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There Is No Love Like A Mother’s - She Who Carries The Child That God Knits In The Womb, She Who Nourishes And Guides, She Who Teaches And Inspires, She Who Gives Of Her Heart And Soul And Self For The Good And The Happiness Of Her Children And Her Family.

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There Is No Love

Ronald Reagan

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There Is No Love Like A Mother’s - She Who Carries The Child That God Knits In The Womb, She Who Nourishes And Guides, She Who Teaches And Inspires, She Who Gives Of Her Heart And Soul And Self For The Good And The Happiness Of Her Children And Her Family.

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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.

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

We Need True Tax Reform That Will At Least Make A Start Toward Restoring For Our Children The American Dream That Wealth Is Denied To No One, That Each Individual Has The Right To Fly As High As His Strength And Ability Will Take Him.

I Think, Too, That We've Got To Recognize That Where The Preservation Of A Natural Resource Like The Redwoods Is Concerned, That There Is A Common Sense Limit. I Mean, If You've Looked At A Hundred Thousand Acres Or So Of Trees-you Know, A Tree Is A Tree, How Many More Do You Need To Look At? Opposing Expansion Of Redwood National Park.

As For The Enemies Of Freedom, Those Who Are Potential Adversaries, They Will Be Reminded That Peace Is The Highest Aspiration Of The American People. We Will Negotiate For It, Sacrifice For It, We Will Not Surrender For It - Now Or Ever.

The Man Who Puts Into The Marriage Only Half Of What He Owns Will Get That Out.

Tyranny, Like Fog In The Well Known Poem, Often Creeps In Silently 'on Little Cat Feet.'

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.

The Person Who Agrees With You 80 Percent Of The Time Is A Friend And An Ally - Not A 20 Percent Traitor.

Like The Genocide Of The Armenians Before It, And The Genocide Of The Cambodians Which Followed It ... The Lessons Of The Holocaust Must Never Be Forgotten.

. . . I Hope That When You're My Age, You'll Be Able To Say As I Have Been Able To Say: We Lived In Freedom, We Lived Lives That Were A Statement, Not An Apology.

Americans Are Not Going To Tolerate Intimidation, Terror And Outright Acts Of War Against This Nation And Its People. And We Are Especially Not Going To Tolerate These Attacks From Outlaw States Run By The Strangest Collection Of Misfits, Looney Tunes And Squalid Criminals Since The Advent Of The Third Reich ... There Can Be No Place On Earth Where It Is Safe For These Monsters To Rest,or Train Or Practice Their Cruel And Deadly. We Must Act Together - Or Unilateraly, If Necessary - To Ensue That These Terrorists Have No Sanctuary, Anywhere.

I've Always Believed That We Were, Each Of Us, Put Here For A Reason, That There Is A Plan, Somehow A Divine Plan For All Of Us. I Know Now That Whatever Days Are Left To Me Belong To Him.

I Know That It Is Often Difficult To Stand Up For One's Beliefs When They Are Being Harshly Challenged. But As One Who Has Seen Many Challenges Over A Long Lifetime, I Can Assure You That Personal Faith And Conviction Are Strengthened, Not Weakened, In Adversity.

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.

Politics Is Supposed To Be The Second-oldest Profession... And I Have Come To Realize That It Bears A Very Close Resemblance To The First.

There Are Only Two Things That The Liberals Don't Understand: The Things That Change And The Things That Don't.

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

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.

I Spoke To Ears That Refused To Hear.

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

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

Most Of My Dreams Came True.

Dreams Came True

We're Here To Mark That Day In History When The Allied Peoples Joined In Battle To Reclaim This Continent To Liberty. For Four Long Years, Much Of Europe Had Been Under A Terrible Shadow. Free Nations Had Fallen, Jews Cried Out In The Camps, Millions Cried Out For Liberation. Europe Was Enslaved, And The World Prayed For Its Rescue. Here In Normandy The Rescue Began. Here The Allies Stood And Fought Against Tyranny In A Giant Undertaking Unparalleled In Human History.

After Watching The State Of The Union Address The Other Night [1994], I'm Reminded Of The Old Adage That Imitation Is The Sincerest Form Of Flattery. Only In This Case, It's Not Flattery, But Grand Larceny: The Intellectual Theft Of Ideas That You And I Recognize As Our Own. Speech Delivery Counts For Little On The World Stage Unless You Have Convictions, And, Yes, The Vision To See Beyond The Front Row Seats.

... A Faceless Mass, Waiting For Handouts.

Ending Inflation Means Freeing All Americans From The Terror Of Runaway Living Costs. ... We Have Every Right To Dream Heroic Dreams. Those Who Say That We Are In A Time When There Are No Heroes Just Don't Know Where To Look. ... 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.

We Know That This Mad Dog Of The Middle East Has A Goal Of A World Revolution. (on Muammar Qaddafi Of Libya)

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

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.

Without God, There Is No Virtue Because There Is No Prompting Of The Conscience... Without God, There Is A Coarsening Of The Society; Without God, Democracy Will Not And Cannot Long Endure.

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!

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

Freedom And The Dignity Of The Individual Have Been More Available And Assured Here Than In Any Other Place On Earth. The Price For This Freedom At Times Has Been High, But We Have Never Been Unwilling To Pay The Price.

Whatever Else History May Say About Me When I'm Gone, I Hope It Will Record That I Appealed To Your Best Hopes, Not Your Worst Fears; To Your Confidence Rather Than Your Doubts. My Dream Is That You Will Travel The Road Ahead With Liberty's Lamp Guiding Your Steps And Opportunity's Arm Steadying Your Way.

Live Simply, Love Generously, Care Deeply, Speak Kindly, Leave The Rest To God.

I Call Upon The Scientific Community In Our Country, Those Who Gave Us Nuclear Weapons, To Turn Their Great Talents Now To The Cause Of Mankind And World Peace: To Give Us The Means Of Rendering These Nuclear Weapons Impotent And Obsolete.

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

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

Words Are Even More Feeble On This Memorial Day, For The Sight Before Us Is That Of A Strong And Good Nation That Stands In Silence And Remembers Those Who Were Loved And Who, In Return, Loved Their Countrymen Enough To Die For Them.

Admittedly, There Is A Risk In Any Course We Follow Other Than This, But Every Lesson In History Tells Us That The Greater Risk Lies In Appeasement, And This Is The Specter Our Well-meaning Liberal Friends Refuse To Face.

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

Today It Is Difficult To Find Leaders Who Are Independent Of The Forces That Have Brought Us Our Problems: The Congress, The Bureaucracy, The Lobbyists, Big Business, And Big Labor.

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

A Nation Without Borders Is No Nation At All.

The National Democratic Leadership Is Going So Far Left, They've Left America. Don't Let Them Bury The American Dream In Their Graveyard Of Gloom And Envy.

Yet Optimism Is In Order, Because Day By Day Democracy Is Proving Itself To Be A Not-at-all-fragile Flower. From Stettin On The Baltic To Varna On The Black Sea, The Regimes Planted By Totalitarianism Have Had More Than 30 Years To Establish Their Legitimacy. But None - Not One Regime - Has Yet Been Able To Risk Free Elections. Regimes Planted By Bayonets Do Not Take Root.

I'm Not A Politician By Profession. I Am A Citizen Who Decided I Had To Be Personally Involved.

We Could Say The Government Spend Like Drunken Sailors, But That Would Be Unfair To Drunken Sailors, Because The Sailors Are Spending Their Own Money.

To Do Whatever Needs To Be Done To Preserve This Last And Greatest Bastion Of Freedom.

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.

There Are No Easy Answers' But There Are Simple Answers. We Must Have The Courage To Do What We Know Is Morally Right.

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.

Let Us Remember With Devotion That The Flag We Love And Honor Is The Flag Of Freedom That Flew In Victory At Yorktown, The Flag The United States Marines Raised On Mount Suribachi, The Flag Francis Scott Key Saw By The Dawn's Early Light. Long May It Wave.

I Just Don't Think It's Good For Us To Be Run Out Of Town. (refusing To Cancel Secretary Of State Visit To Moscow)

Fascism Was Really The Basis For The New Deal.

Abraham Lincoln Recognized That We Could Not Survive As A Free Land When Some Men Could Decide That Others Were Not Fit To Be Free And Should Therefore Be Slaves. Likewise, We Cannot Survive As A Free Nation When Some Men Decide That Others Are Not Fit To Live And Should Be Abandoned To Abortion Or Infanticide.

Freedom Is Always Just One Generation Away From Extinction. We Don't Pass It To Our Children In The Bloodstream. We Have To Fight For It And Protect It And Then Hand It To Them, So That They Shall Do The Same, Or We're Going To Find Ourselves Spending Our Sunset Years Telling Our Children And Our Children's Children, About A Time In America, Back In The Day, When Men And Women Were Free.

I Now Have Absolute Proof That Smoking Even One Marijuana Cigarette Is Equal In Brain Damage To Being On Bikini Island During An H-bomb Blast

Today A Newcomer To The State Is Automatically Eligible For Our Many Aid Programs The Moment He Crosses The Border.

No Longer Must Government Be Allowed To Ride Roughshod, Absorbing The People's Wealth, Usurping Their Rights, And Crushing Their Spirit.

He Will Long Be Remembered As One Of The Great Christian Thinkers Of Our Century, With A Childlike Faith And A Profound Compassion Toward Others. It Can Rarely Be Said Of An Individual That His Life Touched Many Others And Affected Them For The Better; It Will Be Said Of Francis Schaeffer That His Life Touched Millions Of Souls And Brought Them To The Truth Of Their Creator.

Man Is Not Free Unless Government Is Limited.

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

Professional Politicians Like To Talk About The Value Of Experience In Government. Nuts! The Only Experience You Gain In Politics Is How To Be Political.

Every New Day Begins With Possibilities. It's Up To Us To Fill It With The Things That Move Us Toward Progress And Peace.

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

And One More Idea Which May Be Laughed And Sneered At In Some Supposedly Sophisticated Circles, But I Just Have To Believe That The Loving God Who Has Blessed This Land And Thus Made Us A Good And Caring People Should Never Have Been Expelled From America's Classrooms. It's Time To Welcome Him Back, Because Whenever We've Opened Ourselves And Trusted In Him, We've Gained Not Only Moral Courage But Intellectual Strength.

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.

Before I Refuse To Take Your Questions, I Have An Opening Statement.

There Is Purpose And Worth To Each And Every Life.

It's Been Written That The Most Sublime Figure In American History Was George Washington On His Knees In The Snow At Valley Forge. He Personified A People Who Knew That It Was Not Enough To Depend On Their Own Courage And Goodness, That They Must Also Seek Help From God - Their Father And Preserver. Where Did We Begin To Lose Sight Of That Noble Beginning, Of Our Conviction That Standards Of Right And Wrong Do Exist And Must Be Lived Up To? Do We Really Think That We Can Have It Both Ways, That God Will Protect Us In A Time Of Crisis Even As We Turn Away From Him In Our Day-to-day Life?

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

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

Government Does Not Solve Problems; It Subsidizes Them.

This Is Not To Say That The Government Should Confiscate From The "haves" And Bestow Upon The "have-nots", Beyond The Requirements Of A Compassionate Welfare Program To Provide For Those Who Cannot Provide For Themselves. Far From It. But It Is To Say That Our Duty Is To Foster A Strong, Vibrant Wealth-producing Economy Which Operates In Such A Way That New Additions To Wealth Accrue To Those Who Presently Have Little Or No Ownership Stake In Their Country.

I Believe We Must Resolve The Problem At Our Southern Border With Full Regard To The Problems And Needs Of Mexico. I Have Suggested Legalizing The Entry Of Mexican Labor Into This Country On Much The Same Basis You Proposed, Although I Have Not Put It Into The Sense Of Restoring The Bracero Program.

Hope Remains The Highest Reality, The Age-old Power.

Republicans Believe The Best Way To Assure Prosperity Is To Generate More Jobs. The Democrats Believe In More Welfare.

Piling Up Material Goods Cannot Fill The Emptiness Of Lives Which Have No Confidence Or Purpose.

Inspirational Life

What Would This Country Be Without This Great Land Of Ours.

No Nation In History Has Ever Survived A Tax Burden That Reached A Third Of Its National Income.

We're More Than Friends And Neighbors And Allies; We Are Kin, Who Together Have Built The Most Productive Relationship Between Any Two Countries In The World Today.

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

Common Sense Told Us That To Preserve The Peace, We'd Have To Become Strong Again After Years Of Weakness And Confusion. So, We Rebuilt Our Defenses, And This New Year We Toasted The New Peacefulness Around The Globe. Not Only Have The Superpowers Actually Begun To Reduce Their Stockpiles Of Nuclear Weapons...but The Regional Conflicts That Rack The Globe Are Also Beginning To Cease.

To Paraphrase Winston Churchill, I Did Not Take The Oath I Have Just Taken With The Intention Of Presiding Over The Dissolution Of The World's Strongest Economy.

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.

The American Taxing Structure, The Purpose Of Which Was To Serve The People, Began Instead To Serve The Insatiable Appetite Of Government. If You Will Forgive Me, You Know Someone Has Once Likened Government To A Baby. It Is An Alimentary Canal With An Appetite At One End And No Sense Of Responsibility At The Other.

Why Should The Government Subsidize Intellectual Curiosity?

Our Nation Is Indeed Fortunate That We Can Still Draw On An Immense Reservoir Of Courage, Character, And Fortitude, That We Are Still Blessed With Heroes Like Those Of The Space Shuttle Challenger. Man Will Continue His Conquest Of Space. To Reach Out For New Goals And Ever-greater Achievements, That Is The Way We Shall Commemorate Our Seven Challenger Heroes.

All Systems Are Capitalist. It's Just A Matter Of Who Owns And Controls The Capital -- Ancient King, Dictator, Or Private Individual. We Should Properly Be Looking At The Contrast Between A Free Market System Where Individuals Have The Right To Live Like Kings If They Have The Ability To Earn That Right And Government Control Of The Market System Such As We Find Today In Socialist Nations.

The Fourth Landing Of The Columbia Is The Historical Equivalent Of The Driving Of The Golden Spike Which Completed The First Transcontinental Railroad. It Marks Our Entrance Into A New Era.

It Is No Coincidence That When The Thugs Tried To Wrest Control Over Grenada, There Were 30 Soviet Advisors And Hundreds Of Cuban Military And Paramilitary Forces On The Island.

Christopher Columbus Was Looking For A Passage To India, But He Landed In America. He Landed In The Wrong Place, And When He Got Back, He Wasn't Sure Where He'd Been. But Most Important Of All, He Did It On Someone Else's Money.

Conservatives Were Brought Up To Hate Deficits And Justifiably So. We've Long Thought There Are Two Things In Washington That Are Unbalanced - The Budget And The Liberals.

When Cruelty Is Inflicted On Innocent People, It Discredits Whatever Cause.

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.

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.

And There Is The Matter Of Abortion. We Must With Calmness And Resolve Help The Vast Majority Of Our Fellow Americans Understand That The More Than 112 Million Abortions Performed In America In 1980 Amount To A Great Moral Evil, An Assault On The Sacredness Of Human Life.

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

I Heard One Presidential Candidate Say That What This Country Needed Was A President For The Nineties. I Was Set To Run Again. I Thought He Said A President In His Nineties.

As Government Expands, Liberty Contracts.

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.

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.

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. As We Gather Around Our Dining Room Tables For The Midday Meal, Let Us Thank God For Life And The Blessings He's Put Before Us. High Among Them Are Our Families, Our Freedom, And The Opportunities Of A New Year.

We Who Live In Free Market Societies Believe That Growth And Prosperity, And Ultimately Human Fulfillment Are Created From The Bottom Up, Not The Government Down.

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.

Of The Many Influences That Have Shaped The United States Into A Distinctive Nation And People, None May Be Said To Be More Fundamental And Enduring Than The Bible.

If We Get The Federal Government Out Of The Classroom, Maybe We'll Get God Back In.

Let's Face It.., Our Current [immigration Control] System Is Like A Busy Intersection Without A Traffic Cop: Sure There Are Laws On The Books, But Absent Enforcement, There Are Too Many Accidents.

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

Government Is Not The Answer To The Problem - It Is The Problem.

Freedom Is Never More Than One Generation Away From Extinction. We Didn't Pass It To Our Children In The Bloodstream. It Must Be Fought For, Protected, And Handed On For Them To Do The Same.

Doverey, No Proverey - Trust But Verify.

A Stronger Defense Is An Investment In Peace.

Trust The People -- That Is The Crucial Lesson Of History.

In 1992, The Federal Government Actually Issued More Work Authorizations To Immigrants And Temporary Foreign Workers Than The Net Number Of New Jobs Created By Our Economy. Something Is Fundamentally Wrong When We Have Millions Of American Citizens And Legal Residents Begging For Jobs, And Yet We Are Admitting Thousands And Thousands Of Immigrants A Year With Virtually No Consideration To Our Employment Needs Or Their Employment Skills.

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.

Whether Meeting With Leaders And Parents Concerned About Drugs In Bonn, Lisbon, Or With The Holy Father At The Vatican, Or Doing A Pretty Fair Flamenco In Madrid, I Think Nancy's One Of The Best Ambassadors America's Ever Had.

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.

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

I Couldn't Help But Say To [mr. Gorbachev], Just Think How Easy His Task And Mine Might Be In These Meetings That We Held If Suddenly There Was A Threat To This World From Another Planet. [we'd] Find Out Once And For All That We Really Are All Human Beings Here On This Earth Together.

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

[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.

The Size Of The Federal Budget Is Not An Appropriate Barometer Of Social Conscience Or Charitable Concern.

You Know, By The Time You Reach My Age, You've Made Plenty Of Mistakes If You've Lived Your Life Properly. So You Learn. You Put Things In Perspective. You Pull Your Energies Together. You Change. You Go Forward. My Fellow Americans, I Have A Great Deal That I Want To Accomplish With You And For You Over The Next Two Years. And, The Lord Willing, That's Exactly What I Intend To Do.

Let It Never Be Said Of This Generation Of Americans That We Became So Obsessed With Failure That We Refused To Take Risks That Could Further The Cause Of Peace And Freedom In The World.

This Generation

We Don't Lump People By Groups Or Special Interests. And Let Me Add, In The Party Of Lincoln There Is No Room For Intolerance And Not Even A Small Corner For Anti-semitism Or Bigotry Of Any Kind. Many People Are Welcome In Our House, But Not The Bigots.

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

These Young Americans Sent A Message To Terrorists Everywhere. . . . You Can Run But You Can't Hide.

I Think The Presidency Is An Institution Over Which You Have Temporary Custody.

We In America Have Learned Bitter Lessons From Two World Wars: It Is Better To Be Here [in Europe] Ready To Protect The Peace, Than To Take Blind Shelter Across The Sea, Rushing To Respond Only After Freedom Is Lost. We've Learned That Isolationism Never Was And Never Will Be An Acceptable Response To Tyrannical Governments With An Expansionist Intent.

If You Can't Summarize An Issue On One Page, You Don't Understand The Issue Well Enough.

In An Ironic Sense, Karl Marx Was Right. We Are Witnessing Today A Great Revolutionary Crisis, A Crisis Where The Demands Of The Economic Order Are Conflicting Directly With Those Of The Political Order. But The Crisis Is Happening Not In The . . . West, But In The Home Of Marxism-leninism, The Soviet Union. It Is The Soviet Union That Runs Against The Tide Of History By Denying Human Freedom And Human Dignity To Its Citizens.

Isn't It Strange That ... People Build Walls To Keep An Enemy Out, And There's Only One Part Of The World And One Philosophy Where They Have To Build Walls To Keep Their People In

When Our Founding Fathers Passed The First Amendment, They Sought To Protect Churches From Government Interference. They Never Intended To Construct A Wall Of Hostility Between Government And The Concept Of Religious Belief Itself.

I, In My Own Mind, Have Always Thought Of America As A Place In The Divine Scheme Of Things That Was Set Aside As A Promised Land...any Person With The Courage, With The Desire To Tear Up Their Roots, To Strive For Freedom, To Attempt And Dare To Live In A Strange And Foreign Place, To Travel Halfway Across The World Was Welcome Here.

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

The Most Confident Person In Any Transaction Always Introduces Themselves First.

History Shows That When The Taxes Of A Nation Approach About 20 Percent Of The People's Income, There Begins To Be A Lack Of Respect For Government.... When It Reaches 25 Percent, There Comes An Increase In Lawlessness.

Freedom Is A Fragile Thing And Is Never More Than One Generation Away From Extinction. It Is Not Ours By Inheritance; It Must Be Fought For And Defended Constantly By Each Generation, For It Comes Only Once To A People. Those Who Have Known Freedom, And Then Lost It, Have Never Known It Again.

They Are Our Brothers, These Freedom Fighters.... They Are The Moral Equal Of Our Founding Fathers And The Brave Men And Women Of The French Resistance. We Cannot Turn Away From Them, For The Struggle Here Is Not Right Versus Left; It Is Right Versus Wrong.

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.

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

I Believe That George Washington Knew The City Of Man Cannot Survive Without The City Of God; That The Visible City Will Perish Without The Invisible City.

One Way To Make Sure Crime Doesn't Pay Would Be To Let The Government Run It.

The Crew Of The Space Shuttle Challenger Honored Us By The Manner In Which They Lived Their Lives.

One Hundred Nations In The Un Have Not Agreed With Us On Just About Everything That's Come Before Them, Where We're Involved, And It Didn't Upset My Breakfast At All.

Don't Let Anyone Tell You That America's Best Days Are Behind Her - That The American Spirit Has Been Vanquished. We've Seen It Triumph Too Often In Our Lives To Stop Believing In It Now.

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.

You And I Know And Do Not Believe That Life Is So Dear And Peace So Sweet As To Be Purchased At The Price Of Chains And Slavery. If Nothing In Life Is Worth Dying For, When Did This Begin-just In The Face Of This Enemy? Or Should Moses Have Told The Children Of Israel To Live In Slavery Under The Pharaohs? Should Christ Have Refused The Cross? Should The Patriots At Concord Bridge Have Thrown Down Their Guns And Refused To Fire The Shot Heard 'round The World? The Martyrs Of History Were Not Fools, And Our Honored Dead Who Gave Their Lives To Stop The Advance Of The Nazis Didn't Die In Vain.

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

A Hippie Is Someone Who Looks Like Tarzan, Walks Like Jane And Smells Like Cheetah.

Although I Held Public Office For A Total Of Sixteen Years, I Also Thought Of Myself As A Citizen-politician, Not A Career One. Every Now And Then When I Was In Government, I Would Remind My Associates That "when We Start Thinking Of Government As 'us' Instead Of 'them,' We've Been Here Too Long." By That I Mean That Elected Officeholders Need To Retain A Certain Skepticism About The Perfectibility Of Government.

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.

Government Is Never More Dangerous Than When Our Desire To Have It Help Us Blinds Us To Its Great Power To Harm Us.

Unless And Until It Can Be Proven That An Unborn Child Is Not A Living Human Being, Can We Justify Assuming Without Proof That It Isn't? No One Has Yet Offered Such Proof; Indeed, All The Evidence Is To The Contrary.

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.

The More The Plans Fail, The More The Planners Plan.

It Doesn't Do Good To Open Doors For Someone Who Doesn't Have The Price To Get In. If He Has The Price, He May Not Need The Laws. There Is No Law Saying The Negro Has To Live In Harlem Or Watts.

To Grasp And Hold A Vision, That Is The Very Essence Of Successful Leadership-not Only On The Movie Set Where I Learned It, But Everywhere.

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

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

Perhaps No Custom Reveals Our Character As A Nation So Clearly As Our Celebration Of Thanksgiving Day. Rooted Deeply In Our Judeo-christian Heritage, The Practice Of Offering Thanksgiving Underscores Our Unshakable Belief In God As The Foundation Of Our Nation And Our Firm Reliance Upon Him From Whom All Blessings Flow.

Respect For Human Rights Is Not Social Work; It Is Not Merely An Act Of Compassion. It Is The First Obligation Of Government And The Source Of Its Legitimacy.

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

I've Always Believed That This Blessed Land Was Set Apart In A Special Way, That Some Divine Plan Placed This Great Continent Here Between The Oceans To Be Found By People From Every Corner Of The Earth Who Had A Special Love For Freedom And The Courage To Uproot Themselves, Leave Homeland And Friends, To Come To A Strange Land. And Coming Here They Created Something New In All The History Of Mankind-a Land Where Man Is Not Beholden To Government, Government Is Beholden To Man.

Where There's Liberty, Art Succeeds.

We Fought A War On Poverty, And Poverty Won

Our Goals Are The Same As Those Of The U.n.'s Founders, Who Sought To Replace A World At War With One Where The Rule Of Law Would Prevail, Where Human Rights Were Honored, Where Development Would Blossom, Where Conflict Would Give Way To Freedom From Violence.

When A Child Loses His Parent, They Are Called An Orphan. When A Spouse Loses Her Or His Partner, They Are Called A Widow Or Widower. When Parents Lose Their Child, Their Isn't A Word To Describe Them. This Month Recognizes The Loss So Many Parents Experience Across The United States And Around The World. It Is Also Meant To Inform And Provide Resources For Parents Who Have Lost Children Due To Miscarriage, Ectopic Pregnancy, Molar Pregnancy, Stillbirths, Birth Defects, Sids, And Other Causes.

Some Years Ago A Top Ford Official Was Showing The Late Walter Reuther Through The Very Automates Plant In Cleveland, Ohio And He Said To Him Jokingly, "walter, You'll Have A Hard Time Collecting Union Dues From These Machines." And Walter Said, "you Are Going To Have More Trouble Trying To Sell Automobiles To Them." Both Of Them Let It Stop There. There Was A Logical Answer To That ... The Owners Of The Machines Could Buy Automobiles And If You Increase The Number Of Owners You Increase The Number Of Consumers.

Jesse Helms Wants Me To Move To The Right, Lowell Weiker Wants Me To Move To The Left, And Teddy Kennedy Wants Me To Move Back To California.

The Things That Unite Us-america's Past Of Which We Are So Proud, Our Hopes And Aspirations For The Future Of The World And This Much Loved Country-these Things Far Outweigh What Little Divides Us.

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.

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

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.

I Was Raised To Believe That God Has A Plan For Everyone And That Seemingly Random Twists Of Fate Are All A Part Of His Plan.

I Hope The People On Wall Street Will Pay Attention To The People On Main Street. If They Do, They Will See There Is A Rising Tide Of Confidence In The Future Of America.

There Are No Constraints On The Human Mind, No Walls Around The Human Spirit, No Barriers To Our Progress Except Those We Ourselves Erect.

History Comes And History Goes, But Principles Endure, And Ensure Future Generations Will Defend Liberty Not As A Gift From Government But As A Blessing From Our Creator.

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

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

America Needs Jobs And Opportunity, Not Make-work And Handouts.

The Current Tax Code Is A Daily Mugging.

I Don't Want To Do A Tv Series. It's No Fun Working From Dawn To Sunset Every Day. An Occasional Movie Would Be Fine, And Then I'll See What Might Develop On The Political Front.

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

Anybody From Any Corner Of The World Can Come To America To Live And Become An American.

Peace Is Not Absence Of Conflict, It Is The Ability To Handle Conflict By Peaceful Means.

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

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

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.

The United States Trades More With The Province Of Ontario Alone Than With Japan.

I'm Convinced, More Than Ever, That Man Finds Liberation Only When He Binds Himself To God And Commits Himself To His Fellow Man.

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

I've Heard Drug Experts Say They Believe If Penicillin Were Discovered Today, The Fda Wouldn't License It.

America Must Remain Freedom's Staunchest Friend, For Freedom Is Our Best Ally And It Is The World's Only Hope To Conquer Poverty And Preserve Peace.

I Recently Learned Something Quite Interesting About Video Games. Many Young People Have Developed Incredible Hand, Eye, And Brain Coordination In Playing These Games. The Air Force Believes These Kids Will Be Our Outstanding Pilots Should They Fly Our Jets.

Perhaps No Custom Reveals Our Character As A Nation So Clearly As Our Celebration Of Thanksgiving Day.

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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