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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.

-Ronald Reagan

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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.

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Concentrated Power Has Always Been The Enemy Of Liberty. Democracy Is Worth Dying For, Because It's The Most Deeply Honorable Form Of Government Ever Devised By Man.entrepreneurs And Their Small Enterprises Are Responsible For Almost All The Economic Growth In The United States.

When The Lives Of The Unborn Are Snuffed Out, They Often Feel Pain, Pain That Is Long And Agonizing.

The Criminal Element Now Calculates That Crime Really Does Pay.

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If It Takes A Bloodbath Now Let's Get It Over With.

Freedom Is Never More Than One Generation Away From Extinction.

Information Is The Oxygen Of The Modern Age. It Seeps Through The Walls Topped By Barbed Wire, It Wafts Across The Electrified Borders.

We Are At War With The Most Dangerous Enemy That Has Ever Faced Mankind In His Long Climb From The Swamp To The Stars, And It Has Been Said If We Lose That War, And In So Doing Lose This Way Of Freedom Of Ours, History Will Record With The Greatest Astonishment That Those Who Had The Most To Lose Did The Least To Prevent Its Happening.

If I Thought There Was Some Reason To Be Concerned About Them, I Wouldn't Be Sleeping In This House Tonight. (when Asked About Continued Presence Of Soviet Nuclear Submarines Along Us Coastlines)

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Show Me An Executive That Works Long Hard Hours And I'll Show You A Bad Executive.

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

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I Would Have Voted Against The Civil Rights Act Of 1964.

If I'd Gotten The Job I Wanted At Montgomery Ward, I Suppose I Would Never Have Left Illinois.

Every Year, An Average Of 9,200 Americans Are Murdered By Handguns, According To Department Of Justice Statistics. This Does Not Include Suicides Or The Tens Of Thousands Of Robberies, Rapes And Assaults Committed With Handguns. This Level Of Violence Must Be Stopped.

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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.

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But I Also Happen To Be Someone Who Believes In Tithing--the Giving Of A Tenth .

When Our Founding Fathers Passed The First Amendment, They Sought To Protect Churches From Government Interference. They Never Intended To Construct A Wall Of Hostility Between Government And The Concept Of Religious Belief Itself.

You Are Worried About What Man Has Done And Is Doing To This Magical Planet That God Gave Us. And I Share Your Concern. What Is A Conservative After All But One Who Conserves, One Who Is Committed To Protecting And Holding Close The Things By Which We Live...and We Want To Protect And Conserve The Land On Which We Live - Our Countryside, Our Rivers And Mountains, Our Plains And Meadows And Forests. This Is Our Patrimony. This Is What We Leave To Our Children. And Our Great Moral Responsibility Is To Leave It To Them Either As We Found It Or Better Than We Found It.

During My First Press Conference As President, In Answer To A Direct Question, I Pointed Out That, As Good Marxist-leninists, The Soviet Leaders Have Openly And Publicly Declared That The Only Morality They Recognize Is That Which Will Further Their Cause, Which Is World Revolution.

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.

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

In An Atmosphere Of Liberty, Artists And Patrons Are Free To Think The Unthinkable And Create The Audacious; They Are Free To Make Both Horrendous Mistakes And Glorious Celebrations.

We Have Consistently Supported A Legalization Program Which Is Both Generous To The Alien And Fair To The Countless Thousands Of People Throughout The World Who Seek Legally To Come To America. The Legalization Provisions In This Act Will Go Far To Improve The Lives Of A Class Of Individuals Who Now Must Hide In The Shadows, Without Access To Many Of The Benefits Of A Free And Open Society. Very Soon Many Of These Men And Women Will Be Able To Step Into The Sunlight And, Ultimately, If They Choose, They May Become Americans.

The Nra Believes America's Laws Were Made To Be Obeyed And That Our Constitutional Liberties Are Just As Important Today As 200 Years Ago. And By The Way, The Constitution Does Not Say Government Shall Decree The Right To Keep And Bear Arms. The Constitution Says 'the Right Of The People To Keep And Bear Arms Shall Not Be Infringed.'

To Do Whatever Needs To Be Done To Preserve This Last And Greatest Bastion Of Freedom.

We've Been A Free People Living Under The Law, With Faith In Our Maker And In Our Future. I've Said Before That The Most Sublime Picture In American History Is Of George Washington On His Knees In The Snow At Valley Forge. That Image Personifies A People Who Know That It's Not Enough To Depend On Our Own Courage And Goodness; We Must Also Seek Help From God, Our Father And Preserver.

I Don't Know What I Expected, But My First Morning In The Oval Office Had A Surprising Ring Of Familiarity To It. It Reminded Me A Lot Of My Job As Governor.

Let Me Make Our Goal In This Program Very Clear: Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, And More Jobs. Our Policy Has Been And Will Continue To Be: What Is Good For The American Worker Is Good For America.

The Fourth Landing Of The Columbia Is The Historical Equivalent Of The Driving Of The Golden Spike Which Completed The First Transcontinental Railroad. It Marks Our Entrance Into A New Era.

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.

The Best Minds Are Not In Government. If Any Were, Business Would Steal Them Away.

Our Policy Is Simple: We Are Not Going To Betray Our Friends, Reward The Enemies Of Freedom, Or Permit Fear And Retreat To Become American Policies — Especially In This Hemisphere. None Of The Four Wars In My Lifetime Came About Because We Were Too Strong.

The Same Technology Transforming Our Lives Can Solve The Greatest Problem Of The 20th Century. A Security Shield Can One Day Render Nuclear Weapons Obsolete And Free Mankind From The Prison Of Nuclear Terror. America Met One Historic Challenge And Went To The Moon. Now America Must Meet Another: To Make Our Strategic Defense Real For All The Citizens Of Planet Earth.

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.

We've Gone Astray From First Principles. We've Lost Sight Of The Rule That Individual Freedom And Ingenuity Are At The Very Core Of Everything That We've Accomplished. Government's First Duty Is To Protect The People, Not Run Their Lives.

Congressional Mistakes Have Dramatically Increased Immigration Through A Series Of What I Believe Were Ill-advised Actions Going Back To 1965 When The Basic Notions Of Our Immigration Laws Were Revised. In 1990, Congress Opened The Floodgates By Passing A 35-percent Increase In Legal Immigration.

Evil Is Powerless If The Good Are Unafraid.

[write To Your Congressional Representative Against The Health Care Reform Proposal Or] We Will Awake To Find That We Have Socialism.

Conservatives Were Brought Up To Hate Deficits And Justifiably So. We've Long Thought There Are Two Things In Washington That Are Unbalanced - The Budget And The Liberals.

Great Nations Which Fail To Meet Their Responsibilities Are Consigned To The Dustbin Of History. We Grew From That Small, Weak Republic Which Had As Its Assets Spirit, Optimism, Faith In God And An Unshakeable Belief That Free Men And Women Could Govern Themselves Wisely. We Became The Leader Of The Free World, An Example For All Those Who Cherish Freedom.

Government Must Not Supersede The Will Of The People Or The Responsibilities Of The People. The Function Of Government Is Not To Confer Happiness, But To Give Men The Opportunity To Work Out Happiness For Themselves.

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