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The Preservation Of Parks, Wilderness, And Wildlife Has Also Aided Liberty By Keeping Alive The 19th Century Sense Of Adventure And Awe With Which Our Forefathers Greeted The American West. Many Laws Protecting Environmental Quality Have Promoted Liberty By Securing Property Against The Destructive Trespass Of Pollution. In Our Own Time, The Nearly Universal Appreciation Of These Preserved Landscapes, Restored Waters, And Cleaner Air Through Outdoor Recreation Is A Modern Expression Of Our Freedom And Leisure To Enjoy The Wonderful Life That Generations Past Have Built For Us.

-Ronald Reagan

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The Preservation Of Parks,

Ronald Reagan

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The Preservation Of Parks, Wilderness, And Wildlife Has Also Aided Liberty By Keeping Alive The 19th Century Sense Of Adventure And Awe With Which Our Forefathers Greeted The American West. Many Laws Protecting Environmental Quality Have Promoted Liberty By Securing Property Against The Destructive Trespass Of Pollution. In Our Own Time, The Nearly Universal Appreciation Of These Preserved Landscapes, Restored Waters, And Cleaner Air Through Outdoor Recreation Is A Modern Expression Of Our Freedom And Leisure To Enjoy The Wonderful Life That Generations Past Have Built For Us.

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Perhaps We Need Some Outside, Universal Threat To Make Us Recognize This Common Bond. I Occasionally Think How Quickly Our Differences Worldwide Would Vanish If We Were Facing An Alien Threat From Outside This World.

The Vote On The Peacekeeper Is Also A Vote On Geneva. Rejecting The Peacekeeper Will Knock The Legs Out From Under The Negotiating Table. (on Importance Of The Mx Missile)

I Sometimes Think Adam And Eve Were Russians. They Didn't Have A Roof Over Their Head, Nothing To Wear, But They Had One Apple Between Them And They Thought That Was Paradise.

Middle Age Is When You're Faced With Two Temptations And You Choose The One That Will Get You Home By Nine O'clock.

Once People Who Have Been Deprived Of Basic Freedom Taste A Little Of It, They Want All Of It.

The American People Aren't Overtaxed. The Government In Washington Is Overfed. The Main Difference Between Ourselves And The Other Side Is: We See An America Where Every Day Is The Fourth Of July. They See An America Where Every Day Is April 15.

More Than Any Gift Or Toy, Ornament Of Tree, Let Us Resolve That This Christmas Shall Be, Like That First Christmas, A Celebration Of Interior Treasures.

The Democrats Say That The United States Has Had Its Days In The Sun, That Our Nation Has Passed Its Zenith. They Expect You To Tell Your Children That The American People No Longer Have The Will To Cope With Their Problems, That The Future Will Be One Of Sacrifice And Few Opportunities. My Fellow Citizens, I Utterly Reject That View.

The Glory Of This Land Has Been Its Capacity For Transcending The Moral Evils Of Our Past. For Example, The Long Struggle Of Minority Citizens For Equal Rights, Once A Source Of Disunity And Civil War, Is Now A Point Of Pride For All Americans. We Must Never Go Back. There Is No Room For Racism, Anti-semitism, Or Other Forms Of Ethnic And Racial Hatred In This Country.

Revenues Should Be Increased Not By Increasing The Tax Rates On The Individual But By Building A Bigger Economy For Everybody.

God's Miracles Are To Be Found In Nature Itself; The Wind And Waves, The Wood That Becomes A Tree - All Of These Are Explained Biologically, But Behind Them Is The Hand Of God.

If Politics Were A Musical, It Would Be "promises, Promises".

Our Nation Will Prosper Or Decline In Direct Proportion To Our Selection Of Leaders Who Are Guided By The Holy Spirit. If We Fail To Select Godly Leaders Our Destiny Will Surely Be As That Of The Roman Empire.

They Don't Worship At The Altar Of Forced Busing And Mandatory Quotas. They Don't Believe You Can Remedy Past Discrimination By Mandating New Discrimination. (defending His Nominees For Civil Rights Commission)

Alec Has Forged A Unique Partnership Between State Legislators And Leaders From The Corporate And Business Community. This Partnership Offers Businessmen The Extraordinary Opportunity To Apply Their Talents To Solve America's Problems And Build On Our Opportunities.

Someone Must Stand Up To Those Who Say, "here's The Key, There's The Treasury, Just Take As Many Of Those Hard-earned Tax Dollars As You Want."

I Oppose Registration For The Draft... Because I Believe The Security Of Freedom Can Best Be Achieved By Security Through Freedom.

...i Believe That It Is Not Enough, As I Said, To Tinker At The Margins Of U.s. Immigration Law... The United States Must Institute Comprehensive Reforms That Conform To The Realities Of The Era In Which We Live.

Without God, Democracy Will Not And Cannot Long Endure.

Abraham Lincoln Freed The Black Man. In Many Ways, Dr. King Freed The White Man. How Did He Accomplish This Tremendous Feat? Where Others - White And Black - Preached Hatred, He Taught The Principles Of Love And Nonviolence.

We Must Remove Government's Smothering Hand From Where It Does Harm; We Must Seek To Revitalize The Proper Functions Of Government. We Do These Things To Set Loose Again The Energy And The Ingenuity Of The American People. We Do These Things To Reinvigorate Those Social And Economic Institutions Which Serve As A Buffer And A Bridge Between The Individual And The State - And Which Remain The Real Source Of Our Progress As A People.

Please Assure Me That You Are All Republicans.

I'll Be Like Scarlett O'hara-i'll Think About It Tomorrow.

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.

Our Liberties, Our Values, All For Which America Stands Is Safe Today Because Brave Men And Women Have Been Ready To Face The Fire At Freedom's Front. And We Thank God For Them.

There Were So Many Candidates On The Platform That There Were Not Enough Promises To Go Around.

I Want To Talk About Political And Economic Fairy Tales.

You Can't Be For Big Government, Big Taxes And Big Bureaucracy And Still Be For The Little Guy.

It Doesn't Require Expropriation Or Confiscation Of Private Property Or Business To Impose Socialism On A People. What Does It Mean Whether You Hold The Deed Or The Title To Your Business Or Property If The Government Holds The Power Of Life And Death Over That Business Or Property?

I Do Not Want To Go Back To The Past; I Want To Go Back To The Past Way Of Facing The Future.

I've Often Wondered, What If All Of Us In The World Discovered That We Were Threatened By An Outer -- A Power From Outer Space, From Another Planet. Wouldn't We All Of A Sudden Find That We Didn't Have Any Differences Between Us At All, We Were All Human Beings, Citizens Of The World, And Wouldn't We Come Together To Fight That Particular Threat?

God...should Never Have Been Expelled From America's Schools. As We Struggle To Teach Our Children...we Dare Not Forget That Our Civilization Was Built By Men And Women Who Placed Their Faith In A Loving God. If Congress Can Begin Each Day With A Moment Of Prayer...so Then Can Our Sons And Daughters.

Money Can't Buy Happiness, But It Will Certainly Get You A Better Class Of Memories.

The Thought Of Being President Frightens Me And I Do Not Think I Want The Job.

We Have To Realize That This Country In Its Private Sector Has Been Fighting The Most Successful War On Poverty The World Has Seen For The Last 200 Years.

The Problem Is Not That People Are Taxed Too Little, The Problem Is That Government Spends Too Much.

The Federal Government Did Not Create The States; The States Created The Federal Government.

Federal Government

When Government Gets Too Big, Freedom Is Lost. Government Is Supposed To Be The Servant. But When A Government Can Tax The People With No Limit Or Restraint On What The Government Can Take, Then The Government Has Become The Master.

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.

There Is A Fundamental Difference Between Separation Of Church And State And Denying The Spiritual Heritage Of This Country. Inscribed On The Jefferson Memorial In Washington, D.c. Are Jefferson's Words, 'the God Who Gave Us Life Gave Us Liberty -- Can The Liberties Of A Nation Be Secure When We Have Removed A Conviction That These Liberties Are The Gift Of God?'

By Outlawing Solidarity, A Free Trade Organization To Which An Overwhelming Majority Of Polish Workers And Farmers Belong, They Have Made It Clear That They Never Had Any Intention Of Restoring One Of The Most Elemental Human Rights The Right To Belong To A Free Trade Union.

My Dream Is That You Will Travel The Road Ahead With Liberty's Lamp Guiding Your Steps And Opportunity's Arm Steadying Your Way.

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