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Two Soviets . . . Were Talking To Each Other. And One Of Them Asked, "what's The Difference Between The Soviet Constitution And The United States Constitution?" And The Other One Said, "that's Easy. The Soviet Constitution Guarantees Freedom Of Speech And Freedom Of Gathering. The American Constitution Guarantees Freedom After Speech And Freedom After Gathering."

-Ronald Reagan

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Two Soviets . . . Were Talking To Each Other. And One Of Them Asked, "what's The Difference Between The Soviet Constitution And The United States Constitution?" And The Other One Said, "that's Easy. The Soviet Constitution Guarantees Freedom Of Speech And Freedom Of Gathering. The American Constitution Guarantees Freedom After Speech And Freedom After Gathering."

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There Is Nothing Wrong With America That Americans Can't Fix.

It Ought To Be Remembered By All [that] The Games More Than 2,000 Years Ago Started As A Means Of Bringing Peace Between The Greek City-states. And In Those Days, Even If A War Was Going On, They Called Off The War In Order To Hold The Games. I Wish We Were Still As Civilized.

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.

Every Dollar The Federal Government Does Not Take From Us, Every Decision It Does Not Make For Us, Will Make Our Economy Stronger, Our Lives More Abundant, Our Future More Free.

I Have Learned That One Of The Most Important Rules In Politics Is Poise - Which Means Looking Like An Owl After You Have Behaved Like A Jackass.

Deficits, As I've Often Said, Aren't Caused By Too Little Taxing, They're Caused By Too Much Spending. Presidents Can't Appropriate A Dollar Of Tax Payers Money, Only Congressmen Can; And Congress Is Susceptible To All Sorts Of Influences That Have Nothing To Do With Good Government.

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.

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.

Could There Be A Better Answer To The Stupidity Of Karl Marx Than Millions Of Workers Individually Sharing In The Ownership Of The Means Of Production.

Growing And Decaying Vegetation In This Land Are Responsible For 93 Percent Of The Oxides Of Nitrogen.

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

Governments Tend Not To Solve Problems, Only To Rearrange Them.

We Can Have Peace And Brotherly Love By Accepting Our Responsibility To Preserve Freedom.

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!

Too Often, People Forget The Basic Fact Of Life: All Those Good Things We Enjoy Come From The Ache In [our] Backs And The Willingness To Shoulder Great Personals Risks.

You Know, By The Time You Reach My Age, You've Made Plenty Of Mistakes If You've Lived Your Life Properly.

America Has Never Gotten In A War Because We Were Too Strong.

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.

I Would Like To Dissolve The $10 Billion National Department Of Education Created By President Carter And Turn Schools Back To The Local School Districts, Where We Built The Greatest Public School System The World Has Ever Seen. I Think I Can Make A Case That The Decline In The Quality Of Public Education Began When Federal Aid Became Federal Interference.

We Maintain The Peace Through Our Strength; Weakness Only Invites Aggression.

Peace Through Strength

Meanwhile, What About The Workers In Those State Monopolies That Are Being Put Up For Sale? I Am Reminded Of A Technique For Employee Ownership That Has Worked Well For Many U.s. Companies. It Goes By Various Names, But The Best Known Is "employee Stock Ownership Program," Or Esop.

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.

The Full Consequences Of A Default Or Even The Serious Prospect Of Default By The United States Are Impossible To Predict And Awesome To Contemplate. Denigration Of The Full Faith And Credit Of The United States Would Have Substantial Effects On The Domestic Financial Markets And On The Value Of The Dollar In Exchange Markets. The Nation Can Ill Afford To Allow Such A Result. The Risks, The Cost, The Disruptions, And The Incalculable Damage Lead Me To But One Conclusion: The Senate Must Pass This Legislation Before The Congress Adjourns.

All Of Us Should Remember That The Federal Government Is Not Some Mysterious Institution Comprised Of Buildings, Files And Paper. The People Are The Government. What We Create We Ought To Be Able To Control.

Everywhere We Go, Nancy Makes The World A Little Better.

Concentrated Power Has Always Been The Enemy Of Liberty.

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

How Do You Tell A Communist? Well, It's Someone Who Reads Marx And Lenin. And How Do You Tell An Anti-communist? It's Someone Who Understands Marx And Lenin.

When You See All That Rhetorical Smoke Billowing Up From The Democrats, Well Ladies And Gentleman, I'd Follow The Example Of Their Nominee; Don't Inhale.

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.

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.

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

It's Hard, When You're Up To Your Armpits In Alligators, To Remember You Came Here To Drain The Swamp.

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

I Can't Believe That This World Can Go On Beyond Our Generation And On Down To Succeeding Generations With This Kind Of Weapon On Both Sides Poised At Each Other Without Someday Some Fool Or Some Maniac Or Some Accident Triggering The Kind Of War That Is The End Of The Line For All Of Us. And I Just Think Of What A Sigh Of Relief Would Go Up From Everyone On This Earth If Someday-and This Is What I Have-my Hope, Way In The Back Of My Head-is That If We Start Down The Road To Reduction, Maybe One Day In Doing That, Somebody Will Say, 'why Not All The Way? Let's Get Rid Of All These Things'.

Even Now I Wonder What I Might Have Accomplished If I'd Studied Harder

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

From My Mother I Learned The Value Of Prayer, How To Have Dreams And Believe I Could Make Them Come True.

To Sit Back Hoping That Someday, Some Way, Someone Will Make Things Right Is To Go On Feeding The Crocodile, Hoping He Will Eat You Last - But Eat You He Will.

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

The Family Has Always Been The Cornerstone Of American Society.

American Society

There Is No Security, No Safety, In The Appeasement Of Evil.

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