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There Is No Greater Happiness For A Man Than Approaching A Door At The End Of A Day Knowing Someone On The Other Side Of That Door Is Waiting For The Sound Of His Footsteps.

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There Is No Greater Happiness For A Man Than Approaching A Door At The End Of A Day Knowing Someone On The Other Side Of That Door Is Waiting For The Sound Of His Footsteps.

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The Bible And Its Teachings Helped Form The Basis For The Founding Fathers' Abiding Belief In The Inalienable Rights Of The Individual, Rights Which They Found Implicit In The Bible's Teachings Of The Inherent Worth And Dignity Of Each Individual. This Same Sense Of Man Patterned The Convictions Of Those Who Framed The English System Of Law Inherited By Our Own Nation, As Well As The Ideals Set Forth In The Declaration Of Independence And The Constitution.

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I Just Have To Believe That With Love For Our Natural Heritage And A Firm Resolve To Preserve It With Wisdom And Care, We Can And Will Give The American Land To Our Children, Not Impaired, But Enhanced. And In Doing This, We'll Honor The Great And Loving God Who Gave Us This Land In The First Place.

A Truly Successful Army Is One That, Because Of Its Strength And Ability And Dedication, Will Not Be Called Upon To Fight, For No One Will Dare To Provoke It.

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

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.

What Has Happened To The Dreams Of The United Nations' Founders? What Has Happened To The Spirit Which Created The United Nations? The Answer Is Clear: Governments Got In The Way Of The Dreams Of The People.

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Congressional Mistakes Have Dramatically Increased Immigration Through A Series Of What I Believe Were Ill-advised Actions Going Back To 1965 When The Basic Notions Of Our Immigration Laws Were Revised. In 1990, Congress Opened The Floodgates By Passing A 35-percent Increase In Legal Immigration.

I've Always Believed That A Lot Of The Trouble In The World Would Disappear If We Were Talking To Each Other Instead Of About Each Other.

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Information Is The Oxygen Of The Modern Age.

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Double - No, Triple - Our Troubles And We'd Still Be Better Off Than Any Other People On Earth.

I Have Flown Twice Over Mount St. Helens Out On Our West Coast. I'm Not A Scientist And I Don't Know The Figures, But I Have A Suspicion That That One Little Mountain Has Probably Released More Sulfur Dioxide Into The Atmosphere Of The World Than Has Been Released In The Last Ten Years Of Automobile Driving Or Things Of That Kind That People Are So Concerned About.

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Nations Crumble From Within When The Citizenry Asks Of Government Those Things Which The Citizenry Might Better Provide For Itself.

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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.

I Have Decided That Whatever Time I May Have Left Is Left For Him.

Facts Are Stupid Things Stubborn Things, I Should Say.

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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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These Gentlemen Are The Moral Equivalents Of America's Founding Fathers.

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When The Lord Calls Me Home, Whenever That May Be, I Will Leave With The Greatest Love For This County Of Ours And Eternal Optimism For Its Future.

We Can Look Forward To The Day When The Free Flow Of Trade, From The Southern Reaches Of Tierra Del Fuego To The Northern Outposts Of The Arctic Circle, Unites The People Of The Western Hemisphere In A Bond Of Mutually Beneficial Exchange, When All Borders Become What The U.s.-canadian Border So Long Has Been: A Meeting Place, Rather Than A Dividing Line.

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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I Hope You're All Republicans.

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Well, I Think There Has To Be Some (gun) Control.

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A Nation Without Borders Is No Nation At All.

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I Have Always Thought Of Government As A Kind Of Organism With An Insatiable Appetite For Money, Whose Natural State Is To Grow Forever Unless You Do Something To Starve It.

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.

Many A Man Has Failed Because He Had His Wishbone Where His Backbone Should Have Been.

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

It Is The Tendency Of Government To Grow, For Practices And Programs To Become The Nearest Thing To Eternal Life We'll See On This Earth.

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.

We Are For Aiding Our Allies By Sharing Of Our Material Blessings With Those Nations Which Share In Our Fundamental Beliefs, But We're Against Doling Out Money Government To Government, Creating Bureaucracy, If Not Socialism, All Over The World. We Set Out To Help 19 Countries. We're Helping 107. We've Spent 146 Billion Dollars. With That Money, We Bought A 2 Million Dollar Yacht For Haile Selassie. We Bought Dress Suits For Greek Undertakers, Extra Wives For Kenya[n] Government Officials. We Bought A Thousand Tv Sets For A Place Where They Have No Electricity.

If A Tax Hike Makes It To My Desk, I'll Veto It In Less Time Than It Takes Vanna White To Turn The Letters V-e-t-o!

Are You Willing To Spend Time Studying The Issues, Making Yourself Aware, And Then Conveying That Information To Family And Friends? Will You Resist The Temptation To Get A Government Handout For Your Community?

Human Beings Are Not Animals, And I Do Not Want To See Sex And Sexual Differences Treated As Casually And Amorally As Dogs And Other Beasts Treat Them. I Believe This Could Happen Under The Era.

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I Am Very Proud To Be Called A Pig. It Stands For Pride, Integrity And Guts.

... The Moral Equal Of Our Founding Fathers.

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

The One Thing Our Founding Fathers Could Not Foresee - They Were Farmers, Professional Men, Businessmen Giving Of Their Time And Effort To An Idea That Became A Country - Was A Nation Governed By Professional Politicians Who Had An Interest In Getting Re-elected. They Probably Envisioned A Fellow Serving A Couple Of Hitches And Then Eagerly Looking Forward To Getting Back To The Farm.

Government Is Not A Solution To Our Problem, Government Is The Problem. ... Government Does Not Solve Problems; It Subsidizes Them. Government's View Of The Economy Could Be Summed Up In A Few Short Phrases: If It Moves, Tax It. If It Keeps Moving, Regulate It. If It Stops Moving, Subsidize It. ... The Problem Is Not That People Are Taxed Too Little, The Problem Is That Government Spends Too Much.

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

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.

I Was Alarmed At My Doctor's Report: He Said I Was Sound As A Dollar.

The Founders Of The United Nations Expected That Member Nations Would Behave And Vote As Individuals After They Had Weighed The Merits Of An Issue - Rather Like A Great, Global Town Meeting. The Emergence Of Blocks And The Polarization Of The United Nations Undermine All That This Organization Initially Valued.

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

George Burns . . . The Only Man I Know Who Does Fool Mother Nature.

I Spoke To Ears That Refused To Hear.

There Is A Mandate To Impose A Voluntary Return To Traditional Values.

It's Time That We Recognized That Ours Was In Truth A Noble Cause.

It's True Hard Work Never Killed Anybody, But I Figure, Why Take The Chance?

Almost All The Worlds' 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.

I Don't Believe In A Government That Protects Us From Ourselves.

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

It Is The Soviet Union That Runs Against The Tide Of History . . . . [it Is] The March Of Freedom And Democracy Which Will Leave Marxism-leninism On The Ash Heap Of History, As It Has Left Other Tyrannies Which Stifle The Freedom And Muzzle The Self-expression Of The People.

There Can Be No Security Anywhere In The Free World If There Is No Fiscal And Economic Stability Within The United States.

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

Rewards And Recognition

We Must Reject The Idea That Every Time A Law's Broken, Society Is Guilty Rather Than The Lawbreaker. It Is Time To Restore The American Precept That Each Individual Is Accountable For His Actions.

The Most Terrifying Words In The English Language Are: I'm From The Government And I'm Here To Help.

For The Average American, The Message Is Clear. Liberalism Is No Longer The Answer. It Is The Problem.

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

Spiritual Renewal

The Greatest Leader Is Not Necessarily The One Who Does The Greatest Things. He Is The One That Gets The People To Do The Greatest Things.

But I Also Happen To Be Someone Who Believes In Tithing--the Giving Of A Tenth .

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

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.

We Must Be Cautious In Claiming God Is On Our Side. I Think The Real Question We Must Answer Is, Are We On His Side?

I've Spoken Of The Shining City All My Political Life, But I Don't Know If I Ever Quite Communicated What I Saw When I Said It. But In My Mind It Was A Tall, Proud City Built On Rocks Stronger Than Oceans, Windswept, God-blessed, And Teeming With People Of All Kinds Living In Harmony And Peace; A City With Free Ports That Hummed With Commerce And Creativity. And If There Had To Be City Walls, The Walls Had Doors And The Doors Were Open To Anyone With The Will And Heart To Get There. That's How I Saw It, And See It Still.

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?'

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

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.

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

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America's Best Days Are Yet To Come.

Because You Won't Get Gun Control By Disarming Law Abiding Citizens. There's Only One Way To Get Real Gun Control: Disarm The Thugs And The Criminals, Lock Them Up, And If You Don't Actually Throw Away The Key, At Least Lose It For A Long Time.

You Can Tell Alot About A Fellow's Character By His Way Of Eating Jellybeans.

The Montreal Protocol Is A Model Of Cooperation. It Is A Product Of The Recognition And International Consensus That Ozone Depletion Is A Global Problem, Both In Terms Of Its Causes And Its Effects. The Protocol Is The Result Of An Extraordinary Process Of Scientific Study, Negotiations Among Representatives Of The Business And Environmental Communities, And International Diplomacy. It Is A Monumental Achievement.

The Little Dictator Who Went To Moscow In His Green Fatigues To Receive A Bear Hug Did Not Forsake The Doctrine Of Lenin When He Returned To The West And Appeared In A Two-piece Suit. (on Daniel Ortega Saavedra)

Bobby Kennedy Is So Concerned With Poverty Because He Didn't Have Any As A Kid.

Only Our Deep Moral Values And Our Strong Social Institutions Can Hold Back That Jungle And Restrain The Darker Impulses Of Human Nature.

Welfare's Purpose Should Be To Eliminate, As Far As Possible, The Need For Its Own Existence.

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 Future Doesn't Belong To The Light-hearted. It Belongs To The Brave.

Our Federal Tax System Is, In Short, Utterly Impossible, Utterly Unjust And Completely Counterproductive . . . [it] Reeks With Injustice, And Is Fundamentally Un-american

They [the Soviet Union] Are The Focus Of Evil In The Modern World.

Thomas Jefferson Once Said. He Said , "we Should Never Judge A President By His Age, Only By His Works." And Ever Since He Told Me That, I've Stopped Worrying. There Are Those Who Say I've Stopped Working.

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

Together, Let Us Make This A New Beginning. Let Us Make A Commitment To Care For The Needy, To Teach Our Children The Values And The Virtues Handed Down To Us By Our Families, To Have The Courage To Defend Those Values And The Willingess To Sacrifice For Them. Let Us Pledge To Restore, In Our Time, The American Spirit Of Voluntary Service, Of Cooperation, Of Private And Community Initiative, A Spirit That Flows Like A Deep And Mighty River Through The History Of Our Nation.

God, The Source Of All Knowledge, Should Never Have Been Expelled From Our Children's Classrooms.

Do What's Right And You'll Please Some Of The People And Astound The Rest.

The Men Of Normandy Had Faith That What They Were Doing Was Right, Faith That They Fought For All Humanity, Faith That A Just God Would Grant Them Mercy On This Beachhead Or The Next. It Was The Deep Knowledge - And Pray God We Have Not Lost It - That There Is A Profound Moral Difference Between The Use Of Force For Liberation And The Use Of Force For Conquest.

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

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.

Governments Don't Control Things. A Government Can't Control The Economy Without Controlling People.

We Are Never Defeated Unless We Give Up On God.

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