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Shouldn't Someone Tag Mr. Kennedy's Bold New Imaginative Program With Its Proper Age? Under The Tousled Boyish Haircut Is Still Old Karl Marx - First Launched A Century Ago. There Is Nothing New In The Idea Of A Government Being Big Brother.

-Ronald Reagan

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Shouldn't Someone Tag Mr. Kennedy's Bold New Imaginative Program With Its Proper Age? Under The Tousled Boyish Haircut Is Still Old Karl Marx - First Launched A Century Ago. There Is Nothing New In The Idea Of A Government Being Big Brother.

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We Were Poor When I Was Young But The Difference Was That The Government Didn't Come Around Telling You You Were Poor.

You Hear A Lot Of Jokes Every Once In A While About 'silent Cal Coolidge.' The Joke Is On The People Who Make The Jokes. Look At His Record. He Cut The Taxes Four Times. We Had Probably The Greatest Growth And Prosperity That We've Ever Known. I Have Taken Heed Of That Because If He Did That By Doing Nothing, Maybe That's The Answer.

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They Don't Subscribe To Our Sense Of Morality; They Don't Believe In An Afterlife; They Don't Believe In A God Or Religion. And The Only Morality They Recognize, Therefore, Is What Will Advance The Cause Or Socialism.

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.

The Federal Reserve Is Answerable To No One.

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We're Not Just Discussing Limits On A Further Increase Of Nuclear Weapons; We Seek, Instead, To Reduce Their Number. We Seek The Total Elimination One Day Of Nuclear Weapons From The Face Of The Earth.

I've Long Believed That 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 A Corporation. Thomas Jefferson Dreamed Of A Land Of Small Farmers, Of Shopowners, And Merchants. Abraham Lincoln Signed Into Law The Homestead Act That Ensured That The Great Western Prairies Of America Would Be The Realm Of Independent, Propertyowning Citizens-a Mightier Guarantee Of Freedom Is Difficult To Imagine.

The Closest Thing To Eternal Life On Earth Is A Government Program

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.

Small Business Is The Gateway To Opportunity For Those Who Want A Piece Of The American Dream... Well, Wouldn't It Be Nice To Hear A Little More About The Forgotten Heroes Of America - Those Who Create Most Of Our New Jobs, Like The Owners Of Stores Down The Street; The Faithfuls Who Support Our Churches, Synagogues, Schools, And Communities; The Brave Men And Women Everywhere Who Produce Our Goods, Feed A Hungry World, And Keep Our Families Warm While They Invest In The Future To Build A Better America? That's Where Miracles Are Made, Not In Washington, D.c.

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

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Cold, Hungry, Scared As Hell Inside, But Too Damn Brave To Admit It.

God, The Source Of Our Knowledge, Has Been Expelled From The Classroom. He Gives Us His Greatest Blessing, Life, And Yet Many Would Condone The Taking Of Innocent Life. We Expect Him To Protect Us In A Crisis, But Turn Away From Him Too Often In Our Day-to-day Living. I Wonder If He Isn't Waiting For Us To Wake Up.

If We Don't Want To See The Map Of Central America Covered In A Sea Of Red, Eventually Lapping At Our Own Borders, We Must Act Now.

For One, We Very Much Need In Any Immigration Bill - We Need Protection For People Who Are In This Country And Who Have Not Become Citizens, For Example, That They Are Protected And Legitimized And Given Permanent Residency Here. And We Want To See Some Things Of That Kind Added To The Immigration Bill.

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I Sometimes Think If Someone Appealed The Ten Commandments To Some Of Our Courts, They Would Rule - 'thou Shalt Not, Unless You Feel Strongly To The Contrary'.

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There Are No Words To Express The Extraordinary Strength And Character Of This Breed Of People We Call American. They Are The Kind Of Men And Women Tom Paine Had In Mind When He Wrote, During The Darkest Days Of The American Revolution, We Have It In Our Power To Begin The World Over Again.

Nations Do Not Distrust Each Other Because They Are Armed. They Are Armed Because They Distrust Each Other.

The True Lesson Of The Vietnam War Is: Certainty Of Purpose And Ruthlessness Of Execution Win Wars.

The Federalist Society Is Changing The Culture Of Our Nation's Law Schools. You Are Returning The Values And Concepts Of Law As Our Founders Understood Them To Scholarly Dialogue, And Through That Dialogue, To Our Legal Institutions.

Today, We're Taking A Break From The Concerns And The Bustle Of The Work-a-day World. But We're Also Making A New Beginning... Let Us Renew Our Faith That As Free Men And Women We Still Have The Power To Better Our Lives, And Let Us Resolve To Face The Challenges Of The New Year Holding That Conviction Firmly In Our Hearts. That, After All, Is Our Greatest Strength And Our Greatest Gift As Americans.

Law And Freedom Must Be Indivisible Partners. For Without Law, There Can Be No Freedom, Only Choas And Disorder; And Without Freedom, Law Is But A Cynical Veneer For Injustice And Oppression.

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.

So In Your Discussions Of The Nuclear Freeze Proposals, I Urge You To Beware The Temptation Of Pride - The Temptation Blithely To Declare Yourselves Above It All And Label Both Sides Equally At Fault, To Ignore The Facts Of History And The Aggressive Impulses Of An Evil Empire, To Simply Call The Arms Race A Giant Misunderstanding And Thereby Remove Yourself From The Struggle Between Right And Wrong, Good And Evil.

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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.

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Our Natural, Inalienable Rights Are Now Considered To Be A Dispensation From Government, And Freedom Has Never Been So Fragile, So Close To Slipping From Our Grasp As It Is At This Moment.

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America Is The Moral Force That Defeated Communism And All Those Who Would Put The Human Soul Itself Into Bondage.

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Our National Motto - 'in God We Trust' - Was Not Chosen Lightly. It Reflects A Basic Recognition That There Is A Divine Authority In The Universe To Which This Nation Owes Homage.

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Everywhere We Go, Nancy Makes The World A Little Better.

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We Cannot Escape Our Destiny, Nor Should We Try To Do So. The Leadership Of The Free World Was Thrust Upon Us Two Centuries Ago In That Little Hall Of Philadelphia. In The Days Following World War Ii, When The Economic Strength And Power Of America Was All That Stood Between The World And The Return To The Dark Ages, Pope Pius Xii Said, 'the American People Have A Great Genius For Splendid And Unselfish Actions. Into The Hands Of America God Has Placed The Destinies Of An Afflicted Mankind.' We Are Indeed, And We Are Today, The Last Best Hope Of Man On Earth.

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If History Teaches Anything, It Teaches That Self-delusion In The Face Of Unpleasant Facts Is Folly.

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

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Entrepreneurs Are The Forgotten Heroes Of America.

It Was The Hard Work Of Our People, The Freedom They Enjoyed And Their Faith In God That Built This Country And Made It The Envy Of The World. In All Of Our Great Cities And Towns Evidence Of The Faith Of Our People Is Found: Houses Of Worship Of Every Denomination Are Among The Oldest Structures. While Never Willing To Bow To A Tyrant, Our Forefathers Were Always Willing To Get To Their Knees Before God. When Catastrophe Threatened, They Turned To God For Deliverance. When The Harvest Was Bountiful The First Thought Was Thanksgiving To God.

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

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There Is A Limit To What You Can Do In Politics.

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I Never Thought It Was My Style Or The Words I Used That Made A Difference. It Was The Content. I Wasn't A Great Communicator, But I Communicated Great Things.

This Administration Is Totally Colorblind.

When Plo Sniper Fire Is Followed By 14 Hours Of Israeli Bombardment, That's Stretching The Definition Of Defensive Action Too Far.

How Do You Tell A Communist? Well, It's Someone Who Reads Marx And Lenin. And How Do You Tell An Anti-communist? It's Someone Who Understands Marx And Lenin.

A Drastic Reduction In The Deficit...will Take Place In The Fiscal Year '82.

Facts Are Stupid Things Stubborn Things, I Should Say.

Above All, We Must Realize That No Arsenal, Or No Weapon In The Arsenals Of The World, Is So Formidable As The Will And Moral Courage Of Free Men And Women. It Is A Weapon Our Adversaries In Today's World Do Not Have.

One Of The Traditional Methods Of Imposing Statism Or Socialism Has Been By Way Of Medicine....if You Don't Do This, One Of These Days You And I Are Going To Spend Our Sunset Years Telling Our Children And Our Children's Children What It Was Like In American When Men Were Free.

And How Stands The City On This Winter Night? More Prosperous, More Secure, And Happier Than It Was 8 Years Ago. But More Than That: After 200 Years, Two Centuries, She Still Stands Strong And True On The Granite Ridge, And Her Glow Has Held Steady No Matter What Storm. And She's Still A Beacon, Still A Magnet For All Who Must Have Freedom, For All The Pilgrims From All The Lost Places Who Are Hurtling Through The Darkness, Toward Home.

If You've Seen One Redwood, You've Seen Them All.

He Struck A Mighty Blow For Equality, Freedom And The American Way Of Life. Jackie Robinson Was A Good Citizen, A Great Man, And A True American Champion.

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.

[our Goal] Is To Help Revive America's Traditional Values: Faith, Family, Neighborhood, Work And Freedom. Government Has No Business Enforcing These Values But Neither Must It Seek, As It Did In The Recent Past, To Suppress Or Replace Them. That Only Robbed Us Of Our Tiller And Set Us Adrift. Helping To Restore These Values Will Bring New Strength, Direction And Dignity To Our Lives And To The Life Of Our Nation. It's On These Values That We'll Best Build Our Future.

It's Not That Liberals Aren't Smart, It's Just That So Much Of What They Know Isn't So

All The Waste In A Year From A Nuclear Power Plant Can Be Stored Under A Desk.

In Case Anybody Asks You About My Position On Capital Punishment, You Can Tell Them I Favor It; And If They Want To Know Why, You Can Tell Them This Story.

Evil Is Powerless If The Good Are Unafraid.

Trains Are Not Any More Energy Efficient Than The Average Automobile, With Both Getting About 48 Passenger Miles To The Gallon.

We Can't Help Everyone, But Everyone Can Help Someone.

I Spoke To Ears That Refused To Hear.

Government Exists To Protect Us From Each Other. Where Government Has Gone Beyond Its Limits Is In Deciding To Protect Us From Ourselves.

We Developed At The Local School District Level Probably The Best Public School System In The World. Or It Was Until The Federal Government Added Federal Interference To Federal Financial Aid And Eroded Educational Quality In The Process.

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.

Have We The Courage And The Will To Face Up To The Immorality And Discrimination Of The Progressive Tax, And Demand A Return To Traditional Proportionate Taxation? ... Today In Our Country The Tax Collector's Share Is 37 Cents Of Every Dollar Earned. Freedom Has Never Been So Fragile, So Close To Slipping From Our Grasp.

Work And Family Are At The Center Of Our Lives, The Foundation Of Our Dignity As A Free People.

The Time Has Come To Match Outgo To Income, Instead Of Always Doing It The Other Way Around.

Everyone Is A Liberal Until They Have Something To Conserve. Then They Become A Conservative.

If We Love Our Country, We Should Also Love Our Countrymen.

We Have So Many People Who Can't See A Fat Man Standing Beside A Thin One Without Coming To The Conclusion That The Fat Man Got That Way By Taking Advantage Of The Thin One!

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

To This Day, America Is Still The Abiding Alternative To Tyranny. This Is Our Purpose In The World, Nothing More And Nothing Less.

Our Leaders Must Remember That Education Doesn't Begin With Some Isolated Bureaucrat In Washington. It Doesn't Even Begin With State Or Local Officials. Education Begins In The Home, Where It Is A Parental Right And Responsibility.

Never Let The Things You Can't Do, Stop You From Doing What You Can.

For Too Long, The Victims Of Crime Have Been The Forgotten Persons Of Our Criminal Justice System.

An Actor Knows Two Important Things - To Be Honest In What He Is Doing And To Be In Touch With The Audience. That's Not Bad Advice For A Politician Either.

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

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Americans Are Hungering To Feel Proud And Patriotic Again.

Church And State Are, And Must Remain, Separate.

Government Should Uphold-and Not Undermine-those Institutions Which Are Custodians Of The Very Values Upon Which Civilization Is Founded: Religion, Education And, Above All, Family.

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.

Accepting A Government Grant With Its Accompanying Rules Is Like Marrying A Girl And Finding Out Her Entire Family Is Moving In With You Before The Honeymoon.

It's Said That Prayer Can Move Mountains. Well, It's Certainly Moved The Hearts And Minds Of Americans In Their Times Of Trial And Helped Them To Achieve A Society That, For All Its Imperfections, Is Still The Envy Of The World And The Last, Best Hope Of Mankind.

Extreme Taxation, Excessive Controls, Oppressive Government Competition With Business, Frustrated Minorities And Forgotten Americans Are Not The Products Of Free Enterprise. They Are The Residue Of Centralized Bureaucracy, Of Government By A Self-anointed Elite.

The Future Belongs To The Free.

The War In Vietnam Threatened To Tear Our Society Apart, And The Political And Philosophical Disagreements That Separated Each Side Continue, To Some Extent. It's Been Said That These Memorials Reflect A Hunger For Healing.

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

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

What If Free People Could Live Secure In The Knowledge That Their Security Did Not Rest Upon The Threat Of Instant U.s. Retaliation To Deter A Soviet Attack, That We Could Intercept And Destroy Strategic Ballistic Missiles Before They Reached Our Own Soil Or That Of Our Allies?

Freedom Prospers When Religion Is Vibrant And The Rule Of Law Under God Is Acknowledged.

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.

We Should Never Fear To Negotiate, Nor Negotiate From Fear.

At The Root Of Everything That We’re Trying To Accomplish Is The Belief That America Has A Mission. We Are A Nation Of Freedom, Living Under God, Believing All Citizens Must Have The Opportunity To Grow, Create Wealth, And Build A Better Life For Those Who Follow. If We Live Up To Those Moral Values, We Can Keep The American Dream Alive For Our Children And Our Grandchildren, And America Will Remain Mankind’s Best Hope.

No Government Ever Voluntarily Reduces Itself In Size.

America Is To Great To Dream Small Dreams.

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.

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

I Believe Moses Was 80 When God First Commissioned Him For Public Service.

Simple Fairness Dictates That Government Must Not Raise Taxes On Families Struggling To Pay Their Bills.

Someday, The Realm Of Liberty And Justice Will Encompass The Planet. Freedom Is Not Just The Birthright Of The Few, It Is The God-given Right Of All His Children, In Every Country. It Won't Come By Conquest. It Will Come, Because Freedom Is Right And Freedom Works. It Will Come, Because Cooperation And Good Will Among Free People Will Carry The Day.

I, For One, Resent It When A Representative Of The People Refers To You And Me, The Free Men And Women Of This Country, As 'the Masses.'

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

We Have Consistently Supported A Legalization Program Which Is Both Generous To The Alien And Fair To The Countless Thousands Of People Throughout The World Who Seek Legally To Come To America. The Legalization Provisions In This Act Will Go Far To Improve The Lives Of A Class Of Individuals Who Now Must Hide In The Shadows, Without Access To Many Of The Benefits Of A Free And Open Society. Very Soon Many Of These Men And Women Will Be Able To Step Into The Sunlight And, Ultimately, If They Choose, They May Become Americans.

Well, I Would - If They Realized That We - Again If - If We Led Them Back To That Stalemate Only Because Our Retaliatory Power, Our Seconds, Or Strike At Them After Our First Strike, Would Be So Destructive They They Couldn't Afford It, That Would Hold Them Off.

Unless Bureaucracy Is Constantly Resisted, It Breaks Down Representative Government And Overwhelms Democracy.

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

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

Die-hard Conservatives Thought That If I Couldn't Get Everything I Asked For, I Should Jump Off The Cliff With The Flag Flying-go Down In Flames. No, If I Can Get 70 Or 80 Percent Of What It Is I'm Trying To Get ... I'll Take That And Then Continue To Try To Get The Rest In The Future.

Free Enterprise Has Done More To Reduce Poverty Than All The Government Programs Dreamed Up By Democrats.

We Seek A Constitutional Amendment To Permit Voluntary School Prayer. God Should Never Have Been Expelled From America's Classrooms In The First Place.

Preservation Of Our Environment Is Not A Liberal Or Conservative Challenge, It's Common Sense.

A Stronger Defense Is An Investment In Peace.

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.

Only When The Human Spirit Is Allowed To Invent And Create, Only When Individuals Are Given A Personal Stake In Deciding Economic Policies And Benefiting From Their Success - Only Then Can Societies Remain Economically Alive, Dynamic, Prosperous, Progressive And Free.

With The Right To Bear Arms Comes A Great Responsibility To Use Caution And Common Sense On Handgun Purchases.

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