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The Time Has Come To Turn To God And Reassert Our Trust In Him For The Healing Of America - Our Country Is In Need Of And Ready For A Spiritual Renewal.

-Ronald Reagan

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The Time Has Come To Turn To God And Reassert Our Trust In Him For The Healing Of America - Our Country Is In Need Of And Ready For A Spiritual Renewal.

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There You Go Again. When I Opposed Medicare, There Was Another Piece Of Legislation Meeting The Same Problem Before The Congress. I Happened To Favor The Other Piece Of Legislation And Thought That It Would Be Better For The Senior Citizens To Provide Better Care Than The One That Was Finally Passed.

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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.

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

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

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

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Church And State Are, And Must Remain, Separate.

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There Are Worse Things To Be Called Than A Dreamer.

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."

There Is No Limit To The Amount Of Good You Can Do If You Don't Care Who Gets The Credit.

Rewards And Recognition

In Israel, Free Men And Women Are Every Day Demonstrating The Power Of Courage And Faith. Back In 1948 When Isreal Was Founded, Pundits Claimed The New Country Could Never Survive. Today, No One Questions That. Israel Is A Land Of Stability And Democracy In A Region Of Tyranny And Unrest.

I Once Played A Sheriff Who Thought He Could Do The Job Without A Gun. I Was Dead In Twenty-seven Minutes Of A Thirty Minute Show.

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The First Amendment Of The Constitution Was Not Written To Protect The People From Religion; That Amendment Was Written To Protect Religion From Government Tyranny. . . But Now We're Told Our Children Have No Right To Pray In School. Nonsense. The Pendulum Has Swung Too Far Toward Intolerance Against Genuine Religious Freedom. It Is Time To Redress The Balance.

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It's All Part Of Taking A Chance And Expanding Man's Horizons. The Future Doesn't Belong To The Fainthearted; It Belongs To The Brave.

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

Those Who Say That We're In A Time When There Are No Heroes, They Just Don't Know Where To Look.

State Problems Should Involve State Solutions.

We The People Tell The Government What To Do, It Doesn't Tell Us.

The Victims Of Crime Have Been Transformed Into A Group Oppressively Burdened By A System Designed To Protect Them.

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?

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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.

I Want To Talk About Political And Economic Fairy Tales.

All Of Us Can See What Happens Once You Establish The Precedent That The Government Can Determine A Man's Working Place And His Working Methods, Determine His Employment. From Here It's A Short Step To All The Rest Of Socialism, To Determining His Pay....he Will Wait For The Government To Tell Him Where He Will Go To Work And What He Will Do.

The . . . Inescapable Truth Is: Government Does Not Have All The Answers. In Too Many Instances, Government Does Not Solve Problems; It Subsidizes Them.

For An America Of Wisdom That Honors The Family, Knowing That If The Family Goes, So Goes Our Civilization.

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.

America Has Begun A Spiritual Reawakening. Faith And Hope Are Being Restored. Americans Are Turning Back To God. Church Attendance Is Up. Audiences For Religious Books And Broadcasts Are Growing. And I Do Believe That He Has Begun To Heal Our Blessed Land.

...100% Of What Is Collected Is Absorbed Solely By Interest On The Federal Debt...all Individual Income Tax Revenues Are Gone Before One Nickel Is Spent On The Services Taxpayers Expect From Government.

Certain Forms Of Ammunition Have No Legitimate Sporting, Recreational, Or Self-defense Use And Thus Should Be Prohibited.

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.

Permanent Brain Damage Is One Of The Inevitable Results Of The Use Of Marijuana.

The United States Remains The Last Best Hope For A Mankind Plagued By Tyranny And Deprivation. America Is No Stronger Than Its People -- And That Means You And Me. Well, I Believe In You, And I Believe That If We Work Together, Then One Day We Will Say, "we Fought The Good Fight. We Finished The Race. We Kept The Faith." And To Our Children And Our Children's Children, We Can Say, "we Did All What Could Be Done In The Brief Time That Was Given Us Here On Earth.".

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

I Won't Hold My Opponent's Youth And Inexperience Against Him.

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

Government Steals From The Needy And Gives To The Greedy

Will You Resist The Temptation To Get A Government Handout For Your Community? Realize That The Doctor's Fight Against Socialized Medicine Is Your Fight. We Can't Socialize The Doctors Without Socializing The Patients. Recognize That Government Invasion Of Public Power Is Eventually An Assault Upon Your Own Business.

It Doesn't Do Any Good To Hold The Door Open For Someone If They Don't Have A Way To Walk Through It. And If They Do Have A Way To Pass Through It Then You Probably Don't Need To Hold It Open Because They Can Open It For Themselves.

When Those Who Are Governed Do Too Little, Those Who Govern Can - And Often Will - Do Too Much.

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

If The Soviet Union Let Another Political Party Come Into Existence, They Would Still Be A One-party State, Because Everybody Would Join The Other Party.

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.

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.

We Now Know That Inflation Results From All That Deficit Spending.

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

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?'

Protecting The Rights Of Even The Least Individual Among Us Is Basically The Only Excuse The Government Has For Even Existing.

The Best Social Program Is A Productive Job For Anyone Who's Willing To Work.

There Are No Great Limits To Growth Because There Are No Limits Of Human Intelligence, Imagination, And Wonder.

Intelligence Services

We Are Going To Put An End To The Notion That The American Taxpayer Exists To Fund The Federal Government.

Balancing Your Budget Is Like Protecting Your Virtue. You Have To Learn When To Say No.

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

Facts Are Stupid Things Stubborn Things, I Should Say.

I Am An Environmentalist. ... I Am For Clean Air.

Yes, The Deficit Doctors Have Their Scalpels Out All Right, But They're Not Poised Over The Budget. That's As Fat As Ever And Getting Fatter. What They're Ready To Operate On Is Your Wallet.

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

If It's To Be A Bloodbath, Let It Be Now. Appeasement Is Not The Answer.

Our Military Strength Is A Prerequisite To Peace, But Let It Be Clear We Maintain This Strength In The Hope It Will Never Be Used.

Stick To Your Dreams And Determine That You're Going To Make Them Come True.

America's Foreign Policy Supports Freedom, Democracy, And Human Dignity For All Mankind, And We Make No Apologies For It. The Opportunity Society That We Want For Ourselves We Also Want For Others, Not Because We're Imposing Our System On Others But Because Those Opportunities Belong To All People As God-given Birthrights And Because By Promoting Democracy And Economic Opportunity We Make Peace More Secure.

There Are Many Well-meaning People Today Who Work At Placing An Economic Floor Beneath All Of Us So That No One Shall Exist Below A Certain Level Or Standard Of Living, And Certainly We Don't Quarrel With This. But Look More Closely And You May Find That All Too Often These Well-meaning People Are Building A Ceiling Above Which No One Shall Be Permitted To Climb And Between The Two Are Pressing Us All Into Conformity, Into A Mold Of Standardized Mediocrity.

My Golf-loving Friend Bob Hope Asked Me What My Handicap Was, So I Told Him - The Congress.

These Are The Values Inspiring Those Brave Workers In Poland. The Values That Have Inspired Other Dissidents Under Communist Domination. They Remind Us That Where Free Unions And Collective Bargaining Are Forbidden, Freedom Is Lost.

Now, So There Will Be No Misunderstanding, It's Not My Intention To Do Away With Government. It Is Rather To Make It Work - Work With Us, Not Over Us; To Stand By Our Side, Not Ride On Our Back. Government Can And Must Provide Opportunity, Not Smother It; Foster Productivity, Not Stifle It.

I Know All The Bad Things That Happened In That War. I Was In Uniform Four Years Myself.

We're Entering Our Third Century Now, But It's Wrong To Judge Our Nation By Its Years. The Calendar Can't Measure America Because We Were Meant To Be An Endless Experiment In Freedom, With No Limits To Our Reaches, No Boundaries To What We Can Do, No End Point To Our Hopes.

I Believe In A Sound, Strong Environmental Policy That Protects The Health Of Our People And A Wise Stewardship Of Our Nation's Natural Resources.

We Will Remain Steady. We Will Pursue Every Avenue In The Search For Peace And Stability.

You Will Be Competing Against Athletes From Many Nations. But, Most Important, You Are Competing Against Yourself. All We Expect Is For You To Do Your Very Best, To Push Yourself Just One Second Faster, One Notch Higher, One Inch Further.

For The Eight Years I Was President I Never Let My Dream Of A Nuclear-free World Fade From My Mind.

I've Noticed That Everyone Who Is For Abortion Has Already Been Born.

Isn't Our Choice Really Not One Of Left Or Right, But Of Up Or Down? Down Through The Welfare State To Statism, To More And More Government Largesse Accompanied Always By More Government Authority, Less Individual Liberty, And Ultimately, Totalitarianism, Always Advanced As For Our Own Good. The Alternative Is The Dream Conceived By Our Founding Fathers, Up To The Ultimate In Individual Freedom Consistent With An Orderly Society.

California Produces 40% Of America's Fresh Fruits, Vegetables And Nuts - The Kind You Eat. We Have Had A Bumper Crop Of The Other Variety, Too.

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

May Every Day Be A New Beginning, And Every Dawn Bring Us Closer To That Shining City Upon A Hill.

Going To College Offered Me The Chance To Play Football For Four More Years.

America's Economic Strength Depends On Industry's Ability To Improve Productivity And Quality And To Remain On The Cutting Edge Of Technology, And That's Why The Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award Is So Important.

Most Of My Dreams Came True.

Dreams Came True

When I Took The Oath Of Office, I Pledged Loyalty To Only One Special Interest Group - ‘we The People’.

The Ongoing Migration Of Persons To The United States In Violation Of Our Laws Is A Serious National Problem Detrimental To The Interests Of The United States.

The Doctor Begins To Lose Freedoms; It's Like Telling A Lie, And One Leads To Another. First You Decide That The Doctor Can Have So Many Patients. They Are Equally Divided Among The Various Doctors By The Government. But Then The Doctors Aren't Equally Divided Geographically, So A Doctor Decides He Wants To Practice In One Town And The Government Has To Say To Him You Can't Live In That Town, They Already Have Enough Doctors. You Have To Go Someplace Else. And From Here It Is Only A Short Step To Dictating Where He Will Go.

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.

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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