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Throughout our history, We Americans have been willing to meet great challenges and do what is right when our destiny demanded it.
I oppose registration for the draft... because I believe the security of freedom can best be achieved by security through freedom.
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.
Revolution means democracy in today's world, not the enslavement of peoples to the corrupt and degrading horrors of totalitarianism
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.
But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.
[Write to your congressional representative against the health care reform proposal or] we will awake to find that we have socialism.
Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.
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.
The Bible and its teachings helped form the basis for the Founding Fathers' abiding belief in the inalienable rights of the individual.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Someone must stand up to those who say, "Here's the key, there's the Treasury, just take as many of those hard-earned tax dollars as you want."
Elvis epitomised America, and for that we shall be eternally grateful. There will never be anyone else like him. Let's all rejoice in his music.
May all of you as Americans never forget your heroic origins, never fail to seek Divine guidance, and never lose your natural God-given optimism.
Peace is more than just an absence of war. True peace is justice, true peace is freedom, and true peace dictates the recognition of human rights.
Governments don't reduce deficits by raising taxes on the people; governments reduce deficits by controlling spending and stimulating new wealth.
I have learned that one of the most important rules in politics is poise - which means looking like an owl after you have behaved like a jackass.
The British people know that, given strong leadership, time, and a little bit of hope, the forces of good ultimately rally and triumph over evil.
I believe in a sound, strong environmental policy that protects the health of our people and a wise stewardship of our nation's natural resources.
We believe faith and freedom must be our guiding stars, for they show us truth, they make us brave, give us hope, and leave us wiser than we were.
For a time, we forgot the American dream isn't one of making government bigger, it's keeping faith with the mighty spirit of free people under God
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.