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We're Resolved Tonight That Young Americans Will Always See Those Potomac Lights, That They Will Always Find Here A City Of Hope In A Country That's Free So That When Other Generations Look Back At This Conservative Era In American Politics And Our Time In Power, They'll Say Of Us That We Did Hold True To That Dream Of Joseph Winthrop And Joseph Warren, That We Did Keep Faith With Our God, That We Did Act Worthy Of Ourselves, That We Did Protect And Pass On Lovingly That Shining City On A Hill.

-Ronald Reagan

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We're Resolved Tonight That

Ronald Reagan

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We're Resolved Tonight That Young Americans Will Always See Those Potomac Lights, That They Will Always Find Here A City Of Hope In A Country That's Free So That When Other Generations Look Back At This Conservative Era In American Politics And Our Time In Power, They'll Say Of Us That We Did Hold True To That Dream Of Joseph Winthrop And Joseph Warren, That We Did Keep Faith With Our God, That We Did Act Worthy Of Ourselves, That We Did Protect And Pass On Lovingly That Shining City On A Hill.

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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.

Government Can And Must Provide Opportunity, Not Smother It; Foster Productivity; Not Stifle It.

The Criminal Element Now Calculates That Crime Really Does Pay.

History Shows That When The Taxes Of A Nation Approach About 20 Percent Of The People's Income, There Begins To Be A Lack Of Respect For Government.... When It Reaches 25 Percent, There Comes An Increase In Lawlessness.

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.

Governments Don't Reduce Deficits By Raising Taxes On The People; Governments Reduce Deficits By Controlling Spending And Stimulating New Wealth.

A State Is Nothing More Than A Reflection Of Its Citizens; The More Decent The Citizens, The More Decent The State.

Some May Try To Tell Us That This Is The End Of An Era. But What They Overlook Is That In America, Every Day Is A New Beginning. For This Is The Land That Has Never Become, But Is Always In The Act Of Becoming.

It Should Be The Right Of The Individual To Decide Whether He Wants To Belong To A Union.

This Is Not To Say That The Government Should Confiscate From The "haves" And Bestow Upon The "have-nots", Beyond The Requirements Of A Compassionate Welfare Program To Provide For Those Who Cannot Provide For Themselves. Far From It. But It Is To Say That Our Duty Is To Foster A Strong, Vibrant Wealth-producing Economy Which Operates In Such A Way That New Additions To Wealth Accrue To Those Who Presently Have Little Or No Ownership Stake In Their Country.

If You're Explaining, You're Losing.

Politics Is Just Like Show Business. You Have A Hell Of An Opening, Coast For A While, And Then Have A Hell Of A Close.

To Paraphrase Winston Churchill, I Did Not Take The Oath I Have Just Taken With The Intention Of Presiding Over The Dissolution Of The World's Strongest Economy.

I, In My Own Mind, Have Always Thought Of America As A Place In The Divine Scheme Of Things That Was Set Aside As A Promised Land...any Person With The Courage, With The Desire To Tear Up Their Roots, To Strive For Freedom, To Attempt And Dare To Live In A Strange And Foreign Place, To Travel Halfway Across The World Was Welcome Here.

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

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.

If History Teaches Anything, It Teaches That Self-delusion In The Face Of Unpleasant Facts Is Folly.

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.

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.

For The Average American, The Message Is Clear. Liberalism Is No Longer The Answer. It Is The Problem.

An Informed Patriotism Is What We Want.

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

The Purpose Of America Is To Unleash The Full Talent And Genius Of Every Individual.

We Can't Help Everyone, But Everyone Can Help Someone.

Evil Is Powerless If The Good Are Unafraid.

I Just Wanted To Speak To You About Something From The Internal Revenue Code. It Is The Last Sentence Of Section 509a Of The Code And It Reads: 'for Purposes Of Paragraph 3, An Organization Described In Paragraph 2 Shall Be Deemed To Include An Organization Described In Section 501c-4, 5, Or 6, Which Would Be Described In Paragraph 2 If It Were An Organization Described In Section 501c-3.' And That's Just One Sentence Out Of Those Fifty-seven Feet Of Books.

Freedom Is Indivisible - There Is No "s" On The End Of It. You Can Erode Freedom, Diminish It, But You Cannot Divide It And Choose To Keep "some Freedoms" While Giving Up Others.

Fascism Was Really The Basis For The New Deal. It Was Mussolini's Success In Italy, With His Government-directed Economy, That Led The Early New Dealers To Say "but Mussolini Keeps The Trains Running On Time.

. . . 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.

I Have Only One Thing To Say To The Tax Increasers: Go Ahead, Make My Day.

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.

The Arts And Humanities Teach Us Who We Are And What We Can Be. They Lie At The Very Core Of The Culture Of Which We're A Part.

The United States Trades More With The Province Of Ontario Alone Than With Japan.

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.

There Was A Time When "sound As A Dollar" Was A Description, Not A Joke.

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.

You Can't Be For Big Government, Big Taxes And Big Bureaucracy And Still Be For The Little Guy.

I Am Very Proud To Be Called A Pig. It Stands For Pride, Integrity And Guts.

We're Told About A Woman's Right To Control Her Own Body. But Doesn't The Unborn Child Have A Higher Right, And That Is To Life, Liberty, And The Pursuit Of Happiness?

Pursuit Of Happiness

Diplomacy, Of Course, Is A Subtle And Nuanced Craft, So Much So That It's Said That When The Most Wily Diplomat Of The Nineteenth-century Passed Away, Other Diplomats Asked, On Reports Of His Death, "what Do You Suppose The Old Fox Meant By That?

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 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.

Our Reluctance For Conflict Should Not Be Misjudged As A Failure Of Will.

We're Entering Our Third Century Now, But It's Wrong To Judge Our Nation By Its Years. The Calendar Can't Measure America Because We Were Meant To Be An Endless Experiment In Freedom, With No Limits To Our Reaches, No Boundaries To What We Can Do, No End Point To Our Hopes.

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