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We Are Never Defeated

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We Are Never Defeated Unless We Give Up On God.

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

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

Peace Through Strength

The True Lesson Of The Vietnam War Is: Certainty Of Purpose And Ruthlessness Of Execution Win Wars.

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.

The Most Terrifying Words In The English Language Are: I'm From The Government And I'm Here To Help.

We Can't Build A Safer World With Honorable Intentions And Good Will Alone. Achieving The Fundamental Goals Our Nation Seeks In World Affairs - Peace, Human Rights, Economics Progress National Independence And International Stability - Means Supporting Our Friends And Defending Our Interests.

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

The Future Belongs To The Free.

Protecting The Rights Of Even The Least Individual Among Us Is Basically The Only Excuse The Government Has For Even Existing.

The Current Tax Code Is A Daily Mugging.

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

In 1939 Winston Churchill, Describing The 5000-mile Peaceful Border Dividing Canada And The United States, Said, 'that Long Frontier From The Atlantic To The Pacific Oceans, Guarded Only By Neighborly Respect And Honorable Obligations, Is An Example To Every Country And A Pattern For The Future Of The World.

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

Public Servants Say, Always With The Best Of Intentions, 'what Greater Service We Could Render If Only We Had A Little More Money And A Little More Power.' But The Truth Is That Outside Of Its Legitimate Function, Government Does Nothing As Well Or As Economically As The Private Sector.

My Basic Rule Is That I Want People Who Don't Want A Job In Government.

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.

These Are The Values Inspiring Those Brave Workers In Poland. The Values That Have Inspired Other Dissidents Under Communist Domination. They Remind Us That Where Free Unions And Collective Bargaining Are Forbidden, Freedom Is Lost.

We Have Not Inherited An Easy World. If Developments Like The Industrial Revolution, Which Began Here In England, And The Gifts Of Science And Technology Have Made Life Much Easier For Us, They Have Also Made It More Dangerous.

Those Who Advocate More And More Government Regulation Have Been Experimenting For 40 Years, Trying To Create An Economic System In Which Everyone Can Somehow Be Made More Prosperous By The Toil Of Someone Else.

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

I Don't Have Too Much Time For Fiction.

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

Too Often Character Assassination Has Replaced Debate In Principle Here In Washington. Destroy Someone's Reputation, And You Don't Have To Talk About What He Stands For.

In My Eighty Years, I Prefer To Call That The Forty-first Anniversary Of My Thirty Ninth Birthday, I've Seen What Men Can Do For Each Other And Do To Each Other, I've Seen War And Peace, Feast And Famine, Depression And Prosperity, Sickness And Health. I've Seen The Depth Of Suffering And The Peaks Of Triumph And I Know In My Heart That Man Is Good, That What Is Right Will Always Eventually Triumph And That There Is Purpose And Worth To Each And Every Life.

When The Lord Calls Me Home, Whenever That May Be, I Will Leave With The Greatest Love For This County Of Ours And Eternal Optimism For Its Future.

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

Regimes Planted By Bayonets Do Not Take Root... 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, For The Ultimate Determinant In The Struggle That's Now Going On In The World Will Not Be Bombs And Rockets But A Test Of Wills And Ideas, A Trial Of Spiritual Resolve, The Values We Hold, The Beliefs We Cherish, The Ideals To Which We Are Dedicated.

The Despicable North Korean Attack In Rangoon Deprived Us Of Trusted Advisers And Friends. So Many Of Those Who Died Had Won Admirers In America As They Studied With Us Or Guided Us With Their Counsel. I Personally Recall The Wisdom And Composure Of Foreign Minister Lee, With Whom I Met In Washington Just A Few Short Months Ago. To The Families And Countrymen Of All Those Who Were Lost, America Expresses Its Deep Sorrow.

If We Ever Forget That We Are One Nation Under God, Then We Will Be A Nation Gone Under.

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.

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.

No Government Ever Voluntarily Reduces Itself In Size. Government Programs, Once Launched, Never Disappear. Actually, A Government Bureau Is The Nearest Thing To Eternal Life We'll Ever See On This Earth!

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

May Each Of You Have The Heart To Conceive, The Understanding To Direct, And The Hand To Execute Works That Will Leave The World A Little Better For Your Having Been Here.

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.

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

...100% Of What Is Collected Is Absorbed Solely By Interest On The Federal Debt...all Individual Income Tax Revenues Are Gone Before One Nickel Is Spent On The Services Taxpayers Expect From Government.

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 Have Come To The Conclusion That The 22nd Amendment [limiting The Presidency To Two Terms] Was A Mistake. Shouldn't The People Have The Right To Vote For Someone As Many Times As They Want To Vote For Him?

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.

The Task That Has Fallen To Us As Americans Is To Move The Conscience Of The World, To Keep Alive The Hope And Dream Of Freedom. For If We Fail Or Falter, There'll Be No Place For The World's Oppressed To Flee To. This Is Not A Role We Sought. We Preach No Manifest Destiny. But Like The Americans Who Brought A New Nation Into The World 200 Years Ago, History Has Asked Much Of Us In Our Time. Much We've Already Given; Much More We Must Be Prepared To Give.

Of The Many Messages Found In The Hanukah Story, The One That Has Always Inspired Me Most Is This: With A Strong Faith In The Almighty, Nothing Is Impossible; And Without The Help Of Our Creator, We Labor In Vain.

Yes, Deficits Are A Problem. I've Been Saying So For More Than A Quarter Of A Century Now. But The Problem Is Not The Size Of The Deficit, It's The Size Of Government's Claim On Our Economy.

Could There Be Anything But Widespread Misery, Where A Privileged Few Controlled A Nation's Wealth, While Millions Labored For A Pittance, And Millions More Were Desperate For Want Of Employment?

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

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

The Best View Of Big Government Is In The Rearview Mirror As We Leave It Behind.

Democracy Is Worth Dying For, Because It's The Most Deeply Honorable Form Of Government Ever Devised By Man.

The Glory Of This Land Has Been Its Capacity For Transcending The Moral Evils Of Our Past. For Example, The Long Struggle Of Minority Citizens For Equal Rights, Once A Source Of Disunity And Civil War, Is Now A Point Of Pride For All Americans. We Must Never Go Back. There Is No Room For Racism, Anti-semitism, Or Other Forms Of Ethnic And Racial Hatred In This Country.

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!

I Can't Claim To Know The Words Of All The National Anthems In The World, But I Don't Know Of Any Other That Ends With A Question And A Challenge As Ours Does: Does That Flag Still Wave O'er The Land Of The Free And The Home Of The Brave? That Is What We Must All Ask.

Shouldn't Someone Tag Mr. Kennedy's Bold New Imaginative Program With Its Proper Age? Under The Tousled Boyish Haircut Is Still Old Karl Marx - First Launched A Century Ago. There Is Nothing New In The Idea Of A Government Being Big Brother.

There Were So Many Candidates On The Platform That There Were Not Enough Promises To Go Around.

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

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 Have Been One Who Believes That Abortion Is The Taking Of A Human Life . . . . The Fact That They Could Not Resolve The Issue Of When Life Begins Was A Finding In And Of Itself. If We Don't Know, Then Shouldn't We Morally Opt On The Side That It Is Life? If You Came Upon An Immobile Body And You Yourself Could Not Determine Whether It Was Dead Or Alive, I Think That You Would Decide To Consider It Alive Until Somebody Could Prove It Was Dead. You Wouldn't Get A Shovel And Start Covering It Up. And I Think We Should Do The Same Thing With Regard To Abortion.

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

With Regard To The Freedom Of The Individual For Choice With Regard To Abortion, There Is One Individual Who Is Not Being Considered At All, And That Is The One Who Is Being Aborted. And I Have Noticed That Everybody That Is For Abortion Has Already Been Born.

Christmas Is A Holiday That We Celebrate Not As Individuals Nor As A Nation, But As A Human Family.

I Am Told That Tens Of Thousands Of Prayer Meetings Are Being Held On This Day; For That I Am Deeply Grateful. We Are A Nation Under God, And I Believe God Intended For Us To Be Free. It Would Be Fitting And Good, I Think, If On Each Inaugural Day In Future Years It Should Be Declared A Day Of Prayer.

The Bible And Its Teachings Helped Form The Basis For The Founding Fathers' Abiding Belief In The Inalienable Rights Of The Individual, Rights Which They Found Implicit In The Bible's Teachings Of The Inherent Worth And Dignity Of Each Individual. This Same Sense Of Man Patterned The Convictions Of Those Who Framed The English System Of Law Inherited By Our Own Nation, As Well As The Ideals Set Forth In The Declaration Of Independence And The Constitution.

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

[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.

If Some Among You Fear Taking A Stand Because You Are Afraid Of Reprisals From Customers, Clients, Or Even Government, Recognize That You Are Just Feeding The Crocodile Hoping He'll Eat You Last.

Anytime You And I Question The Schemes Of The Do-gooders, We're Denounced As Being Against Their Humanitarian Goals. They Say We're Always "against" Things-we're Never "for" Anything. Well, The Trouble With Our Liberal Friends Is Not That They're Ignorant; It's Just That They Know So Much That Isn't So.

By 1980, We Knew It Was Time To Renew Our Faith, To Strive With All Our Strength Toward The Ultimate In Individual Freedom Consistent With An Orderly Society. We Believed Then And Now There Are No Limits To Growth And Human Progress When Men And Women Are Free To Follow Their Dreams.

We Intend To Keep The Peace - We Will Also Keep Our Freedom.

The American Dream Is Not That Every Man Must Be Level With Every Other Man. The American Dream Is That Every Man Must Be Free To Become Whatever God Intends He Should Become.

The White House Is The Leakiest Place I've Ever Been In. (on Special Measures To Ensure Secrecy Of Plans To Bomb Libya)

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

I've Always Believed That A Lot Of The Trouble In The World Would Disappear If We Were Talking To Each Other Instead Of About Each Other.

Freedom Is The Right To Question And Change The Established Way Of Doing Things.

Freedom Liberty

. . . And Always Remember That You Are Americans, And It Is Your Birthright To Dream Great Dreams In This Sweet And Blessed Land, Truly The Greatest, Freest, Strongest Nation On Earth.

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

Everyone Is A Liberal Until They Have Something To Conserve. Then They Become A Conservative.

The Founders Of The United Nations Sought To Replace A World At War With A World Of Civilized Order. They Hoped That A World Of Relentless Conflict Would Give Way To A New Era, One Where Freedom From Violence Prevailed.... But The Awful Truth Is That The Use Of Violence For Political Gain Has Become More, Not Less, Widespread In The Last Decade.

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

Freedom Is The Very Essence Of Our Nation. To Be Sure, Ours Is Not A Perfect Nation. But Even With Our Troubles, We Remain The Beacon Of Hope For Oppressed Peoples Everywhere. Never Give Up The Fight For Freedom - A Fight Which, Though It May Never End, Is The Most Ennobling Known To Man.

Were Not Cutting The Budget Simply For The Sake Of Sounder Financial Management. This Is Only A First Step Toward Returning Power To The States And Communities, Only A First Step Toward Reordering The Relationship Between Citizen And Government.

The Freedom Of Thought And Action We Americans Enjoy Today Seems As Natural As The Air We Breathe. But There Is A Danger We May Take This Freedom For Granted. We Must Never Forget It Was Bought For Us At A Great Price. The Brave And Resourceful Americans Whose Sacrifices Gained Our Independence And Preserved It For More Than 200 Years Against Formidable Foes Have Set An Example Of Unflinching Loyalty To The Ideal Of Liberty And Justice For All.

Justice For All

The Taxpayer - That's Someone Who Works For The Federal Government But Doesn't Have To Take The Civil Service Examination.

Unless Bureaucracy Is Constantly Resisted, It Breaks Down Representative Government And Overwhelms Democracy.

I Oppose Registration For The Draft... Because I Believe The Security Of Freedom Can Best Be Achieved By Security Through Freedom.

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

The Signs Of The Vietnam War Protestors Said "make Love Not War!" It Didn't Seem To Me That They Were Capable Of Either.

I Sometimes Think If Someone Appealed The Ten Commandments To Some Of Our Courts, They Would Rule - 'thou Shalt Not, Unless You Feel Strongly To The Contrary'.

Christmas Can Be Celebrated In The School Room With Pine Trees, Tinsel And Reindeers, But There Must Be No Mention Of The Man Whose Birthday Is Being Celebrated. One Wonders How A Teacher Would Answer If A Student Asked Why It Was Called Christmas.

The Nine Most Terrifying Words In The English Language Are "i'm From The Government, And I'm Here To Help."

By Emphasizing The Importance Of A Common Language, We Safeguard A Proud Legacy And Help To Ensure That America's Future Will Be As Great As Her Past.

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

Individual Liberty Depends Upon Keeping Government Under Control.

Simple Morality Dictates That Unless And Until Someone Can Prove The Unborn Human Is Not Alive, We Must Give It The Benefit Of The Doubt And Assume It Is (alive). And, Thus, It Should Be Entitled To Life, Liberty And The Pursuit Of Happiness.

Pursuit Of Happiness

If The Federal Government Had Been Around When The Creator Was Putting His Hand To This State, Indiana Wouldn't Be Here. It'd Still Be Waiting For An Environmental Impact Statement.

Ours Was The First Revolution In The History Of Mankind That Truly Reversed The Course Of Government, And With Three Little Words: 'we The People.' 'we The People' Tell The Government What To Do, It Doesn't Tell Us. 'we The People' Are The Driver, The Government Is The Car. And We Decide Where It Should Go, And By What Route, And How Fast. Almost All The World's Constitutions Are Documents In Which Governments Tell The People What Their Privileges Are. Our Constitution Is A Document In Which 'we The People' Tell The Government What It Is Allowed To Do. 'we The People' Are Free.

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.

I Notice That All Of The People Who Support Abortion Are Already Born.

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

When Government Gets Too Big, Freedom Is Lost. Government Is Supposed To Be The Servant. But When A Government Can Tax The People With No Limit Or Restraint On What The Government Can Take, Then The Government Has Become The Master.

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.

We're Not Just Discussing Limits On A Further Increase Of Nuclear Weapons; We Seek, Instead, To Reduce Their Number. We Seek The Total Elimination One Day Of Nuclear Weapons From The Face Of The Earth.

The Bill's A Textbook Example Of Special Interest Pork Barrel Politics At Work, And I Have No Choice But To Veto It.

California Produces 40% Of America's Fresh Fruits, Vegetables And Nuts - The Kind You Eat. We Have Had A Bumper Crop Of The Other Variety, Too.

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

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

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.

Freedom Is One Of The Deepest And Noblest Aspirations Of The Human Spirit.

F You Analyze It I Believe The Very Heart And Soul Of Conservatism Is Libertarianism. I Think Conservatism Is Really A Misnomer Just As Liberalism Is A Misnomer For The Liberals - If We Were Back In The Days Of The Revolution, So-called Conservatives Today Would Be The Liberals And The Liberals Would Be The Tories. The Basis Of Conservatism Is A Desire For Less Government Interference Or Less Centralized Authority Or More Individual Freedom And This Is A Pretty General Description Also Of What Libertarianism Is.

The Problem Is Not That People Are Taxed Too Little, The Problem Is That Government Spends Too Much.

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

All The Waste In A Year From A Nuclear Power Plant Can Be Stored Under A Desk.

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

Preservation Of Our Environment Is Not A Liberal Or Conservative Challenge, It's Common Sense.

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.

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.

You And I, As Individuals, Can, By Borrowing, Live Beyond Our Means, But For Only A Limited Period Of Time. Why, Then, Should We Think That Collectively, As A Nation, We're Not Bound By That Same Limitation? We Must Act Today In Order To Preserve Tomorrow.

And Children, If Your Parents Haven't Been Teaching You What It Means To Be An American, Let 'em Know And Nail 'em On It. That Would Be A Very American Thing To Do.

Someone Must Stand Up To Those Who Say, "here's The Key, There's The Treasury, Just Take As Many Of Those Hard-earned Tax Dollars As You Want."

If We've Learned Any Lessons During The Past Few Decades, Perhaps The Most Important Is That Preservation Of Our Environment Is Not A Partisan Challenge; It's Common Sense. Our Physical Health, Our Social Happiness, And Our Economic Well-being Will Be Sustained Only By All Of Us Working In Partnership As Thoughtful, Effective Stewards Of Our Natural Resources.

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.

A Stronger Defense Is An Investment In Peace.

By Working Together, Pooling Our Resources And Building On Our Strengths, We Can Accomplish Great Things.

Working Together

Through The History Of Our Nation, Americans Have Always Extended Their Hands In Gestures Of Assistance.

It Would Seem That Not Only Is Religion Lacking In The Schools - So Is Common Sense. I Wonder What A Teacher Is Supposed To Say If A Kid Asks About Those Four Words On A Dime - 'in God We Trust.' Or Maybe That's Why They Aren't Being Taught How To Read These Days.

Freedom Prospers When Religion Is Vibrant And The Rule Of Law Under God Is Acknowledged.

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

In Closing, Let Me Thank You, The American People, For Giving Me The Great Honor Of Allowing Me To Serve As Your President. When The Lord Calls Me Home, Whenever That Day May Be, I Will Leave With The Greatest Love For This Country Of Ours And Eternal Optimism For Its Future. I Now Begin The Journey That Will Lead Me Into The Sunset Of My Life. I Know That For America There Will Always Be A Bright Dawn Ahead.

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.

Wouldn't It Be Better For The Human Spirit And For The Soul Of This Nation To Encourage People To Accept More Responsibility To Care For Each Other Rather Than Leaving Those Tasks To Paid Bureaucrats.

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.

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

A Small Nation, Faced With The Denial Of Its Sovereignty — Indeed, Of Its Very Existence — Reminded Us That The Price Of Freedom Is High But Never So Costly As The Loss Of Freedom.

Price Of Freedom

Our Nation Was Built And Civilized By Men And Women Who Used Guns In Self-defense And In Pursuit Of Peace. One Wonders Indeed, If The Rising Crime Rate, Isn't Due As Much As Anything To The Criminal's Instinctive Knowledge That The Average Victim No Longer Has Means Of Self-protection.

If You Want More Of Something, Subsidize It; If You Want Less Of Something, Tax It.

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.

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.

With Freedom Goes Responsibility, A Responsibility That Can Only Be Met By The Individual Himself.

Either [jesus] Was What He Said He Was Or He Was The World's Greatest Liar. It Is Impossible For Me To Believe A Liar Or Charlatan Could Have Had The Effect On Mankind That He Has Had For 2000 Years. We Could Ask, Would Even The Greatest Of Liars Carry His Lie Through The Crucifixion, When A Simple Confession Would Have Saved Him? ... Did He Allow Us The Choice... To Believe In His Teaching But Reject His Statements About His Own Identity?

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.

Information Is The Oxygen Of The Modern Age.

I Favor The Civil Rights Act Of 1964 And It Must Be Enforced At Gunpoint If Necessary.

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.

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.

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.

America Is To Great To Dream Small Dreams.

Our American Tradition Of Neighbor Helping Neighbor Has Always Been One Of Our Greatest Strengths And Most Noble Traditions.

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

Blondes Have The Hottest Kisses. Red-heads Are Fair-to-middling Torrid, And Brunettes Are The Frigidest Of All. It's Something To Do With Hormones, No Doubt.

Mr. Gorbachev, Tear Down This Wall. And Get A Massage - You Look Really Stressed

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.

Isn't Our Choice Really Not One Of Left Or Right, But Of Up Or Down? Down Through The Welfare State To Statism, To More And More Government Largesse Accompanied Always By More Government Authority, Less Individual Liberty, And Ultimately, Totalitarianism, Always Advanced As For Our Own Good. The Alternative Is The Dream Conceived By Our Founding Fathers, Up To The Ultimate In Individual Freedom Consistent With An Orderly Society.

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.

Baseball Is Our National Pastime, That Is If You Discount Political Campaigning.

. . . Government Should Do Only Those Things The People Cannot Do For Themselves.

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.

For A Time, We Forgot The American Dream Isn't One Of Making Government Bigger, It's Keeping Faith With The Mighty Spirit Of Free People Under God

In Some Dim Beginning, Man Created The Institution Of Government As A Convenience For Himself. And, Ever Since That Time, Government Has Been Doing Its Best To Become An Inconvenience.

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.

You Hear A Lot Of Jokes Every Once In A While About 'silent Cal Coolidge.' The Joke Is On The People Who Make The Jokes. Look At His Record. He Cut The Taxes Four Times. We Had Probably The Greatest Growth And Prosperity That We've Ever Known. I Have Taken Heed Of That Because If He Did That By Doing Nothing, Maybe That's The Answer.

The Same Government That Requires A Taxpaying Citizen To Document Every Statement On His Tax Return Decrees That Questioning A Welfare Applicant Demeans And Humiliates Him.

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.

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.

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.

Bureaucracy Is Adept At Protecting Its Nest.

Today We Did What We Had To Do. They Counted On America To Be Passive. They Counted Wrong.

[andrew Jackson] Was Actually 70 Years Old When He Left The White House

Labor Force Needs And Economic Conditions Are Disregarded In Our Policies. Many Aspects Of Our Current Policies And Procedures Are Patently Wrong. For Example, Legal Immigration Has Almost No Link To U.s. Employment Needs Or Economic Conditions.

Policies And Procedures

Seventy-five Years Ago I Was Born In Tampico, Illinois, In A Little Flat Above The Bank Building. We Didn't Have Any Other Contact With The Bank Than That.

The Federal Government Did Not Create The States; The States Created The Federal Government.

Federal Government

If There's One Thing The American People Aren't Lacking, It Is Courage.

Most Of My Dreams Came True.

Dreams Came True

Government Is The People's Business And Every Man, Woman And Child Becomes A Shareholder With The First Penny Of Tax Paid.

When I've Heard All I Need To Make A Decision, I Don't Take A Vote. I Make A Decision.

Doverey, No Proverey - Trust But Verify.

Good Citizenship And Defending Democracy Means Living Up To The Ideals And Values That Make This Country Great.

I Hope Americans Will Read And Study The Bible In The Coming Year. It's My Firm Belief That The Enduring Values, As I Say, Presented In Its Pages Have A Great Meaning For Each Of Us And For Our Nation.

I've Always Thought New Year's Day Was An Especially American Tradition, Full Of The Optimism And Hope We're Famous For In Our Daily Lives -- An Energy And Confidence We Call The American Spirit. Perhaps Because We Know We Control Our Own Destiny, We Believe Deep Down Inside That Working Together We Can Make Each New Year Better Than The Old.

We Do Not Deny Any Nation's Legitimate Interest In Security. But Protecting The Security Of One Nation By Robbing Another Of Its National Independence And National Traditions Is Not Legitimate. In The Long Run, It Is Not Even Secure.

If Our Planes Were Shot Down, Yes, They's Wake Me Right Away. If The Other Fellows' Were Shot Down, Why Wake Me Up?

American Politics

America Is A Melting Pot, And Education Has Been A Mainspring For Our Democracy And Freedom, A Means Of Providing Gifts Of Knowledge And Opportunity To All Citizens, No Matter How Humble Their Background, So They Could Climb Higher, Help Build The American Dream, And Leave A Better Life For Those Who Follow.

Freedom Is One Of The Deepest And Noblest Aspirations Of The Human Spirit. People, Worldwide, Hunger For The Right Of Self-determination, For Those Inalienable Rights That Make For Human Dignity And Progress. 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. Every Blow We Inflict Against Poverty Will Be A Blow Against Its Dark Allies Of Oppression And War. Every Victory For Human Freedom Will Be A Victory For World Peace.

The Time Has Come To Match Outgo To Income, Instead Of Always Doing It The Other Way Around.

Accepting A Government Grant With Its Accompanying Rules Is Like Marrying A Girl And Finding Out Her Entire Family Is Moving In With You Before The Honeymoon.

Our Nation Will Prosper Or Decline In Direct Proportion To Our Selection Of Leaders Who Are Guided By The Holy Spirit. If We Fail To Select Godly Leaders Our Destiny Will Surely Be As That Of The Roman Empire.

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

Presidents Come And Go. History Comes And Goes, But Principles Endure.

Millions Of Individuals Making Their Own Decisions In The Marketplace Will Always Allocate Resources Better Than Any Centralized Government Planning Process.

We Cannot Escape Our Destiny, Nor Should We Try To Do So. The Leadership Of The Free World Was Thrust Upon Us Two Centuries Ago In That Little Hall Of Philadelphia. In The Days Following World War Ii, When The Economic Strength And Power Of America Was All That Stood Between The World And The Return To The Dark Ages, Pope Pius Xii Said, 'the American People Have A Great Genius For Splendid And Unselfish Actions. Into The Hands Of America God Has Placed The Destinies Of An Afflicted Mankind.' We Are Indeed, And We Are Today, The Last Best Hope Of Man On Earth.

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

Politics And Morality Are Inseparable. And As Morality's Foundation Is Religion, Religion And Politics Are Necessarily Related. We Need Religion As A Guide. We Need It Because We Are Imperfect, And Our Government Needs The Church, Because Only Those Humble Enough To Admit They're Sinners Can Bring To Democracy The Tolerance It Requires In Order To Survive.

I'm No Linguist, But I Have Been Told That In The Russian Language, There Isn't Even A Word For Freedom.

Russian Language

Many A Man Has Failed Because He Had His Wishbone Where His Backbone Should Have Been.

With All This Talk About The Supposed Strain In Relations [with The Soviet Union], There Is An Inference That Somehow It Is Our Fault. But We Didn't Kill Russian Civilians By Shooting Down A Civilian Airplane. We Didn't Attempt To Conquer An Adjacent Country To Ours. We Didn't Walk Out On Negotiations And Refuse To Give A Date For When We Would Resume.

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

I Want To Talk About Political And Economic Fairy Tales.

Our Goal Is Peace. We Can Gain That Peace By Strengthening Our Alliances, By Speaking Candidly About The Dangers Before Us, By Assuring Potential Adversaries Of Our Seriousness, By Actively Pursuing Every Chance Of Honest And Fruitful Negotiation.

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

Do What's Right And You'll Please Some Of The People And Astound The Rest.

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.

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

A Strong Nation Is One That Is Loved By Its People And, As Edmund Burke Put It, For A Country To Be Loved It Ought To Be Lovely.

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