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Ours Was The First Revolution In The History Of Mankind That Truly Reversed The Course Of Government, And With Three Little Words: 'we The People.' 'we The People' Tell The Government What To Do, It Doesn't Tell Us. 'we The People' Are The Driver, The Government Is The Car. And We Decide Where It Should Go, And By What Route, And How Fast. Almost All The World's Constitutions Are Documents In Which Governments Tell The People What Their Privileges Are. Our Constitution Is A Document In Which 'we The People' Tell The Government What It Is Allowed To Do. 'we The People' Are Free.

-Ronald Reagan

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Ronald Reagan

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Ours Was The First Revolution In The History Of Mankind That Truly Reversed The Course Of Government, And With Three Little Words: 'we The People.' 'we The People' Tell The Government What To Do, It Doesn't Tell Us. 'we The People' Are The Driver, The Government Is The Car. And We Decide Where It Should Go, And By What Route, And How Fast. Almost All The World's Constitutions Are Documents In Which Governments Tell The People What Their Privileges Are. Our Constitution Is A Document In Which 'we The People' Tell The Government What It Is Allowed To Do. 'we The People' Are Free.

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New Possibilities

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Honey, I Forgot To Duck

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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.

Justice For All

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Trust The People -- That Is The Crucial Lesson Of History.

I Favor The Civil Rights Act Of 1964 And It Must Be Enforced At Gunpoint If Necessary.

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I Notice That Everbody Who Is Pro-abortion Already Has Been Born.

The Time Has Come To Turn To God And Reassert Our Trust In Him.

Spiritual Renewal

We Are Forever Indebted To Those Who Have Given Their Lives That We Might Be Free.

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Trees Cause Pollution.

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We Can't Socialize The Doctors Without Socializing The Patients.

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.

We Speak With Pride And Admiration Of That Little Band Of Americans Who Overcame Insuperable Odds To Set This Nation On Course 200 Years Ago. But Our Glory Didn't End With Them. Americans Ever Since Have Emulated Their Deeds.

When A Business Or An Individual Spends More Than It Makes, It Goes Bankrupt. When Government Does It, It Sends You The Bill. And When Government Does It For 40 Years, The Bill Comes In Two Ways: Higher Taxes And Inflation. Make No Mistake About It, Inflation Is A Tax And Not By Accident.

A Bird On A Tether, No Matter How Long The Rope, Can Always Be Pulled Back.

I've Been Told That Some Members Of Congress Disagree With My Tax Cut Proposal. Well, You Know It's Been Said That Taxation Is The Art Of Plucking Feathers Without Killing The Bird. It's Time They Realized The Bird Just Doesn't Have Any Feathers Left.

One Day We Will Spend Our Sunset Years Telling Our Children And Our Children's Children What It Was Once Like In The United States Where Men Were Free.

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

Our System Freed The Individual Genius Of Man. Released Him To Fly As High & As Far As His Own Talent & Energy Would Take Him. We Allocate Resources Not By Government. Decision But By The Millions Of Decisions Customers Make When They Go Into The Market. Place To Buy. If Something Seems Too High-priced We Buy Something Else. Thus Resources Are Steered Toward Those Things The People Want Most At The Price They Are Willing To Pay. It May Not Be A Perfect System But It's Better Than Any Other That's Ever Been Tried.

In An Ironic Sense, Karl Marx Was Right. We Are Witnessing Today A Great Revolutionary Crisis, A Crisis Where The Demands Of The Economic Order Are Conflicting Directly With Those Of The Political Order. But The Crisis Is Happening Not In The . . . West, But In The Home Of Marxism-leninism, The Soviet Union. It Is The Soviet Union That Runs Against The Tide Of History By Denying Human Freedom And Human Dignity To Its Citizens.

Freedom And The Dignity Of The Individual Have Been More Available And Assured Here Than In Any Other Place On Earth. The Price For This Freedom At Times Has Been High, But We Have Never Been Unwilling To Pay The Price.

Even Now I Wonder What I Might Have Accomplished If I'd Studied Harder

Every Year, An Average Of 9,200 Americans Are Murdered By Handguns, According To Department Of Justice Statistics. This Does Not Include Suicides Or The Tens Of Thousands Of Robberies, Rapes And Assaults Committed With Handguns. This Level Of Violence Must Be Stopped.

I Have Seen The Rise Of Fascism And Communism. Both Philosophies Glorify The Arbitrary Power Of The State... But Both Theories Fail. Both Deny Those God-given Liberties That Are The Inalienable Right Of Each Person On This Planet, Indeed, They Deny The Existence Of God.

If Not Us, Who? And If Not Now, When?

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 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.

Supporters Of This Fundamental Change In Immigration Policy Say We Need To Import More Well-educated Talent If We're To Stay Competitive. But Exactly Whose Competitiveness Are We Talking About? Not The Competitiveness Of, Say, American-born Computer Engineers. Adjusted For Inflation, Their Earnings Haven't Gone Anywhere In Years. That's In Part Because American Companies Have Been Sending So Much Of Their High-tech Work Abroad. Bringing More Foreign-born Engineers Here Under An Expanded H1-b Visa Program, Or A Point System For That Matter, Will Just Depress Wages Even Further.

Americans Are Hungering To Feel Proud And Patriotic Again.

We Will Always Remember. We Will Always Be Proud. We Will Always Be Prepared, So We Will Always Be Free.

I Believe No Challenge Is More Important To The Character Of America Than Restoring The Right To Life To All Human Beings.

Medicare Will Usher In Federal Programs That Will Invade Every Area Of Freedom As We Have Know It In This Country.

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.

We Should Measure Welfare's Success By How Many People Leave Welfare, Not By How Many Are Added.

Government Welfare

What Does An Actor Know About Politics?

Yes, Deficits Are A Problem. I've Been Saying So For More Than A Quarter Of A Century Now. But The Problem Is Not The Size Of The Deficit, It's The Size Of Government's Claim On Our Economy.

Unless And Until It Can Be Proven That An Unborn Child Is Not A Living Human Being, Can We Justify Assuming Without Proof That It Isn't? No One Has Yet Offered Such Proof; Indeed, All The Evidence Is To The Contrary.

A Recession Is When Your Neighbor Loses His Job. A Depression Is When You Lose Yours.

There Are No Limits To Growth And Human Progress When Men And Women Are Free To Follow Their Dreams.

Our Liberty Springs From And Depends Upon An Abiding Faith In God.

When We Speak Of Peace, We Should Not Mean Just The Absence Of War. True Peace Rests On The Pillars Of Individual Freedom, Human Rights, National Self-determination, And Respect For The Rule Of Law.

Together, We'll Build A Far Better Future For America -- A Future Of Growth, Opportunity, And Security, Anchored By The Values Of A People Who Are Confident, Compassionate, And Whose Heart Is Good.

You Know, It Was Only A Generation Ago That Actors Couldn't Be Buried In The Churchyard.

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.

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

If We Listen To Our Hearts, Believe In Ourselves, And Pull Together, Nothing Can Stand In Our Way.

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