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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.

-Ronald Reagan

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Ronald Reagan

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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.

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Justice For All

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

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A Nation's Greatness Is Measured Not Just By Its Gross National Product Or Military Power, But By The Strength Of Its Devotion To The Principles And Values That Bind Its People And Define Their Character.

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

I Believe Now, As I Alway Have, That America's Strength Is In 'we The People.'

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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.

This Administration Is Totally Colorblind.

The Greatest Security For Israel Is To Create New Egypts.

Freedom Is The Recognition That No Single Person, No Single Authority Or Government Has A Monopoly On The Truth, But That Every Individual Life Is Infinitely Precious, That Every One Of Us Put In This World Has Been Put There For A Reason And Has Something To Offer.

We Are Participating In The Orderly Transfer Of Administrative Authority By The Direction Of The People. And This Is The Simple Magic Which Makes A Commonplace Routine A Near Miracle To Many Of The World

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.

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

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.

General Secretary Gorbachev, If You Seek Peace, If You Seek Prosperity For The Soviet Union And Eastern Europe, If You Seek Liberalization: Come Here To This Gate! Mr. Gorbachev, Open This Gate! Mr. Gorbachev, Tear Down This Wall!

Nothing Lasts Longer Than A Temporary Government Program.

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.

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.

Facts Are Stupid Things Stubborn Things, I Should Say.

I Believe With All My Heart That Our First Priority Must Be World Peace, And That Use Of Force Is Always And Only A Last Resort, When Everything Else Has Failed, And Then Only With Regard To Our National Security.

That's The Nice Thing About This Job. You Get To Quote Yourself Shamelessly. If You Don't, Larry Speakes Will.

We Owe This Freedom Of Choice And Action To Those Men And Women In Uniform Who Have Served This Nation And Its Interests In Time Of Need. In Particular, We Are Forever Indebted To Those Who Have Given Their Lives That We Might Be Free.

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

The Trouble With Our Liberal Friends Is Not That They're Ignorant; It's Just That They Know So Much That Isn't So.

We're Looking Forward To A Great Season At The University Of California - If We Find A Way To Put Cleats On Their Sandals.

A Nation That Cannot Control Its Borders Is Not A Nation.

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

I've Talked To You On A Number Of Occasions About The Economic Problems Our Nation Faces, And I Am Prepared To Tell You It's In A Hell Of A Mess-we're Not Connected To The Press Room Yet, Are We?

A Political Party Cannot Be All Things To All People. It Must Represent Certain Fundamental Beliefs Which Must Not Be Compromised To Political Expediency, Or Simply To Swell Its Numbers.

We Must Act Today In Order To Preserve Tomorrow

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.

There Is A Limit To What You Can Do In Politics.

The Future Is Best Decided By Ballots, Not Bullets.

Constructive Trade, The Two-way Exchange Of Goods And Services, Is The Most Efficient And Logical Way For Each Nation . . . To Build A Stable Prosperity, A Prosperity Based Not On Aid, But On Mutually Beneficial Economic Contacts.

Abortion Is Advocated Only By Persons Who Have Themselves Been Born.

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.

Revolution Means Democracy In Today's World, Not The Enslavement Of Peoples To The Corrupt And Degrading Horrors Of Totalitarianism

If History Teaches Us Anything, It Teaches That Simple-minded Appeasement Or Wishful Thinking About Our Adversaries Is Folly.

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.

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