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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.

-Ronald Reagan

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Ronald Reagan

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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.

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Wherever A Beautiful Soul Has Been There Is A Trail Of Beautiful Memories.

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I Won't Hold My Opponent's Youth And Inexperience Against Him.

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The Work Of Volunteer Groups Throughout Our Country Represents The Very Heart And Soul Of America. They Have Helped Make This The Most Compassionate, Generous, And Humane Society That Ever Existed On The Face Of This Earth.

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Work And Family Are At The Center Of Our Lives, The Foundation Of Our Dignity As A Free People.

I Usually Never Walk By A Microphone.

We Can't Socialize The Doctors Without Socializing The Patients.

Together, We'll Build A Far Better Future For America -- A Future Of Growth, Opportunity, And Security, Anchored By The Values Of A People Who Are Confident, Compassionate, And Whose Heart Is Good.

Once People Who Have Been Deprived Of Basic Freedom Taste A Little Of It, They Want All Of It.

A Tree's A Tree. How Many More Do You Need To Look At?

I Believe That Communism Is Another Sad, Bizarre Chapter In Human History Whose Last Pages Even Now Are Being Written. I Believe This Because The Source Of Our Strength In The Quest For Human Freedom Is Not Material, But Spiritual. And Because It Knows No Limitation, It Must Terrify And Ultimately Triumph Over Those Who Would Enslave Their Fellow Men.

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 Think It's Time We Ask Ourselves If We Still Know The Freedoms That Were Intended For Us By The Founding Fathers... Whether We Believe In Our Capacity For Self-government Or Whether We Abandon The American Revolution And Confess That A Little Intellectual Elite In A Far-distant Capital Can Plan Our Lives For Us Better Than We Can Plan Them For Ourselves.

The Family Has Always Been The Cornerstone Of American Society.

American Society

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.

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Federal Government

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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.

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We Will Always Remember. We Will Always Be Proud. We Will Always Be Prepared, So We Will Always Be Free.

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

I Feel That The Whole Western World Will Benefit By The Resurrection Of The Neutron Bomb Project.

The Best Social Program Is A Productive Job For Anyone Who's Willing To Work.

A Moment I've Been Dreading. George Brought His Ne're-do-well Son Around This Morning And Asked Me To Find The Kid A Job. Not The Political One Who Lives In Florida. The One Who Hangs Around Here All The Time Looking Shiftless. This So-called Kid Is Already Almost 40 And Has Never Had A Real Job. Maybe I'll Call Kinsley Over At The New Republic And See If They'll Hire Him As A Contributing Editor Or Something. That Looks Like Easy Work.

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."

State Problems Should Involve State Solutions.

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.

Well, The Task I've Set Forth Will Long Outlive Our Own Generation. But Together, We Too Have Come Through The Worst. Let Us Now Begin A Major Effort To Secure The Best- A Crusade For Freedom That Will Engage The Faith And Fortitude Of The Next Generation. For The Sake Of Peace And Justice, Let Us Move Toward A World In Which All People Are At Last Free To Determine Their Own Destiny.

I Was 21 And Looking For Work In 1932, One Of The Worst Years Of The Great Depression. And I Can Remember One Bleak Night In The Thirties When My Father Learned On Christmas Eve That He'd Lost His Job. To Be Young In My Generation Was To Feel That Your Future Had Been Mortgaged Out From Under You, And That's A Tragic Mistake We Must Never Allow Our Leaders To Make Again.

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

Freedom Is Never More Than One Generation Away From Extinction.

America's Economic Strength Depends On Industry's Ability To Improve Productivity And Quality And To Remain On The Cutting Edge Of Technology, And That's Why The Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award Is So Important.

No Matter What Time It Is, Wake Me, Even If It's In The Middle Of A Cabinet Meeting.

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

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.

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

I Like Photographers - You Don't Ask Questions. (to A Gathering Of The White House News Photographers Association)

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.

Margaret Thatcher - This Great Lady Has Not Only Served Her Country Well, She Has Served The Free World Well.

I Do Not Believe In Taking Away The Right Of The Citizen For Sporting, For Hunting And So Forth, Or For Home Defense. But I Do Believe That An Ak-47, A Machine Gun, Is Not A Sporting Weapon Or Needed For Defense Of A Home.

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

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.

I Believe In A Sound, Strong Environmental Policy That Protects The Health Of Our People And A Wise Stewardship Of Our Nation's Natural Resources.

Politics Is Not A Bad Profession. If You Succeed There Are Many Rewards, If You Disgrace Yourself You Can Always Write A Book.

We Will Never Disarm Any American Who Seeks To Protect His Or Her Family From Fear And Harm.

Her Many Achievements Will Be Appreciated More As Time Goes On.

God's Miracles Are To Be Found In Nature Itself; The Wind And Waves, The Wood That Becomes A Tree - All Of These Are Explained Biologically, But Behind Them Is The Hand Of God.

Democracy Is Not A Fragile Flower; Still It Needs Cultivating.

An Informed Patriotism Is What We Want.

I Think People Have A Need To Feel Good About The Country They Live In, But What's Happening, I Think, Is That That Need - Which Is A Good Thing - Is Getting Manipulated And Exploited.

I'm Not Smart Enough To Lie

Has Anyone Stopped To Consider That We Might Come Closer To Balancing The Budget If All Of Us Simply Tried To Live Up To The Ten Commandments And The Golden Rule?

I'm Spending More Time At This Library In Four Days Than I Did At The Eureka College Library In Four Years.

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.

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