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Where Others Fear Trade And Economic Growth, We See Opportunities For Creating New Wealth And Undreamed-of Opportunities For Millions In Our Own Land And Beyond. Where Others Seek To Throw Up Barriers, We Seek To Bring Them Down; Where Others Take Counsel Of Their Fears, We Follow Our Hopes.

-Ronald Reagan

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Where Others Fear Trade

Ronald Reagan

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Where Others Fear Trade And Economic Growth, We See Opportunities For Creating New Wealth And Undreamed-of Opportunities For Millions In Our Own Land And Beyond. Where Others Seek To Throw Up Barriers, We Seek To Bring Them Down; Where Others Take Counsel Of Their Fears, We Follow Our Hopes.

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The Federal Reserve Is Answerable To No One.

Federal Reserve

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We Don't Celebrate Dependence Day On The Fourth Of July. We Celebrate Independence Day.

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

Yet Optimism Is In Order, Because Day By Day Democracy Is Proving Itself To Be A Not-at-all-fragile Flower. From Stettin On The Baltic To Varna On The Black Sea, The Regimes Planted By Totalitarianism Have Had More Than 30 Years To Establish Their Legitimacy. But None - Not One Regime - Has Yet Been Able To Risk Free Elections. Regimes Planted By Bayonets Do Not Take Root.

The Founders Of The United Nations Expected That Member Nations Would Behave And Vote As Individuals After They Had Weighed The Merits Of An Issue - Rather Like A Great, Global Town Meeting. The Emergence Of Blocks And The Polarization Of The United Nations Undermine All That This Organization Initially Valued.

It's All Part Of Taking A Chance And Expanding Man's Horizons. The Future Doesn't Belong To The Fainthearted; It Belongs To The Brave.

Education Is Not The Means Of Showing People How To Get What They Want. Education Is An Exercise By Means Of Which Enough Men, It Is Hoped, Will Learn To Want What Is Worth Having.

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.

If You Think You Can - You Can!

When The Labor Department Is Forced To Relent And Let These Visitors Do This Work It Is Of Course All Legal. But It Makes One Wonder About The Illegal Alien Fuss. Are Great Numbers Of Our Unemployed Really Victims Of The Illegal Alien Invasion Or Are Those Illegal Tourists Actually Doing Work Our Own People Won't Do? One Thing Is Certain In This Hungry World; No Regulation Or Law Should Be Allowed If It Results In Crops Rotting In The Field For Lack Of Harvesters.

I Believe The Highest Aspiration Of Man Should Be Individual Freedom And The Development Of The Individual.

Although I Held Public Office For A Total Of Sixteen Years, I Also Thought Of Myself As A Citizen-politician, Not A Career One. Every Now And Then When I Was In Government, I Would Remind My Associates That "when We Start Thinking Of Government As 'us' Instead Of 'them,' We've Been Here Too Long." By That I Mean That Elected Officeholders Need To Retain A Certain Skepticism About The Perfectibility Of Government.

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

Our Liberties, Our Values, All For Which America Stands Is Safe Today Because Brave Men And Women Have Been Ready To Face The Fire At Freedom's Front. And We Thank God For Them.

Make No Mistake, Abortion-on-demand Is Not A Right Granted By The Constitution. No Serious Scholar, Including One Disposed To Agree With The Court's Result, Has Argued That The Framers Of The Constitution Intended To Create Such A Right.

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

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.

But There Are Advantages To Being Elected President. The Day After I Was Elected, I Had My High School Grades Classified Top Secret.

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

There Are Worse Things To Be Called Than A Dreamer.

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.

In This New World Economy, National Boundaries Are Increasingly Becoming Obsolete.

The Great Dynamic Success Of Capitalism Had Given Us A Powerful Weapon In Our Battle Against Communism-money.

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

You And I Have A Rendezvous With Destiny. We Will Preserve For Our Children This, The Last Best Hope Of Man On Earth, Or We Will Sentence Them To Take The First Step Into A Thousand Years Of Darkness. If We Fail, At Least Let Our Children And Our Children’s Children Say Of Us We Justified Our Brief Moment Here. We Did All That Could Be Done.

Unless And Until It Can Be Proven That An Unborn Child Is Not A Living Human Being, Can We Justify Assuming Without Proof That It Isn't? No One Has Yet Offered Such Proof; Indeed, All The Evidence Is To The Contrary.

Cars Don't Cause Pollution, Trees Do.

You And I Know And Do Not Believe That Life Is So Dear And Peace So Sweet As To Be Purchased At The Price Of Chains And Slavery. If Nothing In Life Is Worth Dying For, When Did This Begin-just In The Face Of This Enemy? Or Should Moses Have Told The Children Of Israel To Live In Slavery Under The Pharaohs? Should Christ Have Refused The Cross? Should The Patriots At Concord Bridge Have Thrown Down Their Guns And Refused To Fire The Shot Heard 'round The World? The Martyrs Of History Were Not Fools, And Our Honored Dead Who Gave Their Lives To Stop The Advance Of The Nazis Didn't Die In Vain.

The Declaration Of Independence And The Constitution Of These United States Are Covenants We Have Made Not Only With Ourselves, But With All Mankind. Our Founding Documents Proclaim To The World That Freedom Is Not The Sole Prerogative Of A Chosen Few. It Is The Universal Right Of All God's Children.

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.

It Was The Hard Work Of Our People, The Freedom They Enjoyed And Their Faith In God That Built This Country And Made It The Envy Of The World. In All Of Our Great Cities And Towns Evidence Of The Faith Of Our People Is Found: Houses Of Worship Of Every Denomination Are Among The Oldest Structures. While Never Willing To Bow To A Tyrant, Our Forefathers Were Always Willing To Get To Their Knees Before God. When Catastrophe Threatened, They Turned To God For Deliverance. When The Harvest Was Bountiful The First Thought Was Thanksgiving To God.

Man Is Not Free Unless Government Is Limited.

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.

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.

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

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