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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.

-Ronald Reagan

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Ronald Reagan

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

Let Us Ask Ourselves; "what Kind Of People Do We Think We Are?"

I Do Not Believe In A Fate That Will Fall On Us No Matter What We Do. I Do Believe In A Fate That Will Fall On Us If We Do Nothing.

I Know I'm Not In Government Anymore. In Fact I'm Out Of Work.

I Remain California-bound

We're Resolved Tonight That Young Americans Will Always See Those Potomac Lights, That They Will Always Find Here A City Of Hope In A Country That's Free So That When Other Generations Look Back At This Conservative Era In American Politics And Our Time In Power, They'll Say Of Us That We Did Hold True To That Dream Of Joseph Winthrop And Joseph Warren, That We Did Keep Faith With Our God, That We Did Act Worthy Of Ourselves, That We Did Protect And Pass On Lovingly That Shining City On A Hill.

Throughout America Today, We Honor The Dead Of Our Wars. We Recall Their Valor And Their Sacrifices. We Remember They Gave Their Lives So That Others Might Live.

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.

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

I'd Like To Harness Their Youthful Energy With A Strap.

Our Economic Assistance Must Be Carefully Targeted, And Must Make Maximum Use Of The Energy And Efforts Of The Private Sector... Economic Freedom Is The World's Mightiest Engine For Abundance And Social Justice... Developing Countries Need To Be Encouraged To Experiment With A Growing Variety Of Arrangements For Profit Sharing And Expanded Capital Ownership.

I Believe With All My Heart That Our First Priority Must Be World Peace, And That Use Of Force Is Always And Only A Last Resort, When Everything Else Has Failed, And Then Only With Regard To Our National Security.

Let Us Renew Our Faith That As Free Men And Women We Still Have The Power To Better Our Lives.

Since I Came To The White House, I Got Two Hearing Aids, A Colon Operation, Skin Cancer, A Prostate Operation, And I Was Shot. The Damn Thing Is, I've Never Felt Better In My Life.

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

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