around. And That Makes Us Special Among The Nations Of The Earth.

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.

We In The United States, Above All, Must Remember That Lesson, For We Were Founded As A Nation Of Openness To People Of All Beliefs. And So We Must Remain. Our Very Unity Has Been Strengthened By Our Pluralism. 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. All Are Free To Believe Or Not Believe, All Are Free To Practice A Faith Or Not, And Those Who Believe Are Free, And Should Be Free, To Speak Of And Act On Their Belief.

Freedom Is Never More Than One Generation Away From Extinction. We Didn't Pass It To Our Children In The Bloodstream. It Must Be Fought For, Protected, And Handed On For Them To Do The Same.

...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.

I've Always Believed That This Blessed Land Was Set Apart In A Special Way, That Some Divine Plan Placed This Great Continent Here Between The Oceans To Be Found By People From Every Corner Of The Earth Who Had A Special Love For Freedom And The Courage To Uproot Themselves, Leave Homeland And Friends, To Come To A Strange Land. And Coming Here They Created Something New In All The History Of Mankind-a Land Where Man Is Not Beholden To Government, Government Is Beholden To Man.

Government Is Not A Solution To Our Problem Government Is The Problem.

Abraham Lincoln Recognized That We Could Not Survive As A Free Land When Some Men Could Decide That Others Were Not Fit To Be Free And Should Therefore Be Slaves. Likewise, 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.

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

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

A People Free To Choose Will Always Choose Peace.

A Nation's Greatness Is Measured Not Just By Its Gross National Product Or Military Power, But By The Strength Of Its Devotion To The Principles And Values That Bind Its People And Define Their Character.

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