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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.

-Ronald Reagan

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Ronald Reagan

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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.

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

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Our Leaders Must Remember That Education Doesn't Begin With Some Isolated Bureaucrat In Washington. It Doesn't Even Begin With State Or Local Officials. Education Begins In The Home, Where It Is A Parental Right And Responsibility.

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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.

I Know That For America There Will Always Be A Bright Dawn Ahead.

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.

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

Isn't It Strange That ... People Build Walls To Keep An Enemy Out, And There's Only One Part Of The World And One Philosophy Where They Have To Build Walls To Keep Their People In

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

For The People Of Israel And America Are Historic Partners In The Global Quest For Human Dignity And Freedom. We Will Always Remain At Each Other's Side.

There Is Purpose And Worth To Each And Every Life.

We Can Look Forward To The Day When The Free Flow Of Trade, From The Southern Reaches Of Tierra Del Fuego To The Northern Outposts Of The Arctic Circle, Unites The People Of The Western Hemisphere In A Bond Of Mutually Beneficial Exchange, When All Borders Become What The U.s.-canadian Border So Long Has Been: A Meeting Place, Rather Than A Dividing Line.

Balancing Your Budget Is Like Protecting Your Virtue. You Have To Learn When To Say No.

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You On The Cutting Edge Of Technology Have Already Made Yesterday's Impossibilities The Commonplace Realities Of Today.

To Those Who Cite The First Amendment As Reason For Excluding God From More And More Of Our Institutions And Everyday Life, May I Just Say: The First Amendment Of The Constitution Was Not Written To Protect The People Of This Country From Religious Values; It Was Written To Protect Religious Values From Government Tyranny.

Through You, We Feel As Giants, Once Again.

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.

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.

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

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I Know That It Is Often Difficult To Stand Up For One's Beliefs When They Are Being Harshly Challenged. But As One Who Has Seen Many Challenges Over A Long Lifetime, I Can Assure You That Personal Faith And Conviction Are Strengthened, Not Weakened, In Adversity.

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.

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

There Are Those, Of Course, Who Claim We Must Give Up Freedom In Exchange For Economic Progress. Well, Pardon Me, But Anyone Trying To Sell You That Line Is No Better Than A Three-card-trick Man. One Thing Becoming More Clear Every Day Is That Freedom And Progress Go Hand In Hand. Throughout The Developing World, People Are Rejecting Socialism Because They See That It Doesn't Empower People, It Impoverishes Them.

Government Is Not A Solution To Our Problem Government Is The Problem.

The Bible And Its Teachings Helped Form The Basis For The Founding Fathers' Abiding Belief In The Inalienable Rights Of The Individual.

Abortion Is Advocated Only By Persons Who Have Themselves Been Born.

I'm Not A Politician By Profession. I Am A Citizen Who Decided I Had To Be Personally Involved.

Government Steals From The Needy And Gives To The Greedy

The District Of Columbia Is One Gigantic Ear.

There Are Many Well-meaning People Today Who Work At Placing An Economic Floor Beneath All Of Us So That No One Shall Exist Below A Certain Level Or Standard Of Living, And Certainly We Don't Quarrel With This. But Look More Closely And You May Find That All Too Often These Well-meaning People Are Building A Ceiling Above Which No One Shall Be Permitted To Climb And Between The Two Are Pressing Us All Into Conformity, Into A Mold Of Standardized Mediocrity.

Illegal Immigrants In Considerable Numbers Have Become Productive Members Of Our Society And Are A Basic Part Of Our Work Force. Those Who Have Established Equities In The United States Should Be Recognized And Accorded Legal Status. At The Same Time, In So Doing, We Must Not Encourage Illegal Immigration.

I Don't Have Too Much Time For Fiction.

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

We Need True Tax Reform That Will At Least Make A Start Toward Restoring For Our Children The American Dream That Wealth Is Denied To No One, That Each Individual Has The Right To Fly As High As His Strength And Ability Will Take Him.

Supporters Of This Fundamental Change In Immigration Policy Say We Need To Import More Well-educated Talent If We're To Stay Competitive. But Exactly Whose Competitiveness Are We Talking About? Not The Competitiveness Of, Say, American-born Computer Engineers. Adjusted For Inflation, Their Earnings Haven't Gone Anywhere In Years. That's In Part Because American Companies Have Been Sending So Much Of Their High-tech Work Abroad. Bringing More Foreign-born Engineers Here Under An Expanded H1-b Visa Program, Or A Point System For That Matter, Will Just Depress Wages Even Further.

. . . I Hope That When You're My Age, You'll Be Able To Say As I Have Been Able To Say: We Lived In Freedom, We Lived Lives That Were A Statement, Not An Apology.

I Told You Once That [our Marriage] Was Like An Adolescent's Dream Of What Marriage Should Be Like. That Hasn't Changed.

It's Said That Prayer Can Move Mountains. Well, It's Certainly Moved The Hearts And Minds Of Americans In Their Times Of Trial And Helped Them To Achieve A Society That, For All Its Imperfections, Is Still The Envy Of The World And The Last, Best Hope Of Mankind.

I've Often Wondered About The Shyness Of Some Of Us In The West About Standing For These Ideals That Have Done So Much To Ease The Plight Of Man And The Hardships Of Our Imperfect World. Let Us Be Shy No Longer. Let Us Go To Our Strength. Let Us Offer Hope. Let Us Tell The World That A New Age Is Not Only Possible, But Probable.

We Are A Nation That Has A Government-not The Other Way Around. And That Makes Us Special Among The Nations Of The Earth.

We're Looking Forward To A Great Season At The University Of California - If We Find A Way To Put Cleats On Their Sandals.

We Are Not A Warlike People. Nor Is Our History Filled With Tales Of Aggressive Adventures And Imperialism, Which Might Come As A Shock To Some Of The Placard Painters In Our Modern Demonstrations. The Lesson Of Vietnam, I Think, Should Be That Never Again Will Young Americans Be Asked To Fight And Possibly Die For A Cause Unless That Cause Is So Meaningful That We, As A Nation, Pledge Our Full Resources To Achieve Victory As Quickly As Possible.

I'll Be Like Scarlett O'hara-i'll Think About It Tomorrow.

Our System Freed The Individual Genius Of Man. Released Him To Fly As High & As Far As His Own Talent & Energy Would Take Him. We Allocate Resources Not By Government. Decision But By The Millions Of Decisions Customers Make When They Go Into The Market. Place To Buy. If Something Seems Too High-priced We Buy Something Else. Thus Resources Are Steered Toward Those Things The People Want Most At The Price They Are Willing To Pay. It May Not Be A Perfect System But It's Better Than Any Other That's Ever Been Tried.

I'm Beginning To Wonder If The Symbol Of The United States Pretty Soon Isn't Going To Be An Ambassador With A Flag Under His Arm Climbing Into An Escape Helicopter.

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.

Here's My Strategy On The Cold War: We Win, They Lose.

Politics Is, For Me, Forgive And -as You May Have Heard- Sometimes Forget.

There's No Question I Am An Idealist, Which Is Another Way Of Saying 'i Am An American.'

The American People Aren't Overtaxed. The Government In Washington Is Overfed. The Main Difference Between Ourselves And The Other Side Is: We See An America Where Every Day Is The Fourth Of July. They See An America Where Every Day Is April 15.

I Don't Believe In A Government That Protects Us From Ourselves.

When I Took The Oath Of Office, I Pledged Loyalty To Only One Special Interest Group - ‘we The People’.

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

The Family Has Always Been The Cornerstone Of American Society. Our Families Nurture, Preserve, And Pass On To Each Succeeding Generation The Values We Share And Cherish, Values That Are The Foundation Of Our Freedoms.

Inflation Is As Violent As A Mugger, As Frightening As An Armed Robber And As Deadly As A Hit Man.

In A World Wracked By Hatred, Economic Crisis, And Political Tension, America Remains Mankind's Best Hope.

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