Ronald Reagan quote: "I hope we once again have reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There's a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: As government expands, liberty contracts."

The totalitarian world produces backwardness because it does such violence to the spirit, thwarting ...
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We don't hide our space program. We don't keep secrets and cover things up. We do it all up ...
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Let us ask ourselves, 'What kind of people do we think we are?' And let us answer, 'Free...
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Let us be shy no longer. Let us go to our strength. Let us offer hope. Let us tell the world that a ...
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The British people know that, given strong leadership, time, and a little bit of hope, the forces of...
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Optimism comes less easily today, not because democracy is less vigorous, but because democracy'...
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Poland is not East or West. Poland is at the center of European civilization. It has contributed mig...
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You are Mrs. Reagan because Mr. Reagan loves you with all his heart.
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Mad or glad, Mr. Reagan is head over heels in love with Mrs. Reagan and can't even imagine a wor...
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People do not make wars; governments do.
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It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't ...
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No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ...
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Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very ...
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The greatest security for Israel is to create new Egypts.
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Latinos are Republican. They just don't know it yet.
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Violence has been Nicaragua's most important export to the world.
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To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with the intention of pre...
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If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, India...
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The thought of being President frightens me and I do not think I want the job.
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We should declare war on North Vietnam. We could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it...
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One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it.
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No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.
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You know, if I listened to Michael Dukakis long enough, I would be convinced we're in an economi...
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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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Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.
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The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take ...
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A people free to choose will always choose peace.
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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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Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the governm...
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I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them thro...
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We're in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutel...
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We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child.
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A tree's a tree. How many more do you need to look at?
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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 wo...
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I noticed words crudely spray-painted upon the wall, perhaps by a young Berliner: 'This wall wil...
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For the sake of peace and justice, let us move toward a world in which all people are at last free t...
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Today on the NATO line, our military forces face east to prevent a possible invasion. On the other s...
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Going to college offered me the chance to play football for four more years.
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It doesn't do good to open doors for someone who doesn't have the price to get in. If he has...
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If the Soviet Union let another political party come into existence, they would still be a one-party...
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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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They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong.
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I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Dem...
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It's silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we ...
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How can a president not be an actor?
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Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.
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One picture is worth 1,000 denials.
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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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Don't be afraid to see what you see.
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No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never dis...
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The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.
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Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works....
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Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everyth...
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The objective I propose is quite simple to state: to foster the infrastructure of democracy - the sy...
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The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know ...
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I've often said there's nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse.
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Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders.
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We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone.
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Facts are stubborn things.
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Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.
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I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there...
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Man is not free unless government is limited.
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Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever dev...
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Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They're just braver five minutes longer.
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Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!
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We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we will always be f...
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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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To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the cr...
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Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.
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Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere as ...
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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...
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Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement.
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Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.
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I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn thei...
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Some people wonder all their lives if they've made a difference. The Marines don't have that...
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There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know...
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Let us ask ourselves; What kind of people do we think we are?
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In my eighty years, I prefer to call that the forty-first anniversary of my thirty ninth birthday, I...
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So in your discussions of the nuclear freeze proposals, I urge you to beware the temptation of pride...
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History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap. To keep t...
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If I'd gotten the job I wanted at Montgomery Ward, I suppose I would never have left Illinois.I've o...
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It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?
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To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the cr...
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Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards. If you disgrace yourself, y...
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We are participating in the orderly transfer of administrative authority by the direction of the peo...
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It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't availabl...
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Double, no triple, our troubles and we'd still be better off than any other people on earth. It is t...
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Someday, the realm of liberty and justice will encompass the planet. Freedom is not just the birthri...
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Status quo, you know, that is Latin for the mess we're in.
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There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.
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Christmas can be celebrated in the school room with pine trees, tinsel and reindeers, but there must...
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Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.
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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 ...
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While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.
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Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere.
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Someplace along the line the audience discovered you. In my case it was playing the Gipper.
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If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, India...
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We might come closer to balancing the Budget if all of us lived closer to the Commandments and the G...
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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 ...
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Let us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is.
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If you've seen one redwood, you've seen them all.
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We are for aiding our allies by sharing some of our material blessings with those nations which shar...
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Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.
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Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.
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The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.
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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 wo...
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I recently learned something quite interesting about video games. Many young people have developed i...
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We have so many people who can't see a fat man standing beside a thin one without coming to the conc...
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I will stand on, and continue to use, the figures I have used, because I believe they are correct. N...
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Approximately 80 % of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let's not...
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Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wa...
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More than 20 years ago, President Kennedy defined an approach that is as valid today as when he anno...
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No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never dis...
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Honey, I forgot to duck.
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You and I know and do not believe that life is so dear and peace so sweet as to be purchased at the ...
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You and I are told we must choose between a left or right, but I suggest there is no such thing as a...
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We're in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely in...
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We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker...
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No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.
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I couldn't help but say to [Mr. Gorbachev], just think how easy his task and mine might be in these ...
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We're the party that wants to see an America in which people can still get rich.
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Anyone that's ever had their kitchen done over knows that it never never gets done as soon as you ...
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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 wo...
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Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself ...
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Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a ve...
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No arsenal or no weapon in the arsenals of the world is so formidable as the will and moral courage ...
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We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we may always be...
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We think there is a parallel between federal involvement in education and the decline in profit ov...
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Limits exist only in the mind
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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 ...
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You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.
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The best minds in government? If any were, business would hire them away.
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Some spend their entire lives wondering if they have made a difference in this world. The Marines do...
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Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a ver...
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A vacation is like love - anticipated with pleasure, experienced with discomfort and remembered with...
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The taxpayer -- that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civ...
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Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They're just braver 5 minutes longer.
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The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them right away.
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History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.
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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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Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.
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We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbre...
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All great change in America begins at the dinner table.
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Trust, but verify.
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You can tell alot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
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Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.
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Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself yo...
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There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, ...
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Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it....
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Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.
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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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Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.
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But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high scho...
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It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?
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Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.
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Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'.
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The future doesn't belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.
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When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat.
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It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a strik...
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Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of ...
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We are never defeated unless we give up on God.
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Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.
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The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here ...
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Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our childre...
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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...
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I never drink coffee at lunch. I find it keeps me awake for the afternoon.
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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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Approximately 80% of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let's ...
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Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of respon...
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Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formida...
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There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our pro...
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Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root.
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I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself.
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Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root... Our military strength is a prerequisite to peace, bu...
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Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have...
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Well, I would - if they realized that we - again if - if we led them back to that stalemate only bec...
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There are no easy answers' but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know...
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A hippie is someone who looks like Tarzan, walks like Jane and smells like Cheetah.
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You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
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The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them away.
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Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very...
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People don't start wars, governments do.
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No arsenal ... is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.
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If you're afraid of the future, then get out of the way, stand aside. The people of this country are...
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I know in my heart that man is good.
That what is right will always eventually triumph.
And...
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I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I'm in a cabine...
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I don't believe in a government that protects us from ourselves.
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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 ant...
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Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit.
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Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in...
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Facts are stupid things.
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Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the ...
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Don't be afraid to see what you see.
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Coersion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.
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Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formida...
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My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever...
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History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.
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You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope...
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To sit back hoping that someday, someway, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the cro...
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I hope we once again have reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There's a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: As government expands, liberty contracts.

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I hope we once again have reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There's a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: As government expands, liberty contracts.

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