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Our Status As A Free Society And World Power Is Not Based On Brute Strength. When We've Taken Up Arms, It Has Been For The Defense Of Freedom For Ourselves And For Other Peaceful Nations Who Needed Our Help. But Now, Faced With The Development Of Weapons With Immense Destructive Power, We've No Choice But To Maintain Ready Defense Forces That Are Second To None. Yes, The Cost Is High, But The Price Of Neglect Would Be Infinitely Higher.

-Ronald Reagan

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Our Status As A Free Society And World Power Is Not Based On Brute Strength. When We've Taken Up Arms, It Has Been For The Defense Of Freedom For Ourselves And For Other Peaceful Nations Who Needed Our Help. But Now, Faced With The Development Of Weapons With Immense Destructive Power, We've No Choice But To Maintain Ready Defense Forces That Are Second To None. Yes, The Cost Is High, But The Price Of Neglect Would Be Infinitely Higher.

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There Are No Easy Answers' But There Are Simple Answers. We Must Have The Courage To Do What We Know Is Morally Right.

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Since When Do We In America Believe That Our Society Is Made Up Of Two Diametrically Opposed Classes - One Rich, One Poor - Both In A Permanent State Of Conflict And Neither Able To Get Ahead Except At The Expense Of The Other? Since When Do We In America Accept This Alien And Discredited Theory Of Social And Class Warfare? Since When Do We In America Endorse The Politics Of Envy And Division?

If You Serve A Child A Rotten Hamburger In America, Federal, State, And Local Agencies Will Investigate You, Summon You, Close You Down, Whatever. But If You Provide A Child With A Rotten Education, Nothing Happens, Except That You're Liable To Be Given More Money To Do It With. Well, We've Discovered That Money Alone Isn't The Answer.

Without God, There Is No Virtue Because There Is No Prompting Of The Conscience... Without God, There Is A Coarsening Of The Society; Without God, Democracy Will Not And Cannot Long Endure.

A Strong Nation Is One That Is Loved By Its People And, As Edmund Burke Put It, For A Country To Be Loved It Ought To Be Lovely.

I Can't Claim To Know The Words Of All The National Anthems In The World, But I Don't Know Of Any Other That Ends With A Question And A Challenge As Ours Does: Does That Flag Still Wave O'er The Land Of The Free And The Home Of The Brave? That Is What We Must All Ask.

It Is The Tendency Of Government To Grow, For Practices And Programs To Become The Nearest Thing To Eternal Life We'll See On This Earth.

The Family Has Always Been The Cornerstone Of American Society.

American Society

If You Don't Know Whether A Body Is Alive Or Dead, You Would Never Bury It. I Think This Consideration Itself Should Be Enough For All Of Us To Insist On Protecting The Unborn.

Now Back In 1927 An American Socialist, Norman Thomas, Six Times Candidate For President On The Socialist Party Ticket, Said The American People Would Never Vote For Socialism. But He Said Under The Name Of Liberalism The American People Will Adopt Every Fragment Of The Socialist Program.

There Are Simple Answers To The Nation's Problems, But Not Easy Ones.

The Bible And Its Teachings Helped Form The Basis For The Founding Fathers' Abiding Belief In The Inalienable Rights Of The Individual, Rights Which They Found Implicit In The Bible's Teachings Of The Inherent Worth And Dignity Of Each Individual. This Same Sense Of Man Patterned The Convictions Of Those Who Framed The English System Of Law Inherited By Our Own Nation, As Well As The Ideals Set Forth In The Declaration Of Independence And The Constitution.

How Does It Feel To Be The 's Third Choice? Humiliating? You Could Have Thrown A Dart. That's How Close They Were. We Had So Many Excellent Candidates.

It Is No Coincidence That When The Thugs Tried To Wrest Control Over Grenada, There Were 30 Soviet Advisors And Hundreds Of Cuban Military And Paramilitary Forces On The Island.

What Would This Country Be Without This Great Land Of Ours.

You And I Have A Rendezvous With Destiny. We Will Preserve For Our Children This, The Last Best Hope Of Man On Earth, Or We Will Sentence Them To Take The First Step Into A Thousand Years Of Darkness. If We Fail, At Least Let Our Children And Our Children’s Children Say Of Us We Justified Our Brief Moment Here. We Did All That Could Be Done.

I Believe Now, As I Alway Have, That America's Strength Is In 'we The People.'

The Future Is Best Decided By Ballots, Not Bullets.

I Didn't Leave The Democratic Party; The Democratic Party Left Me.

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

As Long As There Are Guns, The Individual That Wants A Gun For A Crime Is Going To Have One And Going To Get It. The Only Person Who's Going To Be Penalized And Have Difficulty Is The Law-abiding Citizen, Who Then Cannot Have [it] If He Wants Protection -- The Protection Of A Weapon In His Home.

Presidents Come And Go. History Comes And Goes, But Principles Endure.

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.

With Freedom Goes Responsibility, A Responsibility That Can Only Be Met By The Individual Himself.

For Three Decades, We Have Sought To Solve The Problems Of Unemployment Through Government Planning, And The More The Plans Fail, The More The Planners Plan.

Make No Mistake, Abortion-on-demand Is Not A Right Granted By The Constitution. No Serious Scholar, Including One Disposed To Agree With The Court's Result, Has Argued That The Framers Of The Constitution Intended To Create Such A Right.

In 1939 Winston Churchill, Describing The 5000-mile Peaceful Border Dividing Canada And The United States, Said, 'that Long Frontier From The Atlantic To The Pacific Oceans, Guarded Only By Neighborly Respect And Honorable Obligations, Is An Example To Every Country And A Pattern For The Future Of The World.

If I Thought There Was Some Reason To Be Concerned About Them, I Wouldn't Be Sleeping In This House Tonight. (when Asked About Continued Presence Of Soviet Nuclear Submarines Along Us Coastlines)

Government Does Not Solve Problems; It Subsidizes Them.

In This New World Economy, National Boundaries Are Increasingly Becoming Obsolete.

[andrew Jackson] Was Actually 70 Years Old When He Left The White House

The Very Heart And Soul Of Conservatism Is Libertarianism.

Surround Yourself With The Best People You Can Find, Delegate Authority, And Don't Interfere As Long As The Policy You've Decided Upon Is Being Carried Out.

There Seems To Be An Increasing Awareness Of Something We Americans Have Known For Some Time - That The Ten Most Dangerous Words In The English Language Are "hi, I'm From The Government, And I'm Here To Help."

Since The Foundation Of The State Of Israel, The United States Has Stood By Her And Helped Her To Pursue Security, Peace, And Economic Growth. Our Friendship Is Based On Historic Moral And Strategic Ties, As Well As Our Shared Dedication To Democracy.

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