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To Many Of Us Now, Computers, Silicon Chips, Data Processing, Cybernetics, And All The Other Innovations Of The Dawning High Technology Age Are As Mystifying As The Workings Of The Combustion Engine Must Have Been When That First Model T Rattled Down Main Street, U.s.a. But As Surely As America's Pioneer Spirit Made Us The Industrial Giant Of The 20th Century, The Same Pioneer Spirit Today Is Opening Up On Another Vast Front Of Opportunity, The Frontier Of High Technology.

-Ronald Reagan

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To Many Of Us

Ronald Reagan

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To Many Of Us Now, Computers, Silicon Chips, Data Processing, Cybernetics, And All The Other Innovations Of The Dawning High Technology Age Are As Mystifying As The Workings Of The Combustion Engine Must Have Been When That First Model T Rattled Down Main Street, U.s.a. But As Surely As America's Pioneer Spirit Made Us The Industrial Giant Of The 20th Century, The Same Pioneer Spirit Today Is Opening Up On Another Vast Front Of Opportunity, The Frontier Of High Technology.

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American Society

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My Philosophy And My Belief Was That There Was A Long Way For Us To Go In Improving What We Had Ever Known Before, That This Country Of Ours Was A Country Of Constant Improvement. And So I Thought That, Well, What My Whole Approach Was Based On The Promise Of A Better America.

Have We The Courage And The Will To Face Up To The Immorality And Discrimination Of The Progressive Tax, And Demand A Return To Traditional Proportionate Taxation? ... Today In Our Country The Tax Collector's Share Is 37 Cents Of Every Dollar Earned. Freedom Has Never Been So Fragile, So Close To Slipping From Our Grasp.

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.

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.

Eighty Percent Of Air Pollution Comes From Plants And Trees.

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

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.

Someday, The Realm Of Liberty And Justice Will Encompass The Planet. Freedom Is Not Just The Birthright Of The Few, It Is The God-given Right Of All His Children, In Every Country. It Won't Come By Conquest. It Will Come, Because Freedom Is Right And Freedom Works. It Will Come, Because Cooperation And Good Will Among Free People Will Carry The Day.

Mankind's Journey Into Space, Like Every Great Voyage Of Discovery, Will Become Part Of Our Unending Journey Of Liberation. In The Limitless Reaches Of Space, We Will Find Liberation From Tyranny, From Scarcity, From Ignorance And From War. We Will Find The Means To Protect This Earth And To Nurture Every Human Life, And To Explore The Universe. . . .this Is Our Mission, This Is Our Destiny.

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.

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

Going Around This Country, I Have Found A Great Hunger In America For Spiritual Revival; For A Belief That Law Must Be Based On A Higher Law; For A Return To Traditions And Values That We Once Had. Our Government, In Its Most Sacred Documents - The Constitution And The Declaration Of Independence And All - Speak Of Man Being Created, Of A Creator; That We're A Nation Under God.

We Are Forever Indebted To Those Who Have Given Their Lives That We Might Be Free.

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.

We're Americans, And We Have A Rendezvous With Destiny . . . No People Who Have Ever Lived On This Earth Have Fought Harder, Paid A Higher Price For Freedom, Or Done More To Advance The Dignity Of Man Than Americans.

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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The Constitution Was Never Meant To Prevent People From Praying, It's Declared Purpose Was To Protect Their Freedom To Pray

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

Freedom Prospers Only Where The Blessings Of God Are Avidly Sought, And Humbly Accepted.

The Future Is Best Decided By Ballots, Not Bullets.

I Think We Should Keep The Grain And Export The Farmers.

The Family Has Always Been The Cornerstone Of American Society. Our Families Nurture, Preserve, And Pass On To Each Succeeding Generation The Values We Share And Cherish, Values That Are The Foundation Of Our Freedoms.

I Believe Moses Was 80 When God First Commissioned Him For Public Service.

I Don't Have Too Much Time For Fiction.

What We Have Found In This Country, And Maybe We're More Aware Of It Now, Is One Problem That We've Had, Even In The Best Of Times, And That Is The People Who Are Sleeping On The Grates, The Homeless, You Might Say, By Choice.

The Difference Between Them And Us Is That We Want To Check Government Spending And They Want To Spend Government Checks.

Entrepreneurs Are The Forgotten Heroes Of America.

This Democracy Of Ours, Which Sometimes We've Treated So Lightly, Is More Than Ever A Comfortable Cloak, So Let Us Not Tear It Asunder, For No Man Knows, Once It Is Destroyed, Where Or When He Will Find Its Protective Warmth Again.

What Is Important Is That One Strives To Achieve A Goal.

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?'

The State Of California Has No Business Subsidizing Intellectual Curiosity.

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

We Can Meet Our Destiny, And That Destiny To Build A Land Here That Will Be, For All Mankind, A Shining City On A Hill.

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

Please Tell Me You're Republicans.

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