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A strong nation is one that is loved by its people and, as Edmund Burke put it, for a country to be loved it ought to be lovely.
My dream is that you will travel the road ahead with liberty's lamp guiding your steps and opportunity's arm steadying your way.
The government is currently experiencing withdrawal symptoms, and we musn't feed the habit by injecting more tax dollars into it.
I'm convinced, more than ever, that man finds liberation only when he binds himself to God and commits himself to his fellow man.
It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.
I oppose registration for the draft... because I believe the security of freedom can best be achieved by security through freedom.
When PLO sniper fire is followed by 14 hours of Israeli bombardment, that's stretching the definition of defensive action too far.
Our military strength is a prerequisite to peace, but let it be clear we maintain this strength in the hope it will never be used.
I once played a sheriff who thought he could do the job without a gun. I was dead in twenty-seven minutes of a thirty minute show.
The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom...
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.
Throughout our history, We Americans have been willing to meet great challenges and do what is right when our destiny demanded it.
To this day, America is still the abiding alternative to tyranny. This is our purpose in the world, nothing more and nothing less.
I do not believe in a fate that will fall on us no matter what we do. I do believe in a fate that will fall on us if we do nothing.
Nations crumble from within when the citizenry asks of government those things which the citizenry might better provide for itself.
If we don't want to see the map of Central America covered in a sea of red, eventually lapping at our own borders, we must act now.
Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
Revolution means democracy in today's world, not the enslavement of peoples to the corrupt and degrading horrors of totalitarianism
But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.
Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.
[Write to your congressional representative against the health care reform proposal or] we will awake to find that we have socialism.
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.
We're in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country.
Meaningful work, not welfare, is every American's hope, and we have a continuing responsibility to make those hopes a lasting reality.
Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.
Our opponents see an America in which every day is April 15, tax day. Well, we see an America in which every day is the Fourth of July.
We were told four years ago that 17 million people went to bed hungry each night. Well that was probably true. They were all on a diet.
The Bible and its teachings helped form the basis for the Founding Fathers' abiding belief in the inalienable rights of the individual.
Intelligence reports say Castro is very worried about me. I'm very worried that we can't come up with something to justify his worrying.
Our moral imperative is to work with all our powers for that day when the children of the world grow up without the fear of nuclear war.
I, for one, resent it when a representative of the people refers to you and me, the free men and women of this country, as 'the masses.'
No longer must government be allowed to ride roughshod, absorbing the people's wealth, usurping their rights, and crushing their spirit.
It is the tendency of Government to grow, for practices and programs to become the nearest thing to eternal life we'll see on this earth.
Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.
I've always believed that a lot of the trouble in the world would disappear if we were talking to each other instead of about each other.
My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.
Inside the Bible's pages lie the answers to all the problems that mankind has ever known. I hope Americans will read and study the Bible.
I believe that the most essential element of our defense of freedom is our insistence on speaking out for the cause of religious liberty.
Only our deep moral values and our strong social institutions can hold back that jungle and restrain the darker impulses of human nature.
There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.
We have the means to change the laws we find unjust or onerous. We cannot, as citizens, pick and choose the laws we will or will not obey.
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.
We in government should learn to look at our country with the eyes of the entrepreneur, seeing possibilities where others see only problems
I now have absolute proof that smoking even one marijuana cigarette is equal in brain damage to being on Bikini Island during an H-bomb blast
Jesse Helms wants me to move to the right, Lowell Weiker wants me to move to the left, and Teddy Kennedy wants me to move back to California.
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.
The defense policy of the United States is based on a simple premise: The United States does not start fights. We will never be an aggressor.
Because Vietnam was not a declared war, the veterans are not even eligible for the G. I. Bill of Rights with respect to education or anything.
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.
California produces 40% of America's fresh fruits, vegetables and nuts - the kind you eat. We have had a bumper crop of the other variety, too.