A people free to choose will always choose peace.
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Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.
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All great change in America begins at the dinner table.
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All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.
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Approximately 80% of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let's not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards from man-made sources.
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But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.
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Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.
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Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we've ever known.
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Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States.
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Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.
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Going to college offered me the chance to play football for four more years.
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Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.
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Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.
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Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.
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Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
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Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.
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Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
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Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.
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Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They're just braver five minutes longer.
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History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.
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How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.
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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.
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I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary.
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I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress.
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I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there's purpose and worth to each and every life.
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I'm not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself.
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I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a 'public-spirited philanthropist'.
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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.
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If the Soviet Union let another political party come into existence, they would still be a one-party state, because everybody would join the other party.
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If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.
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If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.
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Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.
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It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.
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It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't available.
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It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?
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Let us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is.
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Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.
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Man is not free unless government is limited.
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Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall!
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My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.
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My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose - somehow we win out.
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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!
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No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.
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Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.
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One picture is worth 1,000 denials.
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Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.
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Peace is not the absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.
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Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
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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.
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Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.
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Recession is when a neighbour loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.
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Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.
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Some people wonder all their lives if they've made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem.
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Status quo, you know, that is Latin for "the mess we're in."
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Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere as long as the policy you've decided upon is being carried out.
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Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere.
- Ronald Reagan Quote
The government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
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The greatest security for Israel is to create new Egypts.
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The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.
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The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.
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The thought of being President frightens me and I do not think I want the job.
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There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.
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There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.
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They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong.
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Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.
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To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last - but eat you he will.
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Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.
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Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.
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Violence has been Nicaragua's most important export to the world.
- Ronald Reagan Quote
We can not play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent.
- Ronald Reagan Quote
We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child.
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We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.
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We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.
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We're in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country.
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Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.
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Well, I learned a lot... I went down to Latin America to find out from them and (learn) their views. You'd be surprised. They're all individual countries.
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What we have found in this country, and maybe we're more aware of it now, is one problem that we've had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.
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While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.
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Within the covers of the Bible are all the answers for all the problems men face.
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Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.
- Ronald Reagan Quote
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by the way he eats jelly beans.
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You know, if I listened to Michael Dukakis long enough, I would be convinced we're in an economic downturn and people are homeless and going without food and medical attention and that we've got to do something about the unemployed.
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